MOTM

On Monday 23 August 2004 05:52, Paul Schreiber wrote:

> a) pseudo-intern Charles Stella is in-da-houze for a
> 1-week stay. He will kit up 60 of the MOTM-510s, and
> solder (hopefully) 28 pc boards for assembled backlog
> (about 1/4th of the total). Everyone cheer Charles on as
> he slaves away over a hot iron while I force him to
> listen to my CD collection.

Poor guy. ;)

>
> b) I'm building the "golden sample" MOTM-480 VCF module
> this week, in order to verify the layout and BOM before
> turning it over to the stuffing folks. I am having 100
> boards stuffed with the resistors and axial caps (about
> 128 parts), but not soldered. BTW: this set of 100 is the
> *total run*, meaning when gone, it's 'vintage'. There are
> ~34 left, so consider getting one if not on order. 2 VCFs
> on 1 board, what a deal :)

Oooh, tempting! 
Why won't you continue the 480 Paul? What's wrong with this 
module?


> d) NOTE!! The rotary switch on the '510 needs a 9/16" hex
> nut driver. This is an "oddball" size (a 14mm will also
> work). You may want to start poking around to see what
> you can use to tighten this nut. I suppose if I need
> future rotary switches, I can use this same family of
> switches. It does seem silly to spend $7 on a nutdriver
> to use *one time*, but that's the problem.

Victory!! I found the 9/16 in my Xcelite set. :)

- Robert