Quote from: bluebunny on February 07, 2019, 10:14:56 AM

Quote from: duck_arse on February 07, 2019, 08:44:02 AM

Quote from: njkmonty on February 06, 2019, 10:18:04 PM
I dont have a clue what this thread is about now!
however my mammoth order arrived!

mammoth? I thought they went under ......

Try to keep up, mate.  This thread is about chia seeds, which promote hair growth.  But not on ducks.

Well, now that this thread is about imports from China, hagfish, AND chia...

don't forget the hagflish. or the slime!!

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/hagfish-slime/581002/





i am vile and perverted, i'm obsessed and deranged, i have existed for years, but very little has changed...

Quote from: duck_arse on February 07, 2019, 08:44:02 AM
mammoth? I thought they went under ......

Naaahhh....  Mammoths float.

hahaha i sure do!!!!! lol



"...They ALL float down here, timmy..... ever seen a grown man naked?"

~pennywise bridges, air traffic clown molester

Quote from: PRR on February 07, 2019, 12:40:08 AM
> I hope we (UK) get a decent trade deal with the USA ... we get raped of the US on imports as it is now and delivery time is stupid. The other way around UK to USA is easy.

I can confirm that I get used books from the UK to the US just as cheap, *including shipping*, as buying from the US.

These older books are nominal $1 and ~~$4 shipping each. Which is cheaper than _I_ can mail a book across town. I assume this fairly large UK book seller has hammered a lowball deal with a bulk shipper to get packages to LaGuardia. The delay is US Customs and then US Post Office which must final-leg deliver for free, without enthusiasm (or tracking).

I've had success with UK booksellers as well (going through abebooks), including shipping  around $10 cdn. Doesn't get here overnight but they've always shown up.
dave

last time i ordered from this vendor, was 35 bux shipped for the same lot, a couple months back... maybe 6.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/10PCS-Hammond-Guitar-Foot-Pedal-Effects-1590B-Die-Cast-Aluminum-Box-Enclosure/153350988139?hash=item23b46e616b:g:PZAAAOSw7Spb0srj:rk:2:pf:1&frcectupt=true

now its 44. ain't march yet, neither.

Quote from: duck_arse on February 07, 2019, 10:27:48 AM
down off an elephant mammoth?

Easy.  You use a step-ladder like everyone else.

Picked up kit this afternoon.  It was in a "cassette" flat rate box.  I ask the lady at the front for a schematic.  "Hang on, I'm just the accountant", she said.  An older guy comes from the back, his name is Ken.  I asked again for a schematic.  "We don't provide them".  Why not, I queried.  "People never ask for them".  I explained that what I wanted was a treble booster, and was sold a clean booster.  I'll probably need to make it into a high-pass, I told him.  He finally agreed to email me a copy.

Got home, opened bag kit was in.  No instructions.  I guess people never ask for them either.  *sigh*

Downloaded and printed instructions.  Very, very poorly written.  Very little detail.  No warnings about static/FET handling.  Oh heck, just look for yourself...

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1353/1185/files/00353_-_0003MAM_-_Mammoth_Electronics_-_Instruction_Manual_-_J201_Boost_Update_03.pdf?1999269188156177513

Quote from: EBK on February 06, 2019, 04:35:17 PM

Lordy, this looks like Donald Trump's nightmare--when you grab 'em, they bite back!

Quote from: Ben N on February 08, 2019, 03:08:29 AM
Lordy, this looks like Donald Trump's nightmare--when you grab 'em, they bite back!

They made a movie about that.  I don't recommend watching it.


Safety first! 

How To: Travel with a hagfish
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/HowTo:Travel_with_a_hagfish

Quote from: Sooner Boomer on February 07, 2019, 06:38:50 PM
Downloaded and printed instructions.  Very, very poorly written.  Very little detail.  No warnings about static/FET handling.  Oh heck, just look for yourself...

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1353/1185/files/00353_-_0003MAM_-_Mammoth_Electronics_-_Instruction_Manual_-_J201_Boost_Update_03.pdf?1999269188156177513

Oh my. The circuit board image... is it a photocopy? I am genuinely confused as to how they managed to get that image back into a digital PDF.

Graphic design has always been one of Mammoth's strengths, which is why this is so surprising. Everyone expects that BYOC is going to have thorough, clear instructions that are nevertheless created using the dream-team of MS Word and Paint. But Mammoth can do so much better than this.

This thread has taken a terrible turn and I can't imagine mammoth wanting anything to do with it 

Quote from: Kevin Mitchell on February 08, 2019, 08:56:06 AM
This thread has taken a terrible turn and I can't imagine mammoth wanting anything to do with it 

All of the criticism has been constructive. They have been justifiably disparaged for their service for a few years now (I have some personal anecdotes of my own that I could add, but it'd just be more of the same), and I know it's caused plenty of internal turmoil on their end with a few key employees leaving, so it's not going to come as a surprise to them. But it's only by reading & internalizing threads like this that they have a chance at turning things around.

I was referring to the off topic posts of hagfish and chia pets lol

By the way - your blueshift chorus has been my favorite PCB purchase by far. Absolutely amazing work. It was much fun to put together. There's simply nothing else that compares.

Quote from: Kevin Mitchell link=topic=121714.msg1147811#msg1147811date=1549653954
I was referring to the off topic posts of hagfish and chia pets lol

The off topic stuff started with the heated political arguments.  I was merely trying to point out in response that it didn't make any sense to post things that had nothing to do with building stompboxes.  The fact that I had some fun with it was merely incidental. 

I guess I'll take responsibility for triggering political discussions

Quote from: Kevin Mitchell on February 08, 2019, 02:25:54 PM
I was referring to the off topic posts of hagfish and chia pets lol

By the way - your blueshift chorus has been my favorite PCB purchase by far. Absolutely amazing work. It was much fun to put together. There's simply nothing else that compares.

Do take the time to look up Scott Stites' "Birth of a Synth" site if you haven't already.  Scott has nice profusely illustrated and sound-file-stocked page/site on his conversion of the DC-2 into a through-zero flanger.

Mammoth J201 Booster Pedal

Got it built.  When bending and stuffing a 2200 resistor, it vanished.  After suitable cursing and searching, I couldn't find it.  Dug through parts pile.  Couldn't find another.  Found some 47oo ohm.  Bent one to stuff it, and it vanished.  Again, much cursing.  Got the next one bent and stuffed, soldered.  Bent another to go on top.  Soldered one end, burnt my finger with soldering iron.  You got it, more cursing (I'm getting good at this).  Got second leg stuck down.  After assembly, clipped new batteryy in and tried it.  Dead.  Of course it is, power goes through input jack.  Put plug in input jack, now LED comes on.  Dug out guitar and another cable.  Plugged all in.  Works on bypass, dead on boost.  Tired of cursing, tired of playing.  Went to bed

Got back to it today.  Two problems, neither the fault of the booster.  1) I wired it with solid core wire.  It's what I had on hand, I use it for plug-in breadboards.  2) the jack on the end of one of the cables came apart.  Never seen one do that.  Fixed all the wiring problems.  Booster works.  Not a whole lot of gain.  Definitely not an overdrive.  Still need schematic - might make decent treble booster.  Will order stranded wire Monday and re-wire.

hahahahah OP is learning why we swear like electricians

i remember mr k, aka mr kaminski, at windham tech.

i took electronics classes with him after school for a while.

all he ever did was swear, and we were all "@#$%ing peckerheads" lol