The ultimate DIY? A Stax SRM-T2!

[Kerry]

Here's another seller that I've used.

They have reasonable selection of hook-up wire if you poke around their store.

20-AWG Mil-Spec Wire 9-Colors 10-Ft-Each, 90-Ft-Total - eBay (item 230414847920 end time Jan-19-10 15:49:38 PST)

I've bought some 22-awg silver plated hookup wire from them recently.

[kevin gilmore]

Thanks kerry, that is exactly what i'm looking for.

I'll use normal stuff for the filaments.

Edited December 23, 2009 by kevin gilmore

[spritzer]

I do have a lot of ES-1 wire left and solid core is great for filaments. It's also supposed to be pure silver...

[swt61]

The story I got was that it was once Prince Edward's personal tea set.

[kevin gilmore]

http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/t2chassis22.jpg

http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/t2chassis23.jpg

I hate soldering these cables. 4.5 hours so far on the 3 of the 4 sets

[Pars]

Must be nice not having a home decorating unit (HDU) around to nix working on the living room floor

Those umbilicals look like fun...

[Kerry]

Yeah, I don't know why it is so painful to solder the umbilical cords / connectors.

Very nice job though

http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/t2chassis22.jpg

http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/t2chassis23.jpg

I hate soldering these cables. 4.5 hours so far on the 3 of the 4 sets

[kevin gilmore]

Must be nice not having a home decorating unit (HDU) around to nix working on the living room floor

Those umbilicals look like fun...

OH are you wrong. Thats the floor in my office.

The living room floor is one inch thick solid oak. Scratching that would be a really

bad idea.

I'm a slob and i can prove it... (give me a few minutes to upload these gems)

http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/mess1.jpg

http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/mess2.jpg

14 mm rectilinear fisheye

Edited January 7, 2010 by kevin gilmore

[spritzer]

Holy crap!!! Any particular reason why you hanging onto a 10+ year old Creative DVD drive or two?

[kevin gilmore]

Holy crap!!! Any particular reason why you hanging onto a 10+ year old Creative DVD drive or two?

Warning, don't do this unless you know what you are doing.

At one time i had a couple dozen of those. I take them apart for the laser diode, which

on the creative phase rewriters are about 400mw... I make very dangerous laser

pointers out of them.

These days, i do the same thing with 1 watt green diodes.

[spritzer]

Hmmm I should have a couple of those sitting around somewhere... *evil scheme brewing*

[Dusty Chalk]

Laser-etched cake? Laser-etched front panel? Pet branding?

[Les_Garten]

Laser-etched cake? Laser-etched front panel? Pet branding?

Don't forget Laser Etched Retina...

[nattonrice]

That's a very big apple.

But the red based thing to the bottom left of the apple that looks like a tachyon cannon is even better =D

[kevin gilmore]

Its a baby's arm holding an apple... What do you want from life... The Tubes

(painted about 25 years ago by a now famous artist)

What Do You Want From Life, Tubes Lyrics

The rca tube is a 7295B. Very rare.

[kevin gilmore]

machined from a solid piece of teflon, will add the mounting holes tomorrow and

make a batch. Hole diameter is 18mm which exactly matches the he90 jack so

everything will be symetrical.

http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/staxjack1.jpg

http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/staxjack2.jpg

http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/staxjack3.jpg

[Voltron]

Holy shit that is hawt!

[luvdunhill]

machined from a solid piece of teflon, will add the mounting holes tomorrow and

make a batch

looks very nice! Will you cut them apart after the fact and program an array?

[Dusty Chalk]

You know, that'd actually be pretty cool if he didn't (cut them apart).

(I fully expect a "oh, that's just stupid, you can't do that, you'd cut off all the breathing from anything underneath it...".

But still, it'd be neat looking.)

[kevin gilmore]

looks very nice! Will you cut them apart after the fact and program an array?

That is exactly what i'm trying to do right now. First two tries at replication ended

up with the parts on top of each other.

[spritzer]

Woot!!!

[Beefy]

HEH, those pins look familiar......

I think I like the larger diameter of Marc's jacks a lot better, but the all-in-one construction on Kevin's version is great.

[luvdunhill]

That is exactly what i'm trying to do right now. First two tries at replication ended

up with the parts on top of each other.

is this g code? or is there a special way to do step and repeat?

[Nomad]

Is this what you are looking for?

Rapid Electronics - Cables & Connectors

Sorry, only UK... And they seem quite expensive...

Hey, Birgir just point me to this thread, after a long absence in which I missed all this (horrendous timing, really). I think he is hoping that I won't kill him for tracking down a T2 and not telling me. He is so wrong... I'm just waiting for him to finish all his projected DIYs... (actually, that might not work for me... I'm likely to end dying first of old age).

Anyway... this is about the "only UK" comment. Living here, I would be happy to help with any component that might be sourced only in UK. Now or in the future. Just let me know.

Cheers and good luck. I'll keep going through the thread now.

[spritzer]

Guess I'll have to sleep with a knife under my pillow now. Stupid gun laws...