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I stopped by the hobby shop to get some paint for infilling the engravings on my new sammichSID kit. I got a Sharpie paint pen and now regret that choice. The result is bubbly, uneven, and in a few cases went outside the lines. It looks terrible. How should I go about redoing this? I imagine that I can sand the surface to take care of the outside-the-lines problems. How about the bubbles? What paint should I have used instead?

Could someone point me to a reliable source for 60/40 solder with a water-soluble flux core? The local shops don't know about it and I can't seem to figure out if Jameco or Mouser carry it.

This is incredibly stupid. I would much rather put a Keyrah board into one of my now SID-less breadboxes.

Relisted and sold for $450.

What does "now" represent?

Does anyone here know whether or not Mark Mothersbaugh or any of the other Devo members has a SID synthesizer of some sort? I'm listening to the latest Devo album "Something for Everybody" and I seem to hear something SID-like now and then, especially on track 12 (March On).

When I saw this post, I thought you were going to suggest running current through the two pins that MIDI doesn't use. It's interesting and full of potential trouble.

I still want to get my hands on the masks and make exacting duplicates. It shouldn't be too terribly expensive to tool up for a 30-year-old design.

Is there some way to shift that website into English mode? My German isn't good.

Who has the masks for the various revisions of SID? I wonder how much it would cost to have more made.

Julian, I found this, which claims to be your work. Would something like that work with the MB-6582?

I was reading the Wikipedia article for the Elektron SidStation and found a strange statement that there are aftermarket clones of the original SID chips. What are these aftermarket chips and who makes them?

Paia used to carry a dirt-cheap rackmount box without a faceplate that was decent enough. I have a rackmounted Paia Fatman and I didn't want the guts just hanging loose. For a rackmount panel of the MBSID, check the regular .fpd file at http://ucapps.de/midibox_sid_manual_fp.html and drop it into a 3u template in Front Panel Designer.

Are these sized for the aluminium desktop chassis?

Nifty. Maybe it's time to semi-officially take over custody of JSynthLib since nobody else but the Midibox community seems to want to keep it up to date.

Yeah. I'm wondering about that too. I'm thinking of going to FPE to finish things up, but I don't have the chassis yet.

So, if you can run MBSEQ on an iPad, how do you get midi connectivity?

I have an SX myself, but it's missing the keyboard cable and one of the keyboard latches is broken. Anyone have spares?

Don't cannibalize that SX!

A dollar per note is more like it. Where can I find out more information on this scheme?

I think Ponoko is the route I'll take. All you Dremel-users ought to check out the Proxxon line of rotary tools. I've come to the conclusion that Dremel is okay as long as you don't want to use attachments.

I found them in the latest Jameco catalog.