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i
good afternoon i am doing extra stream here because i had some extra 
work come up that i would like to get working on i'm kind of changing 
my plans as you may recall i was working on assembled module
was the middle path one thirteen and the transistor radius are at the 
oh twelve and i counted out parts for two of these transistor mixers 
but i am missing some of the jack sockets i need to do this so i 
figured i could
only with my current parts to one of them and i would set these aside 
after having countered out these parts and work on the other stuff 
that's on my list but then just this morning i got a an order from a 
retailer for ten of these
oh eleven transistor mixers little bit surprising i don't really sell a 
whole lot of these so okay now i have the chance at some more and i had 
to do a careful calculation okay how many do i have in stock answer for 
and on i have these two that i was i having process getting ready to 
build them but i wasn't
planning to build them quite so soon and i can't yet anyway because i'm 
missing these jack sockets
and then how many more do i need what parts do i have what parts am i 
going to have to order so it turns out that
if i can finish these two and build for more then that makes ten that i 
can fill my order ideally i would build a few more so that i'm not 
going to run out in my own stock for people who actually buy them 
direct from me and so and the the main limiting thing is actually the 
pants in
addition to the ones you see here and the ones that are already 
committed i have six more on the shelf so i've put in an order for more 
parts and the jack sockets if i'm lucky should arrive monday and i can 
deal with them maybe even on-stream then and the other the other live
eating factories the panels i've put in an order for twenty more of 
those but it'll it'll be a few weeks before i get them so my current 
plan is i'm going to guess as far as i can setting up six more of these 
and then the only thing remaining that i need will be the jack sockets 
which should come monday or tuesday at the latest and then i will just 
having
time to get everything put together and ship it off within a reasonable 
lead time for my customer and that will bring my total stock to twelve 
and then i have sell ten so i have already on my online store cut the
the amount of stock that its allowed to sell to two so there are still 
two more of these that i actually have in stock and could ship out but 
any others will have to wait until i get more and more panels and can 
set up some more of them so that is my agenda for today i'm going to 
get as far as i can with these
with these with expanding the current batch of two up to be a batch of 
eight and i've i've added another color of pen here i'm going to use 
purple to record the the parts that i add to this checklist for for the 
six more assembled so just to try and keep everything organized
jd
first thing i'm going to do is put labels on these bins because i now 
have several different sets of bins in circulation
and i just have to go through here and find maybe they're already 
sorted find six more of these ones that say or one one
and i'll be adding those to the up to the bins
now i saw just as i was logging into twitch
to set up this stream
i saw that one of my buddies the culture is streaming so if he still is 
by the time that i'm ready to sign off i may also attempt to raid 
although
there's a good chance i mean its going to be pretty late for him in 
the philippines already at this time and even later by the time i'm 
done today so there's a good chance he will not be still
still online when we get to that but
something that i can try i've never actually done a raid on twitch and 
i don't really understand how it works or anything but that's how we 
learn
i've no idea how many people are tuned in if anybody
it seems there's no one else in i or c chat so i may be just talking to 
talking to the wind here but
i can address you in the future if you are watching the recording
now was basically the time that i want to do this so on
i'm not spending a lotta time on building up obvious streamers at such 
and such time or anything
i guess its friday night in europe right now so
it'll only be the
most hardcore of
geeky people who have nothing better to do who are watching in real time
and i don't even know what time it is in the philippines right now
not sure exactly i think of most of east asia as being roughly the same 
time zone which would put this right now
very early in the morning







there we go that's six labels of the kind i want





now i had
after the site here these two that i've already worked on and one of 
them has a note in it saying its missing
six jack sockets but in fact when i'm done here i'm with the
current rounder for work i'm going to have five that are missing six 
jack sockets so rather than
or actually cause i'll have seven so rather than making six more labels 
or notes i'm going to change
change the note i have

to say this will be the one that has just going to note the one that 
has the jack sockets and then all the others
i will note do not
so those go off to the side
and now i can get everything in order here

