What's in the mailbox? 📬 📦

jwin615 said:
Not the mailbox, instead a local estate sale. Walked in during the last 15 minutes.
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Grizzley 48 in sander.
Offered them a buck 20(1/3 original asking, though most estate sales do half off the last day) and they took it! These guys are $7-800 new and I'm sure that price will go up given overseas manufacturing and all.
Has a stand but I removed in for easier transport. Old man put a nice support bolt in to reduce flex.
I meant to go by first day as it was 10 minutes from the house and there were a TON of tools. Old man had a huge self made lumber mill with a 48 in saw ran off what looked to be an old farm all tractor engine geared up. Probably 35-40 ft long sled leading up to it.
Just got a new set of belts in today. Gonna clean it up, sand down and oil the angle table and find a place for it. I think I have a spare variable speed controller somewhere I can mount on it.
One of the tools that was on my "if I ever have a reason or find a good deal" list. Will make easy work of polishing enclosures and truing the face. I think some of my etching struggle has been getting a true flace surface. No more!
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This is one of those tools I didn’t know I would miss as much as I do, used it all the time at work and there has been more than one occasion the past couple of years of years I was like “damn I need a disk and belt sander.” Good find.
 
Paradox916 said:
This is one of those tools I didn’t know I would miss as much as I do, used it all the time at work and there has been more than one occasion the past couple of years of years I was like “damn I need a disk and belt sander.” Good find.
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I'm excited to have it. Will bee good for sharpening as well, I hope.
I've worked at a couple of shops with them and you can't undercut the value of the disc sander for fine sanding. Being able to work further in or out on the disc to fine tune something. Not something I'll use daily but definitely going to be nice to have when needed. I'm a big right tool for the job guy, though guilty of using my share of crescent wrenches as hammers, and a belt sander will help avoid some more dangerous propositions.
 
Batch o’ tayda enclosures. Ordered these on Aug 25 so it seems like the shop is mostly back to normal. My design files had a couple of issues that I didn’t see for at least a few days so you could probably even subtract a week or so to get a ballpark on turnaround.

First time ordering a few of the newer colors:
  • candy pink is a bit less saturated and deep compared to some of the other candy colors I’ve seen. The pictures on the tayda website are pretty accurate imo.
  • White hammer looks great. Looking at the photos online I wasn’t sure if the metallic tones would be more silver or gold. It’s definitely gold and I think fits well with the scarab/dung beetle concept
  • Blue hammer is not as textured as the white but still a nice option and I’m happy with how well the tiny dial lines show up. Double white print on this one.
  • Not sure if glowing light green is new but it’s satisfyingly fluorescent
Having these enclosures already painted, printed, and drilled really helps motivate me to finish some some projects thatve been sitting on my workbench for months 😂

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jimilee said:
I don’t know what it does, but I need to have one, too.
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It's a MIDI-controllable stereo sample player purpose-built for pedalboard situations. Oscillator Devices is based in Germany, but ships handfuls of its non-DIY projects to its US vendor each month. My Minerva cost me like $159 USD shipped, which unbeknownst to me also included the 32GB SD card for its samples and configuration. Not bad!
 
EisengesisFX said:
I'd be fantasizing about something like this existing for a minute, but then discovered it actually does a few months ago. Sold some utility pedals I wasn't using to fund this.
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Oscillator does some cool things, and has some of the best doom/stoner pedal demos I've seen. Or had, I guess, the old ones are still there but understandably it seems the focus is more on their own pedals now.
 
Band of Dans said:
Batch o’ tayda enclosures. Ordered these on Aug 25 so it seems like the shop is mostly back to normal. My design files had a couple of issues that I didn’t see for at least a few days so you could probably even subtract a week or so to get a ballpark on turnaround.

First time ordering a few of the newer colors:
  • candy pink is a bit less saturated and deep compared to some of the other candy colors I’ve seen. The pictures on the tayda website are pretty accurate imo.
  • White hammer looks great. Looking at the photos online I wasn’t sure if the metallic tones would be more silver or gold. It’s definitely gold and I think fits well with the scarab/dung beetle concept
  • Blue hammer is not as textured as the white but still a nice option and I’m happy with how well the tiny dial lines show up. Double white print on this one.
  • Not sure if glowing light green is new but it’s satisfyingly fluorescent
Having these enclosures already painted, printed, and drilled really helps motivate me to finish some some projects thatve been sitting on my workbench for months 😂

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FWIW mine have now been "on queue" for a week (ordered on the 9th, so I guess only four full work days in Thailand), although I have a bunch of Matte Black and Matte White which apparently can make it take longer. So there is definitely still a backlog.

Edit: Well, they all changed to "in progress" today, so take that as you will. Not too long backlog at least before drilling.
 
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I ordered another 10 of the Jan 5751 tubes, and a couple of Raytheon 12AU7 from the same seller . They sent an extra Ray 12AU7 🤘 . They sound fantastic in the driver-cathodyne pi position in my GT120 clone. I also ordered a number of a 12##7 I want to experiment with in the driver-dc coupled cathode follower position I have been putting on the end of tube preamps, that vendor also sent an extra one tube as well🤘

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This is actually two sets in the photo.... I've been wanting a good bolt-thru set after have using a small Klein Modbox sae set a ton. I found this set from Williams, one of the Snap On brands. Perfect for pots, stomp switches etc. The finish is fantastic and I will likely use these over Peper's Rocket Sockets from now on. Sadly there is no 1/4 thru-bolt set, but I ended up ordering their full 1/4 drive set too. The 1/4 set I inherited is limited and missing pieces so I will be happy to keep that one in the basement shop.

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lowpitch said:
I bought an IC pin straightener. It straightens pins. It saves barely any time and it was most definitely overpriced but I regret nothing.
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I got one of those a few weeks ago after I saw a youtube guy using one while he did some repairs. I thoroughly enjoy using it. Beats the hell out bending the legs manually
 
drgonzo1969 said:
I got one of those a few weeks ago after I saw a youtube guy using one while he did some repairs. I thoroughly enjoy using it. Beats the hell out bending the legs manually
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I've never had much issues bending legs manually but this is more consistent for sure and prevents overbending. I like it.
 
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