The 2025 Hit Me PIF thread - registration closed (update)

CheapSuitG said:
First off, thank you all for the kind words!

She stayed another night, they’ve been giving her IV antibiotics every 6–8 hours and checking her vitals every 4 hours. It was more precautionary than anything serious just to monitor her and keep the antibiotics on schedule.

Good news is she’s been cleared to go home. The discharge process is taking a while 4–5 hours due to workers’ comp paperwork and being understaffed but she will be home soon.

On my end, I was “working from home” today and managed to get everything sorted, packed back up and shipped.

There are some really great items in there, I’ll snap a pic of what I grabbed later tonight and share it.

FYI: While I can neither confirm nor deny the presence of any white washers, I can confidently assure everyone downstream that there are absolutely NO Avocado Green or Harvest Gold washers in there!

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Crap, what I'm going do with all these gold and green washers now!
 
CheapSuitG said:
I’m starting to think this box might be cursed! First people getting sick, and now this delay.

MrsFancyDressG is a vet and was bitten by a cat on Monday. The cat was in pain and not happy to be there, a younger tech was holding it with heavy duty gloves. The cat was about to break free and go for the tech’s face, so my wife stepped in and took the hit to protect them. Both of her hands got pretty torn up.

Cat bites are especially nasty, their teeth are covered with nasty bacteria and prone to infection. She went to urgent care right away and was started on antibiotics, but she’s allergic to penicillin, so the alternatives aren’t as effective.

Unfortunately, they didn’t work and the infection started getting worse. So the next step is the ER, we went in yesterday, she admitted, is taking synthetic IV antibiotics, but needs to be monitored so it is at least a two day hospital stay.

That said, "working" from home tomorrow and will get it out!
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ok but... is the cat okay???
 
Shoot sorry!

I thought I’d taken some but looking at my phone now, I only have close ups since I was basically using it as a magnifying glass.

I’ll post some tonight.

Until then, feel free to shame me 😅
 
I managed to slide the box into the dining room and get it open (one side of the box is busted open btw) using my grabber I was able to rummage through it, I'm afraid I'll have to replace the box it's in pretty poor shape. Once I've settled on what to keep, I'll post some pictures.
 
Ok kids here’s my haul:

A very cool enclosure
Rotary switches
Some “warp pipe” bezels
Awesome knobs
A smattering of capacitors
Tagboard
A handful of pots
Neurocyton Preamp

And a limited edition, 1 of 1,free range, NOS movie poster from the hit film “Outbreak: The PIF Box”

Seriously thank you all for the incredible stuff. This was way beyond what I expected. And I really hope my additions don’t suck!

As for my PIF earlier this year, a young trans musician moved to Colorado and sold or traded a bunch of her gear to make the move easier, mostly pedals since they’re smaller. Unfortunately, she got scammed and only 1 out of the 5 pedals actually worked properly.

I repaired what I could and built her a replacement for the rest, she was willing to pay but couldn’t take it. She also showed interest in learning how to build and repair pedals, so I put together a PIF box of my own to help her get started.

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