see if i can find enough space now not all six of these will 
necessarily be in view on the camera to
are all conveniently located for me
and then its the usual thing
i can go down on my list and
first thing is axial ceramic capacitors

and pulling them
out of the bin that is off on the side
to the extent i can
yeah


on these are assembled too so i can use the ones that are in poorer 
shape
and i probably
had better do that
so these ones that are in relatively good shape will put offices
yeah



the usual ones that
i can use myself but to me
don't look quite as nice
reserve those for for my my assembled builds which is what i'm doing now

you know the ones that are kind of banter whenever
if this were a project that needed more of them then i would grab them 
out of those spot bins
okay
and the large large capacity the large film capacitors

read legal ones

i have the opportunity to empty bag here

huh
i had some



next will be the
electrolytic caps



to the end
four
six
hey
ten
twelve hello mrs baker





alright
i don't know exactly when you tuned in but
the deal here is that i got an order from
one of my
retailers that they want ten of these transistor mixers
and i don't have ten of them in stock and i don't have all the parts to 
make ten butter
i ordered a bunch of parts and those should come in on monday or 
tuesday at the latest
and so i'm going to make as much progress as i can today
on
getting the parts ready for that order so that i'll be able to build up 
the modules
once i get the other parts
this means a bit of a change in plan like the
other modules i had in process are
going to go on hold for a few days because
those are things that i'm not actually going to run low on very soon
so
that was the schottky diodes right there
and probably off screen or just knocked over a stack of
bins and had to deal with that
but there we go
and machine screws and nylon washers i think i'm going to skip for the 
moment because those will come in later
and i need power headers




one of the gotchas with this particular module is that
the page this is this is for a built yeah that's one reason i'm bumping 
it up in priority because i
i make a little more money on the builds but also i need to do some 
more work on them so
so i need to step lively to make sure everything
is ready for when i get those those missing parts
i
it is interesting that the irctc client is not showing me anybody in
in the channel even though i've now heard both from you pitch and from 
my
and for mrs baker so
that means the irish sea client at least right now today is not doing 
the one thing that i really wanted from it which was accurately tell me 
who's connected
but i guess that's another thing just to keep on the watchful waiting 
lists of
whether its really going to work or what

here are the transistors
which give the transistor mixer its name
six of them
huh
i've commented before
there's not a lot of difference between different general purpose 
transistors these ones in this this project are the
five away dates
and in the
middle path i use the three nine or fours
which are very very common sort of workhorse
ted transistor
there are basically differences in the oh and now it says you both 
joined no
i don't understand how it determines that
as i've said it it seems that twitches chance
he's kind of like i r c internally but not really exactly
anyway the the five away dates have a higher gain
which generally makes them sorta better behaved you might call them 
higher quality
on the other hand they are more sensitive to reverse voltage
in the middle path that's an issue because the
the sine shaper in there really needs to put some reverse voltage 
against those transistors and so the three nine forest which are a 
little more rugged it works better for that
five away dates
are actually not made anymore at least not in exactly this packaging 
which is the kind of package i wanted
so i went and bought when they when it was announced that they would 
stop stop selling them in this form
i i did a lifetime by father
i guess it was a little over one or two thousand dollars worth
which should be a number of years worth of
of my usage and influence i've not even dug into the the box that came 
in from the lifetime buy i'm still working on one of these smaller 
little bags from before that
so i'm not going to run out too terribly soon but
it was sort of a reminder of mortality right then
nothing's going to last forever
and at some point before i if
if i'm still in business and still think that i'm gonna want to sell 
these transistor mixtures by the time that i leave i finish though so 
that big box then i'm going to have to look for an alternative
okay
five channel resisters
two of them in each module








the
the
the two point seven k is next
one of those in each
the
the
the next is four points seventeen
and that's another one where i only need one per module
the
the
the
the nexus five
nine k which will be in the same pin here
should be
five point nine k
okay i'm not seeing it and that means its probably ok here we go no oh
should have seen these four point okay here are the five point nines i 
should have seen i had these four point seven sutter
would be good to use at this point but i'm not going to go through and 
pull out all those ones i just cut
the thing is i i've mentioned this before but i i want to use the ones 
that are just bag loose in my own builds
because they're a little less nice for the
customers who buy buy kit

