What's in the mailbox? 📬 📦
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Erik S
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I have that same style! Feels super nice to use and punches nice letters, but I’ve had bad luck buying tape.
I’ve had a few different rolls and the labels always seem to want to spring back to the curved roll shape. The adhesive isn’t strong enough to prevent them eventually sproinging off whatever I stuck them to.
I guess I should try another roll.
drgonzo1969
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same
JasonWickersham
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Holler if you find some tape that’s worth a damn. I have a few rolls here, but they are modern manufacture, and I do t have the highest hopes.
I had considered a drop of CA glue under the labels…
Erik S
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Will do!
I sold a pedal with some dymo labels on it a while back and did exactly that with the glue. Last time I saw it they were still on there.
owlexifry
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this has always been a problem when i used dymo.
the only way i have found to combat this issue is to use the longest lengths possible:
e.g.
tegendemuur
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Been like a locked-up jack-in-the-box all my life. 7kg did me somewhat good, so now a 13kg weighted blanket to truly defeat my scrawny 70kg restless body through gravity
Sharing, because, considering the demographic here, there's gotta be more like me!
Sharing, because, considering the demographic here, there's gotta be more like me!
tegendemuur
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There's tape from China on Ebay that works.
Erik S
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That doesn't narrow it down much. I'd be surprised if there was a tape that wasn't from China...There's tape from China on Ebay that works.
tegendemuur
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Yeah, I was too quick, too useless.That doesn't narrow it down much. I'd be surprised if there was a tape that wasn't from China...
it's an odd dimension that you can't seem to find in stores here. It's not listed in my ebay purchases anymore, otherwise I'd linked to that.
Got only this...
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Erik S
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There's tape from China on Ebay that works.
I just added this to my Amazon cart. I think I had some vintage rolls of Dymo branded tape, but I haven't bought any new.
Looking at the Dymo website, they only list 3/8" tape - I've probably bought the generic stuff in the past because I was looking for 1/2", but my labeller should work with either size.
vigilante398
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I grew up in southern California so it never got cold cold, but I always felt like I needed to sleep with 6-7 blankets on top of me. As an adult I discovered this was a thing, and my wife got me a weighted blanket for Christmas one year. It's one of those feelings that's hard to describe if you're not in the demographic, but yeah it's a game changer.Been like a locked-up jack-in-the-box all my life. 7kg did me somewhat good, so now a 13kg weighted blanket to truly defeat my scrawny 70kg restless body through gravity
Sharing, because, considering the demographic here, there's gotta be more like me!
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tegendemuur
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@Aleph Null 's Otolith & Troglodyte
My first decal paper, straight from South Korea, because there was no other way to get my hands on film-free.
Two Haible designs (Solina / Crumar tri-chorus/ensemble and Sons of Storm Tide flanger). Will get the Compact A phaser and Tau phaser when the latter becomes available again.
Some old Philips CD4011B (these lack input protection diodes, which make contemporary versions useless in the chorus)
Waiting for 5 painfully expensive TDA1022 for the Haibles, because vintage designs are fun like that.
My first decal paper, straight from South Korea, because there was no other way to get my hands on film-free.
Two Haible designs (Solina / Crumar tri-chorus/ensemble and Sons of Storm Tide flanger). Will get the Compact A phaser and Tau phaser when the latter becomes available again.
Some old Philips CD4011B (these lack input protection diodes, which make contemporary versions useless in the chorus)
Waiting for 5 painfully expensive TDA1022 for the Haibles, because vintage designs are fun like that.
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Fama
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I got some... what are they called, DIN headers? Whatever they are, the thing you put into the small SMD-to-TO-92 PCB's for JFET's (mainly JFET's at least). I wanted ones that fit into sockets - Tayda also has them, but I had already put in a decent sized order and forgot them. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007563971977.html works, btw, if you need anything else it works out fine.
I also gambled on some transistors for cheap, they're all still in production (I think) so I felt it wasn't too bad, plus I was ready to dispute if they seemed fake - in my experience Aliexpress refunds your money quite easily. But measuring with the TC-1 they all seem to check out, not 100% sure about the 2N3904 and 2N3906 since the hFE is ~300 while the LCSC ones measure at ~200, but from what I've read that kind of variance between manufacturers/batches is fine - I don't know what the specs actually say for ~4.5V and 1-2mA that the TC-1 measures at. The datasheets only give the hFE at 1V. Could be fake, but they're also close enough to probably work just fine.
1,60€ for 50 pieces with taxes and shipping included, so not a big loss if they somehow suck when I eventually try them.
I also gambled on some transistors for cheap, they're all still in production (I think) so I felt it wasn't too bad, plus I was ready to dispute if they seemed fake - in my experience Aliexpress refunds your money quite easily. But measuring with the TC-1 they all seem to check out, not 100% sure about the 2N3904 and 2N3906 since the hFE is ~300 while the LCSC ones measure at ~200, but from what I've read that kind of variance between manufacturers/batches is fine - I don't know what the specs actually say for ~4.5V and 1-2mA that the TC-1 measures at. The datasheets only give the hFE at 1V. Could be fake, but they're also close enough to probably work just fine.
1,60€ for 50 pieces with taxes and shipping included, so not a big loss if they somehow suck when I eventually try them.
gtfields13
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What's the Maryland Transparent Overdrive? That's my home ground (PGC)
gtfields13
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A delivery came while I was driving 16 hours across country yesterday.
The exciting part are some SMD's with the reference design for the SSI2100 BBD. If these work, they are setup to take a clock, power, and in and out on a little sub-assembly that can attach via header. I am curious to see how this new BBD sounds. If these prototypes work, I will be offering some up for trade/buy.
The bonehead part (but I'll skip the separate post) are a bunch of SMD adapters for the SA571D companders (which are much cheaper in this format). Possibly a bit funky with using a lateral offset to handle a wide SOIC, and assuming that a set of pin-headers are flush cut and underneath the chip. But all moot because either 1) I failed the measure twice or 2) I nudged the pin header and the spacing for the pin headers is about 0.5 mm too wide for the DIP-16 socket this was meant to drop onto.
southpaw-dd
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Hey there. That is the PPCB Mystery Meat or PRS Horsemeat clone. I wanted a theme that wasn’t meat or horse related so I went with Maryland to honor PRS. You can see the bird inlay copies around the middle.
I did an Oregon theme a couple of years ago for the Benson preamp.
tegendemuur
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Transistor arrays, typically used for vintage Moog repairs. Accidental freebies, as I cancelled these but they were not removed from the parcel. 
OG Tau phaser asks for 11 of these (turned into 20 allpass filters); so I guess this will a somewhat affordable build when I grab the rest with the next order.
OG Tau phaser asks for 11 of these (turned into 20 allpass filters); so I guess this will a somewhat affordable build when I grab the rest with the next order.
giovanni
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Do you have a PCB for the Tau Phaser?Transistor arrays, typically used for vintage Moog repairs. Accidental freebies, as I cancelled these but they were not removed from the parcel.
OG Tau phaser asks for 11 of these (turned into 20 allpass filters); so I guess this will a somewhat affordable build when I grab the rest with the next order.
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tegendemuur
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No, but I did mail the guy to ask when he's doing another run. A bit bummed he's not replying, yet shipped my order a few days later.
I just grab some of the needed NOS in each monthly order, because these things aren't getting cheaper.Would be cool to put two Haible's in a box, ala..
