Powder coating is very chip resistant. Chips are rare and never too large for inserted hardware to cover. Still it's best to drill in bursts so long curls of aluminum cant spin and scratch the surface.
No soldering yet still sourcing parts. Have an insane cart going at mouser. I'm trying to order everything at once for 35 modules. I have all the IC sockets, so those will go in soon.
Working on cosmetic structure so far mainly. Planning out the cases and power supply. I just laid out a power supply PCB for an 8 channel mic pre for a customer that I can scale up to 2.8A per rail buy using a larger toroid (that I already have) that should be plenty for all three cabinets. I am going with a design similar to the dot.com studio cabinets (two 44MU slant cabs and a 22MU straight cab) except with butterfly latches to hold them together and with white sparkle tolex with silver hardware.
Back panel from another mic pre and the larger toroid I'll use in the same manner next to it.
tolex. the blue sparkle roll is to practice on a smaller cab ( a combo amp for the friend who will help me construct and cover the giant cabs) first before the larger ones. I've tolexed before but not with this cloth backed vinyl so i don't want my first time to be with a 14 foot strip.
buttons for the ADSR triggers arrived.