but i guess it all evens out eventually


i see that the next item on my list is twelve k and i think those are 
similar story so i'm probably going to put them both on the same chunk 
of tape
yeah
its no surprise that the parts that go in the transistor mixer
or in that situation because i think what happened was i when i was 
developing the transistor mixer
i put in an order once i hid
determined what parts i needed for it i put in an order for all those 
parts and that was the day that i didn't
look carefully or know what i was getting regarding the ugh
regarding the packaging so all the parts that i ordered specifically 
for the transistor mixer didn't already have on hand
ended up being
being the bulk pack




and then since the transistor mixer doesn't sell a whole lot of 
assembled modules i only very gradually working my way through
those bags apart
fortunately i mean these
these kinds of parts don't really go bad
if its a few decades old and its the right spec you're ok to use them
so these are five point nine k and twelve k











alright next is twenty two
alarms


twenty four twenty seven
a whole bunch of
different sizes and different values in that same range there
here's the twenty trees


huh

i'm just trying to find the end
go okay i need five at least for everyday
wow
two
three
four
five
six


huh





color code for these is red red black red brown
that's two two zero
and then two more zeroes
and then the final brown is for one percent tolerance

the next is forty seven okay
the
and i need for these
for each
the

the
the
the
and okay now for the panel part
i am certain angel run low of these but i'm pretty sure i have enough 
for this current batch here
the part of the thing with potential amateurs
is there are all these options that apply to them like exactly how long 
is the shaft
and these are the are the connections at right angles to the shafter 
should they go
they go in line with it
and are we talking about a knurled shaft or
they don't call them gmt but one could certainly call that kind of 
rebooted
i
or is it like d shaped or is it smooth like this one at least once
and then you also have the issue of taper
that when you set the when you when you turn the knob to the middle of 
the year
the range is that really electrically the middle
the thing is if you've got something like a volume control
you don't actually want it to be linear you don't want
fifty percent on the knob to be fifty per cent of the year
electrical power because that's not how people's ears work
we perceive audio volume and actually most human senses are logarithmic
which basically means they go by multiplication instead of addition
and if you double the power that means a three decibel increase it 
doesn't mean
it doesn't mean it sounds twice as loud
so like the difference between one and ten is the same as the 
difference between ten and one hundred
these particular parts here
are designed to take that into account because they are basically being 
used as volume controls on the mixer
so you don't gift
you don't get a linear relationship between the opposition and the the 
power output you get this technically exponential but they call it 
logarithmic which is really the opposite
ah
and they also call it audio taper
and then to further confuse things its not actually really easy to 
manufacture it with a true
logarithmic or exponential taper so they they kind of approximate that 
with what is easy to manufacture and
the listener's senses are approximate enough that that doesn't really 
matter that its close enough
so
that's one of the things that
that screws people up when they tried to try to buy
it comes like this
the other thing that's a huge issue is that okay you go through the 
datasheet and the data sheet for these parts will actually be a single 
data sheet that covers like hundreds of different styles
and there'll be a sort of a secret decoder of this not very secret but 
there'll be a decoder at the start of how do you construct the part 
number for exactly the part you want based on the
based on the options he wants so these ones here are picchu sixty p 
dash d one b s three ca one hundred k so picchu sixties that's 
generally the sort of part p means its got the right angle connections 
d one b i'm not sure what that is
i think it has to do with like with how how tightly sealed it is you 
pay more if its going to be more resistant to dust
b s three describes that its got a pushing and the shaft is a certain 
length and style
see i think is also part of that he means its audiotape or one hundred 
k means its one hundred kill on track resistance
but if you sit down and figure out the part number for the part you 
want then you will go to mouser or whatever and say i want such and 
such part and they say well its not in stock we can order it for you 
thirty seven weeks lead time
because they
if you place the order for that then they will send the order to the 
manufacturer and the manufacturer will actually sit down and 
manufacture those parts to the specifications or semi custom made
so if you want if your end they'll also have a minimum order as well as 
that thirty seven a week lead time
so if you want to like be able to specify a part and actually be able 
to find it on the shelf
you have to go looking for well what are the common sets of options 
what what do the distributors actually stock
that's one of the things that keeps it to
keeps it real so to speak for the
a small time manufacturer
that you you can look at the data sheet and decide what you want and 
but you have to look at the distributors stock also
to figure out what you can actually have because there will be only a 
few out of those hundreds of different part numbers that they actually 
routinely stock because those are the ones that are sort of semi 
standard
this is another thing that really screws up the people who buy or try 
to buy pcb and panel
because
it may not be clearly described in the instructions that come with the 
pcb and panel what kind of part you need and then even once you know 
what kind you need
you can have an interesting time trying to source it

