[wideload]

Was I the only one who envisioned black powder coated components as giving extra ”punch” to the 1812 Overture?

 

[Paladin79]

DD IS the Queen of the Night. Check it out......

I know it well, we just heard both of her parts. We own several versions of the Magic Flute.

 

[filthy mechanical]

Plastic? Nope.

But soon you'll be able to see what crazy things we can do with steel.

Edit: I should do a longer post, because manufacturing is evolving. 3D printing has advanced to the point of being feasible (and cheaper) for some internal parts. And we'll be exploring what we can do even more with stamping.

I support more steel use! Less aluminum! And go with ultra-deep drawing ultra-low (specify RH degasser) carbon steel that you can only get from 2 (soon to be 3) companies in the USA. /s

Nice to see stamping is making a comeback, I have some of the old fabricating and machining books from my grandfather from the 50s and what they did then compared to what we do now is impressive. Good example is gas welding melting the base metal; now all you see is brazing only melting the filler and arc welding.

 

[RickB]

Plastic? Nope.

But soon you'll be able to see what crazy things we can do with steel.

Edit: I should do a longer post, because manufacturing is evolving. 3D printing has advanced to the point of being feasible (and cheaper) for some internal parts. And we'll be exploring what we can do even more with stamping.

I guess you're indirectly answering my question.

 

[Jason Stoddard]

I support more steel use! Less aluminum! And go with ultra-deep drawing ultra-low (specify RH degasser) carbon steel that you can only get from 2 (soon to be 3) companies in the USA. /s

Nice to see stamping is making a comeback, I have some of the old fabricating and machining books from my grandfather from the 50s and what they did then compared to what we do now is impressive. Good example is gas welding melting the base metal; now all you see is brazing only melting the filler and arc welding.

Stamping is incredibly freeing when you stop using it like NC and start using it like stamping. The constraints of NC stamping (pay per hole/pay per feature/complex features unfeasible or bad/complex shapes cost big $, etc) and NC milling (pile of chips as big or bigger than the product, machine time cost, pay per time, pay more for complexity, etc) are hard to unlearn.

But...we're learning.

 

[JooLoo]

On the latest schiit stream the idea of a ragnarok with tube intigration was thrown in. Id love to see this something like the freya plus intigrated into the ragnarok 3 where you can switch between solid state and tube and if not just using lisst so 6sn7. Class A would be great if possible. The minute it launched id find a way to buy it within the week.

 

[RickB]

Was I the only one who envisioned black powder coated components as giving extra ”punch” to the 1812 Overture?

All I know is, despite what @ArmchairPhilosopher says, black looks cool and elegant and I'm glad that I finally got my first black Schiit.

Will it be the last Schiit I ever buy? We all can guess the answer to that question.

 

[Paladin79]

A proper breadboard.

 

[RickB]

A proper breadboard.

Saltineboard?

 

[filthy mechanical]

Stamping is incredibly freeing when you stop using it like NC and start using it like stamping. The constraints of NC stamping (pay per hole/pay per feature/complex features unfeasible or bad/complex shapes cost big $, etc) and NC milling (pile of chips as big or bigger than the product, machine time cost, pay per time, pay more for complexity, etc) are hard to unlearn.

But...we're learning.

I am willing to bet you are running into issues where the skills and machines to perform the stamping is not as common either anymore, so having the skilled people to help guide design is substantially harder.

Edit:

Seems one of the books passed down is actually available, "Forming and Bending Kaiser Aluminum"

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Bo...kaiser+aluminum&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title2

 

[Paladin79]

On the latest schiit stream the idea of a ragnarok with tube intigration was thrown in. Id love to see this something like the freya plus intigrated into the ragnarok 3 where you can switch between solid state and tube and if not just using lisst so 6sn7. Class A would be great if possible. The minute it launched id find a way to buy it within the week.

A flexible integrated amp In class A with power tubes would be wonderful but expensive unless one goes for 30 watts per channel. Personally I would never switch to solid state but I am just being truthful.

 

[StimpyWan]

A proper breadboard.

You've been shopping at Cracker Barrel...!

 

[Jason Stoddard]

A proper breadboard.

That is...amazing.

 

[Paladin79]

You've been shopping at Cracker Barrel...!

Shhh bread, crackers. The same thing only different.

 

[Ripper2860]

Unleavened Breadboard.