oh hell yes - I’ll be on the look out for these when after you test and post them!
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I spot elongated holes!
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At this point, I almost want to make an entire case out of Mikrokosmos. Maybe eventually…
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lol - should check out my DOGSCRATCH - its a similar concept but no INPUT - only OUT
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I really need a stereo out like that (although would really love CV on the panning), and I’m very curious to hear what those bells sound like!
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Yes, I’m afraid we’ll have to take away @analogoutput’s Kosmo certification for crime against aesthetics.
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You can also look at @Jos’s version, with more fonctionality, there’s also posibility to add a Time pot like Juanito More with a PT2399 circuit
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Tayda package I expected yesterday arrived:
Resistors I was getting low on, caps I was getting low on, a few special values to finish some yusynth boards, and some pots for the yusynth boards.
Package from McMaster with some thin M3 square nuts for some 3d printed rails.
Saw the rails on reddit earlier this week here:
Printed some out to test…but realized I had no square nuts. Looked for some on Amazon but all the ones I could find were too thick. So gave in and ordered from McMaster. Great price on the nuts and only got dinged for $8 on shipping so price was actaully cheaper than the only thin ones I saw on Amazon:
Seem to fit great. Going to fire up the printer and crank out a bunch of sections to use on my next case. I’m really not enjoying screwing into wood on my current case, but don’t want to pay for aluminum extrusions. So far these seem to work great. Case will need to be a few mm taller to accommodate them but I’m about due to build a new case anyway 
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What a brilliant find!! 3d printed rails. I don’t suppose 19“ rack ears for this would be feasible?
Plenty of cheap thin nuts at the hardware stores if you mod the design and add a bit of WD40
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If you can modify the rails for thicker nuts you can get them cheaper; https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XPFLNBS 100 for $7 with prime shipping. They work fine in my TipTop rails. Finding M2.5 for Vector rails is a lot harder though.
Nice panel!
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There are STEP files released for the rails so they can be customized. Though…I had tried a few of my own designs to accommodate larger nuts and found that it results in either rails that are considerably bulkier (to the point of not being practical) or with plastic that is too thin to be usable.
It’s amazing the difference .6mm can make in this situation! Though - this design solves a lot of the issues my own design was running into by splitting it into parts. That avoids the need for supports (which are almost impossible to remove in this situation) and allows for a print orientation that makes it easier to get strength in the areas that are thinnest.
Though - to be fair the big difference is using square nuts. I was trying to design around regular hex nuts since that was what I had on hand. Once I decided to order square nuts I wound up going for the special DIN 562 nuts since they’ll fit the most things and are the same ones used on my Prusa printer so I can use them there when needed as well. The price wasn’t that much higher than the cheaper square nuts but they’re usable in more situations due to being thinner. The big downsize is the unknown shipping cost from McMaster that’s always a gamble (and why I ordered 2 - 100 nut packs to get the most bang for the buck out of the shipping.)
And…I did order some of the thicker cheaper amazon ones anyway to see if I can make them work Just…they didn’t show up yet even though they’re out for delivery today and the mail already came twice.
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but he makes up for it in big knobs .
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And the Amazon nuts showed up…3 mail deliveries in one day…new record for me 
The ones I got: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B082WHHYHJ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 where actually $7 for 200 with prime shipping. Though listed as 0.1mm wider than the ones @analogoutput posted above.
I’m all for cheap…but in this case I’m much happier with the more expensive nuts from McMaser. The only other thin DIN 562 nuts I found on amazon didn’t qualify for Prime and were $20 with shipping getting 200 of them to me in a week or so. McMaster was $16 delivered for 200 nuts that showed up next day. So…twice as expensive as the cheapies from Amazon…but they’re much nicer square nuts that are both thinner and more square so they work a lot better as captured nuts in 3D printed parts.
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waiting for ages for an Akai audio interface, and a DVI to VGA cable still not here
Last week I found some audio tape in the trash:
So I bought a tape player to have a listen to them:
It has the typical issues: rotten foam, broken belts, melted plastic (there is a small plastic cylinder that broke into small pieces). But also a blocked motor, which I managed to fix. Besides the belts, I was able to repair everything (the belts cost 10€ on eBay, and I bought the player for 20€ delivered, so hum, not sure about that).
Who needs belts anyway:
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Woah, thats rEaLly Coo0oOl.
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Da comrades! The Scottish sleepers hear and awake for mother Russia!
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Mr Dalliard, we’ve been activated!
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