i guess one solution is to just to build your business big enough that 
you can
afford to set the terms i mean if i were buying ten thousand parts or 
probably even just one thousand of them at a time
then i wouldn't need to deal with the distributor i would be dealing 
directly with the factory but i'd still have to wait thirty seven weeks 
so i'm not sure its exactly thirty seven weeks but its you know some 
large number like that something that translates to months
so
it becomes necessary to
really plan ahead carefully and that would have been true even before 
the dreaded rona
all the more so now
i'm currently waiting for the
the shipment of knobs from taiwan
which is on something like six months i guess it was four month lead 
time when i placed the order earlier in january
and i'm just hoping that my stock will hold out until laugh


hello extra more
as i mentioned
twitch i rc doesn't really seem to reliably tell me who's connecting 
when
so on top of all the other reasons i mean not necessarily great people 
promptly when they tune in but i'm still trying to do that
especially with an unscheduled stream like this one alright now i'm i 
have run out of those little spring washers so i'm going to have to dig 
some out of another another bin
ah
actually let's see if i have any spare right here on the bench
doesn't look like it now
oh actually yes i have a couple of spare entire parts
so i think i can
maybe i already did that
there's the joke
about odd
a lawyer who
which kind is this
there's a joke about a lawyer who you know he's part of a long line of 
distinguished lawyers and they've had
they've had their offices in the same place for years and years and 
years
and okay there's one
his father before him and grandfather before that
and
then there's a sprig stone doorstep going into the office
and over these many many years
they all have the traffic of people
walking in and out of the office has gradually worn down
dip in the surface of the stone
and it needs to be replaced right so he
gets a stonemason to come in and take a look at it and give them an 
estimate on how much it'll cost to replace that doorstep
and he doesn't like it the estimate its going to be a lot more money 
than he really wants to spend so he says okay look instead of actually 
putting in a new stone
how about you just flip the stone over ok i mean its just a 
rectangular block so we could get another hundred years of use out of 
it if we just flip it over
and so
stonemason goes to work and just because he's blocking the front door 
of the office they can't get any business done in sign so its you know 
hours and hours of banging and chiseling away out there
towards the end of the day there's a knock on the door
lawyer answers it and there's the stonemason with a cheeky grin on his 
face and he says your grandfather thought of that fifty years ago
and that's a
running joke in my family
and its sort of what came up there with that bit of hardware and i may 
have the same issue with the sam
lock washers
so we'll see yeah
yeah its worse with the lock washers okay
i need five more lock washers it looks like
so i'm going to have to dig those out of another bag
let's see
where can i pool lock washers from but they won't be missed too soon

laughs

alright these era of one or the other bins have very similar parts here
now to some extent this is only postponing
the problem but
usually especially when i put in a large order there'll be like one or 
two extra hardware sets so over time
i expect any deficit to want to disappear
there we go

and good for these



then in the far future if i find that there's a really significant 
deficit i can like actually buy more hardware sets
because these items are available individually although its only 
practical to to get them that way if you're buying like one thousand at 
a time
you don't really want to go to war
go to a hardware supplier and try to buy one or ten
you end up paying way more for them that way

