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Oh crap, over 50 models? That's definitely an administrator's nightmare!

Doh! Wish they shipped to APO AP

The prices at markertek are quite nice! I didn't realize they had them for such nice prices.

As usual, my ignorance was showing and you were right luvdunhill. How toasty is the heatsink at 1.3amps running thru it?

I'm also looking at picking up a new soundcard and I've basically narrowed it down to either the Asus Essence STX or the Onkyo SE-200 LTD. The Onkyo uses the WM8740 DAC while the STX uses the Burr-Brown PCM 1792A dac.

Only way I've personally seen to organize everything is to be OCD. Everyone I know except for those select few have the "misc shit" category

Initially setting up WDS was quite a pain but once running it was smooth sailing for me. However, my network only has somewhere on the order of 5-6 models so it's probably more difficult for you to do the same. On the flip side, vista deployment was much smoother than windows xp and I'm looking forward to trying out Win7's depolyment services. You've probably already read about it, but it sounds like the windows 7 guest mode would be ideal for your situation assuming it makes it to final release since some folks are saying it got cut from RC + final.

I downloaded win7 RC on technet a few days ago and it runs rather well on my laptop. Looking forward to the actual release. Did you try the microsoft deployment tools or creating custom xp install images?

There's a good bit of capacitance there, but otherwise it's about right I too was a bit surprised at how large it really needs to be when I looked into building one.

Smeg, that's an awesome idea; I'll have to go to my hardware store and try to find some myself Swt: Showing great restraint there

Looks like a fun meet! That F5 looks like it's coming along just fine

Computer crashed so hard it didn't boot up (freeze and reboot on POST), troubleshot for about a hour before giving up and going to local comp store to pick up new motherboard. Came back home and tried powering it up...and it booted. Keeping new motherboard because I suspect this motherboard is on it's way out, and planning out a core i7 rig.

A lathe? Very nice, I have yet to try my hand at one but can think of a few uses for one

It's actually just one joint, on the corner...but thanks nonetheless! The toughest part of the resin was acquiring it, the fact it was in japanese didn't help

I picked up some fiberglass resin that I will be using as wood hardener. Tested and works well, though I will only be using it to seal the insides, the veneer glue should seal the outside well enough I think.

To be honest, I expected to have more issues than I did with my first and second test pieces. What did you have issues with when veneering?

I did some stain testing the other day and totally forgot to post pictures, so here you go: Dark mahogany, reg. mahogany, and keyaki. It's hard to tell but the dark mahogany has a nice red glow on the figure, I rather like it however the stain is a bit dark. For a later project I might thin it out some and use it. For the speakers I'm sticking to the natural color. Here's a closeup of the corner. The joint line is extremely thin and is very difficult to see, especially with a slight chamfer on the corner.

Just checked it out and the discount rates still look like they're available.

It'd be cool to see another hc'er coming from Japan there

A combined length of over 300feet of hookup wire. I should be set for a while now.

Actually, patience is not my strong suit. I cope by working on multiple projects at once, so I can distract myself from frustrations by being productive on something else. It's worked well for me so far No turntable in the near future, I'm mostly satisfied with cd's and digitial audio...maybe in the distant future? AlanY: Totally forgot about the MDF expanding from the moisture, I'll definitely watch out for that on the test.

Tanjoubi omedetou gozaimasu!

So what's the cool place to crash at? I think I've managed to get myself a ride to Cali!

You assume correctly sir, I'm using a Jasper circle jig. I was somewhat worried about the metric -> imperial conversion until I found their calculator on their site. Unfortunately the tweeter cutout will be .5 mm larger than the tweeter, but I'm hoping that some generous primer and paint will close that gap. I was hoping to test that with this test baffle, but completely fubar'd it this time. The method you describe does make sense, I'll give it a try on my next test. Thanks for the tips, they're much appreciated!

Did trial run of the baffle cuts today, first I tried to do the tweeter: As you can see, it didn't work out too well. The stopper on the router got loose halfway and as I went the router went deeper and deeper until at one point it just went right thru the piece. After getting a feel for how tight was "properly" tight, I went on to go for the woofer. It turned out a bit better this time, although I went too deep and the cutout got loose when I went to complete the circle. Next time I'm going to make sure to leave a tiny bit left over so the piece is intact, then route that out on the other side. After placing the woofer in, the frame was acceptably flush with the baffle. It's difficult to see, but the frame has a bevel to it, so getting a proper measurement of the thickness was a bit difficult. I went with what the specs gave me and it ended up alright IMHO. Lessons learned: 1) Check router stopper is properly tightened, then check again. 2) When doing the cutout, leave a bit of wood so the piece doesn't go loose at the end. 3) Working with measurements given in metric is a genuine PITA when all your equipment are in imperial units.