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First of all id like to say if your on the shit list for building pedals, [edited by admin] has some awesome deals for valentines day  !

I just got done rebuilding the workbench, wish i had pics. damn phone crashed ! anyways i got a industrial corner computer desk and cut 6" off the triangle ends and i got a deal on a 60" vanity... line that up with the big roll out tool box i got for christmas and you got a wall of awesomeness ! wish i could say more for the rest of the garage !    

I need a madbean sticker for the toolbox !

 

anybody ever build or attempt to build a tube delay ?

i was reading about the binson and couldnt help all the crazy thoughts

very interesting

http://tech.thetonegod.com/switches/switches.html

having trouble finding these ic's at mouser
JRC4558D
RC4558
OP275
TLC2202
TLC2272

ANY IDEAS ?

hey gang, i found a super cheap lead on voltage meters. i bought a handful
check it out, and its local !

http://www.ebay.com/sch/tovoto/m.html?item=200884025685&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWNX%3AIT&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

anybody use allelectronics.com
im trying to find a parts house in ca to reduce shipping time

anybody looked into this book ?

http://www.amazon.com/Circuit-Bending-Build-Alien-Instruments-ExtremeTech/dp/0764588877/ref=pd_ybh_5

i recently did some label design for my friend for a Cave Dweller. Turned out he didnt need it so i shoved the label in my jacket pocket. Some weeks later i was at the doctors office and in one of the patient rooms there was a powersupply bolted to the wall with a flexable gooseneck and a led head on it. me and the ole lady were joking around about it and i said if it were to have a name it would be called the Cave Dweller. then i remembered that i had the label in my pocket so i stuck it on the power supply. label reads Giant Cave Dweller wth a cartoon pick of a boy yelling in a cave and a girl with her hand to her ear.
got to love it !   

here is a cool add-on for your breadboard (and its cheap)

https://www.circuitspecialists.com/educational-dc-volt-meter-csm-1105.html

im thinking of upgrading to a bench supply 0-18v  0-3A

thoughts ?
what do you use ?

http://www.mpja.com/0-18V-0-3-A-Variable-Benchtop-Power-Supply/productinfo/9600+PS/

well...
i got my MPJA order. seems like good stuff, cheapist switches ive ever found .36  . 100 led's for 1.50 !
it all looks good, i will know more this weekend
3pdt's and dpdt's on-none-on good to go !

however use extreme caution with dpdt on-off-on, this bastard here is known to the California health and safety code to cause cancer (sticker says so) with-in a 45 mile radius
must be made by santas elves with kryptonite
once again use extreme caution with this bastard

anybody ever use the russian P27 transistors in a build ?
how was it ?
use em again ?

i use a Extech EX420 auto range works well for me if i were to rate it, id give a 8.5

also bought a bunch of harbor freight red dmm's i was suckered in by the transistor socket. POS
your lucky if you can get a single reading off those sockets and the dmm is all over the place. i once took a reading inside a 240v panel and damn thing blew up in my hand ! i will never do that again     -3 out of 10

i once had a Fluke with one single switch, on/off. that was it, full auto range. so easy even a retard could use it. i loved it, lost it in a fire.

anybody ever use pulse diodes ?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/100pcs-D310-USSR-Germanium-diode-RARE-/261156050609?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cce1d16b1

check this out. i got to many projects on the table.
somebody will love this

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-HEATHKIT-A7-TUBE-AMP-/271135339176?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item3f20ecf2a8

in the intro to the song Sorrow (Pulse), what the hell is David Gilmour using to get that modulation ?
he is doing something to the guitar but its hard to tell with all the laser bs going on. almost looks like hes karate chopping the trem real fast. i love all that growl in the intro.

im sure those  pickups are hotter than a branding iron. but it should be do-able on a pos street guitar

im looking for a 75k linear pot, cant seem to find one. im not going to spend 9.00 at mouser

WHATS YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE LOCKED TOPIC ?

By almost any standard available, political correctness is the dumbest self inflicted wound that has ever subverted a society. It is thought control camouflaged as courtesy. It is un-Constitutional in its very real ability to suppress Constitutionally protected civil liberties like Freedom of Speech, but, since there is nobody in formal charge of and responsible for political correctness, there's nobody to indict.

It discourages open public discussions of critical national issues, lest we offend someone. And there are social penalties for being politically correct that never see a courtroom, permit no self defense and are implemented without mercy and without appeal.

We are watching the fury of political correctness as the momentum builds for gun control in the wake of the Sandy Hook ES tragedy. It is a "consensus" built, much like the Tea Party movement, on adrenalin, without necessarily any clear focus or long term thought. Yet if you object, you're as much a monster as the emotionally damaged young man who executed 20 children after first planting several slugs into his mother's head.

No sane person can condone that action. Yet sane people who watch the forces of political correctness fan the fires of public anger at all gun ownership in this country, are seeing, first hand, the power of political correctness as they are branded as troglodytes, fascists or worse by the politically correct. The media helps fan the flames, but the political correctness doesn't generate within their ranks. Clearly, they don't have the stones to stand up to the politically correct. QED.

The issue of Sandy Hook and other mass murders in recent years is complex. The problems transcend guns, but guns are taking the brunt of the anger because there are no simple solutions to the real problems and the politically correct won't even let us discuss those issues candidly or aggressively to try to find some synergy and solutions. Such discussions might offend someone.

Dealing effectively with the mentally unbalanced is a very slippery slope medically, legally and socially. Too complex a problem for a population that needs their voting results color coded so they'll know who won. It's a lot easier to let those with strong gun control opinions drive the train since they're already focused and, after all, it was bullets that killed all those people. It's a lot easier to let the politically correct rant and rave rather than actually thinking, evaluating issues in context and coming to solutions that actually make sense.

We have become a very stupid people and, as Pogo put it: "We have met the enemy...and he is US!!!" Grab your ankles, gang. This is going to get ugly! The dismantling of the Constitution is almost complete. Just a few lug nuts left. The media will undoubtedly applaud the actions of the politically correct when it all happens and will be the most surprised people on earth when it dawns on them how they'll be treated in a nation that doesn't have "Freedom of the Press" protections built into its infrastructure.