but whatever you may think of the industrial revolution
this idea of interchangeable parts is kind of nice for that
if i say i need and not
there are hundreds of kinds but there are not millions of kinds and it 
is possible for me to get a description of the kind of not i want
and then going by it and be pretty sure of actually getting one that 
will fit
that's kind of nice
alright put this back on the shelf then come back and screw all those 
things in
discussing here


hi
alright so next
screw all these enough to hold
i mean i will just have to unscrew them in the fairly near future but
having them
screwed together so the hardware stays in place is useful it saves 
having to dig through the bins for it later










that was off alright so next its going to be horizontal single turn 
trimmers

i'm probably getting close to the point
these
probably getting close to the point where i need to split this being a 
trimmer pots into more than one bit because its not
really the most convenient having to dig through it every time but now 
what
now this is tied in a way i don't think i would have done so that may 
mean that i have more in here
another bank i want to open first
yes
let's open those first
i don't know how i would split that bit maybe single turn vs multi turn
cause i do use a whole lot of multi-terrain



hello commander root
as i said at the start of the stream
i'm basically changing my plan here
because ah
i had set aside the
transistor mixers to work on later because i didn't have all the parts 
but then i got on
i got an order that came in for ten assembled
i
ten assembled transistor mixers i don't have all that in stock and i 
don't have
even all the parts for it although i'm close
so i'm bustling around here getting everything as ready as i can and 
i've also already put in the order for missing parts
so that i hope that i will get the remaining parts on monday or maybe 
tuesday and
then i can just quickly and sort of crunch mode
get those ten assembled and ship them off to the to the customer

transistor mixers are
i really wanted to have a mixer in my line so that i could be that much 
closer to having a complete line
but they haven't been hugely popular as modules
because generally people think that utility modules are not sexy even 
though they are pretty much absolutely necessary and
the best modular players the ones who make the best music
and do it on the strength of having good utility modules
so i guess you could say that's more server an advanced type of module
even if or when people think of what's an advanced module they think of 
the the really complicated ones

yeah here's another chance to use up some luck
use of some of the bulk pack resisters

three
six
nine
twelve

i dunno if maybe i should have a ritual for when i finish one of these 
bags of inventory
on the whiskey tribe channel
anytime they they empty a bottle which is not all that often because 
they you know they try small amounts of many different whiskeys instead 
of drinking the same ones every time but every time they
empty a bottle they hold the empty bottle upside down and hum its 
raining men
and there has never been an explanation as far as i know of why they 
chose that particular song for this ritual
but
maybe i should have something like that for the
bags resistors
cause it is kind of a celebration as it means that i've
had enough business to actually use up
potentially a significant number if a given item
and i especially am going to want to celebrate when i empty one of 
these bulk bulk packs tiny resistor bags like these three thirty k m's
i dunno what's the best song to use for that

i mean i guess i could hum that song that is that i used for the filler 
animation cause that's one that i wrote and won't raise any copyright 
issues
not exactly the most catchy humble bolton but
that may be ok
page says its amazing
ah
i don't know which part is amazing
the its raining men ritual aura
any of the things has said about them
about resist your bags
the whiskey ritual yeah well they're interesting people on that channel
it has inspired me to drink more whisky which
i don't know if its really a good thing but
there we go
actually i've been trying to cultivate a taste for rum i think that 
romney is going to be the next big hipster thing
after whiskey
and i don't know if having been on the ground floor will help at all but
sounds amazing thank you
okay that's all the items on the main list here but i'm also going to 
count out a few other items yes i'm a rum drink or what kind do you 
like pitch
i think one of my favorites so far is havana club seven
which is pretty easy to come by right here although in the states you 
can only get the the puerto rican one
pcb panel knobs
mrs baker likes gin better page says my partner's trinidadian and her 
deck converted me likes eldorado fifteen year yeah i have not tried the 
fifteen year i have tried the twelve and i quite like it
and i actually i also like the younger el dorado rums more for mixing 
than four era
for other than for sipping
i
better make some progress here okay pcbs and panels
pc bs
cut the wounds and
morphy wants okay

