cool you got your big knobs …
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So the mimeo was like that taste the pusher gives you to get you hooked, huh? MakeNoise is like IBM in the 80’s: no one ever regretted buying it.
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Yeah, I got this cheaply enough that I found it hard to say no. I neglected to mention that I also got two Pressure Points and a Brains for relatively cheap. I was thinking I’d resell them, but they turn out to be really nice, so who knows? Once you get into the flow of selling as you’re buying, it’s really not that bad. I just resisted it for the longest time because it seemed like such a hassle. Reverb and the local Postal Annex make it not entirely awful.
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Speaking of big knobs, I put an 05 on the Gate Grinder’s Rate pot. It’s big enough to fully obscure the label, so it works out 
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Not big enough.
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So I am really hoping the 3rd time is the charm with this damn VCO. The first two that I have built do not work at all and I cannot figure out why. If I can’t get this one to work then I’ll just buy a eurorack VCO pre-built from someone and call it a day. I don’t know why THIS module in particular has been particularly problematic for me, but it has. For some reason the LFO is also giving me problems. I think the LFO and at least one of the VCO’s were both built using lead free solder that required a much higher temp and I think that worked against me as I kept destroying eyelets or not getting a good enough joint. Since I switched to the leaded solder most, if not all, of my modules work. (It could also mean that I’ve gotten better at soldering…dunno.) Unfortunately, that means that my LFO, Performance Filter, and 1 if not both of my VCO’s are probably headed to the scrap pile. 
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The dang molexes got me on my first VCO (also my first module). Had a hard time with the crimping tool and getting the fittings to seat properly. I ended up just wiring directly to the pcb and fixed those problems, unfortunely the next thing I did, like some others here, was plug into the “not power” jack and fried the ICs haha
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Here is my haul for today
No post for me…
Rob
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I mastered the crimps during the last live stream, on my tool there is a little ridge that the terminal can rest on, with the tool mostly closed before crimping it’s then easy to pop in the wire and then crimp it up…
One of those “Hell Yeah”, “YeeeHaaww”, or " G T F I " … moments.
Rob
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Crimpin’ aint easy but somebody gotta do It right? 
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Try blaming your tools, always a good strategy! I can recommend the Iwiss crimper shown here
Having never done Molex before, I only had to practice on three or four terminals before getting consistent good results with it (the 1.6 slot seems to work best for me)
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i got the big ratcheting crimpers at first and had no luck , very frustrating . then I bought the the iwiss simpler [ and cheaper ] ones like you show and after a couple tries it became much easier .
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[Potentially pornographic and completely sophomoric image retracted by original author.]
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I ordered two each of the Trill hex and ring capacitive sensors. They arrived today, and here I’ve laid out one of each for the photograph.
For more information see the thread I created last month in DIY.
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Today is opening day (with restrictions) here in the Bay Area of California, so naturally I was one of the first to visit Anchor Electronics when they opened at 7:30AM. Mostly just got a bunch of wires, headers, and switches. Also some of my beloved flat diffused yellow LEDs, 100 100Ks, 100 104s (box type), and five 95 cent patch cables:
Felt like a luxury.
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