Davo

After staring at my currently-nonfunctional Paia Fatman, I've decided to put it in a new chassis. C0nsumer's Fatman Plus with PT-10 chassis design appears to be the cleanest. It's also about as complicated of a spaghetti job that I'm willing to approach. Anyhow, I think I've almost worked out C0nsumer's design into a Front Panel Designer file. Is anyone else interested in a set of panels?

See this page on using an ammeter. Set the meter to measure DC amps and follow the example in that page. Yes, replace that rectifier. When things get melty it's a good idea to replace them, even if they seem to work okay.

Pardon me if I'm late to the game on this, but I think optional rack ears is the way to go. Cisco does this all the time with their routers: sit the thing on a table or screw on a pair of rack ears and slide it into the rack. This is one of the things that wound up bugging me a bunch sometime after I bought a rack panel for my MBSID. I wound up wanting to put it on a gutted C64.

Huzzah!

I just noticed that this thread is titled "...fleatmarket". Did someone have Sweeney Todd on the brain?

Digineural has a new set of knobs on the way. Thanks!

What have you guys been doing about windows in panels? In particular, does anyone have any ideas on getting a piece of perspex cut to the right shape to fit the MB6582's LCD window?

You could get the PEC11 series encoders that Smash used to sell for about half the price of the ones you list. See here.

Here are fifteen white opaque Albs "Waldorf" knobs. I forget who I bought these from, but it was someone doing a bulk order here. I decided not to use them because I found some knobs I like better. Fifteen is the number you need for an MB6582 and fifteen is the number you'll get from me. They're clean, unused, and unblemished. I'm in California (west coast of the US).

Whoops! I forgot to say that it's the aluminum front panel that has yellowing silkscreen. It doesn't bother me too much except that it no longer looks good with the knobs I have, which are stark white Waldorfs that are still stark white.

Sorry to reply to such an old thread, but it's been a long time since I was on here. This is EXACTLY the sort of knob I've been looking for for a long time. Thanks for pointing this out. 26 pence seems a decent enough price too.

I pulled out my still-incomplete MB6582 to see what parts I still need to get. I was a bit startled to see that what was previously white silkscreening is now yellowish. Has anyone noticed this? Also... are .375 standoffs acceptable substitutes for the 10mm standoffs specified?

Just wanted to say "hi" to everyone after being away for several months. I might have a semi-working Paia Fatman for sale soon...

I'm very impressed with the USBtinyISB dongle from Ladyada. See http://www.ladyada.net/make/usbtinyisp/. It even has clean support for Linux. Has anyone here used it? Does anyone here know if it's possible to come up with something like this for use with PICs? I have a hard time dealing with Windows and I can't seem to find any other decent burners. I'm still looking for a decent general eprom solution. A dongle like this for PICs would be very very nice.

I should have stated that I used the wayback machine. I managed to make a composite of all the versions that were archived, but there are still lots of missing pics. That's why I'm looking for the .doc or .pdf.

Has anyone here fiddled with calliopes, particularly homemade ones? I'm trying to locate an article written by Dave Kerr around 2001 who documents everything you need to know to make an air-powered calliope. His last-known website was http://www.webone.com.au/~mydav/calliope.htm. There's supposed to be a .doc file floating around that has all the information and pictures in it.

Regarding the use of JB-Weld -- When Altitude redid my panels (the silkscreeners still couldn't get it right), he drilled the corners for me and tossed in some nifty knurled allen screws. He and I found that if only the corners are drilled, then positioning the standoffs becomes MUCH easier.

Oops... I'm not sure what I saw.

I just noticed that one cannot get to the project website from the mainpage. Would someone please fix that?

Before the chatroom broke, it used to display how many people were in there at the time. Now it doesn't. Is there some way to get that functionality back?

Hmmm... So, how many midibox meet-and-greets has there been so far besides in Germany? I'm on the west coast of the US...

Okay, so how does one edit http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/user_projects to point to this new project?

Got some SIDs today with a "LUFTPOST" sticker. Whee!

Check out some of the freely-available modular synth front panels for a test. If it works out, I'd like to get a couple Wogglebug panels from you.

Someone was tooling up to do some garage silk-screening to redo the messy job that was done with the first round of panels. Who was that and how are things going?