well from trinidad of course that's also where
angostura bitters comes from and i really like that








knobs
my alcohol cabins is just rubbing gene actually like the true hipster i 
am
as for gin and i quite like the
tanqueray rang pour gin which is made with rangpur limes its supposed 
to be like an anglo indian style of gin
and that i mean one could just sip it straight over its also good for 
whatever
mixed gin drinks you know i just grabbed these blue ones but i don't 
want to these are the one
assemble modules they get great ones
and i'm going to live dangerously and not test these because i won't if 
they're bad i will know as soon as they suck
as soon as i tried to assemble them

although i do have to make sure there is actually
screw in there as well
at all

i'm still on the mainland chinese on grey knobs because i bought a big 
batch of those and its taking a while to work through
but i do have to keep an eye on the numbers especially
now that the taiwanese manufacturer has a long lead time
that before i run out of these i have to place another order
and then i'm probably going to go through our
probably going to have to go through the ah
the whole thing of having a grade that doesn't quite match the older 
grey and so on
mrs baker says that sounds good presumably the gin sweden has an award 
winning gin that has cardamom in it way better neat than anything else 
i've tried other than amarilla i have had am ruler but i didn't
i don't really remember it very well
there was a group of
a group of my friends from from victoria
who
called themselves the edifying fellowship of the book and
we used to have a whole big thing of trying unusual and interesting 
liqueurs and liquors and amarilla was one that we tried
as i recall it was bait it basically just tasted like caramel
although i to be honest i think by the time we got to that one i'd 
consumed so much other stuff that
ah
i may not have been in good shape too to remember it
so yeah i think my other favorite rum
at the moment is florida kenya
the older ones though i think i had i forget what i had most recently i 
guess it was the florida canyon fifteen
and that was quite nice that had like a fair bit of nuttiness to it so
like macadamia nuts in particular

but part of the fun thing with rum is its very diverse there
all kinds of things that really in any other spirit would be called a 
different spirit
of late into the category of ram
that's true of whiskey too to some extent but even more so i think
with the room
and of course you get the whole pirate association which is always cool





scotch with oysters page says was a unique alcohol experience for me 
yeah
i would like to try
i want to try oysters with oyster stout
that will be fun
alright so normally i wouldn't put these in the bin until i have tested 
them
don't really want to take time out to test them right now i guess i'm 
just going to put them in the tray in the bin
as a way of remembering that they're not really fully tested or quality 
control yet
although i think at some point in the past i did tests their whole 
batch because i wanted to know how loudly i should complain to nature
complaint didn't really do much good good
if i wait a year or two or two until i'm actually ready to use them 
before complaining then of course they lose
they lose track of it and there's no hope of getting satisfaction


knobs
okay
i think that is basically about as much progress as i can make on these
for today what's the defect rate on these interesting question that 
particular batch there i think the defect rate was about two per cent
the last batch that i got from that manufacturer was a batch of blue 
knobs and the defect rate overall for that was i think about six 
percent which is way too high and there were a couple of trays that if 
you looked at just that trade would be well over ten percent now i have 
not won since switching to the taiwan
the manufacturer i have not seen a defective one yet
ah so i'm hoping that defect rate for that is going to be very much 
lower
and
but it kind of remains to be seen i e once bitten twice shy i'm going 
to be doing one hundred percent testing on them
for a long time
because of course even though its its a lot of annoying work
its much better to to detect the the problems myself soon rather than
waiting and having the customers be the quality control
i am nearly ready to
to log out here but i want to see
if my buddy is
is still streaming because if so we can attempt to do the raid thing

and that means having to go through
no
looks like there's no
no raid for us

so in that case i think i'm going to just
say thanks for watching and
hope you enjoyed and have a nice day
and then i will go to the
filler animation briefly and log off and buy
i
yeah hm
i