Build Your Own Clone Message Board

No decaling yet....metallic gold enclosure courtesy of Blake & co.

So should I add a horsey-man graphic and really push the limits of good taste?

Always better to push limits imo..
the more ya push em.. the more ya can get away with later on!!!!

Whatever could it BE?

that's a fine-looking mystery box there.

Nice, i really wonder what it is, never seen that board before...

DVM, i'm verifying your TB mod this evening...

OK, good deal, Rej. I decided to build the stock-wired one first--prolly won't get to the TB version for a few days.

Howzis, Phreek? Think this is indiscrete enough?

Its not bad by any means.. however, to push the limits.. i think he is gonna need a penis, maybe even boobs.

How about BOTH? Now, that would push the limits! Would bring a whole new spin to the term "tranny" around here....

OK, eye test for you hotshot DIY Klon-meisters: Find the one non-stock component type in this build (the one carbon comp resistor doesn't count). Dcountry13 is ineligible to participate.

Nice build, but sorry, I believe the LED is on the wrong side


And I'm no expert on this circuit (or any other), but isn't there supposed be another tant or two instead of the electrolytics? Did I win?

Yeah, and way too big!

Nope. Should have seven 1uf caps--six electros and one tant, and that's exactly what I used. But you're warm....

Nice!

Looks great......and yes, I know the answer.

Bazz Fuss. Final answer.

Nice, looks like a Timmy

Diode switch?

Hmmmm, I dunno. SHO booster?

No, not a mod or addition to the circuit. Just talking about a part substitution, something not called for in the "official" Klon BOM. Unless you've built one of these, it's doubtful you will get this. But it's clearly shown in the gut shot....just not very big.

What have you done with that 390nf cap?? looks like a booger in a piece of art!

I won!

And the TB mod works awesomely, no difference at all, i've put both side by side, did'nt notice anything!

Thanks for that mod DVM and the other folks who gave a hand!

I think we have a winner! Yep, a bright green, tantalum booger. DC sent me a couple and told me he's used them in Klon builds with good results. So now I can claim it isn't an exact Klon copy!

Cool. Officially verified now. But it was just like Madbean's TB mod for the Sunking, so I knew it would work....

" it looks like... the doppler radar"

I also was confident that it would work!

Thinking of it, what do i win, one of those cool little booger for my personnal klone that is not populated yet?

You'll have to talk to DC about that....he's the "booger king", and was kind enough to send me a couple each of the three cap sizes I didn't have and couldn't get from Mammoth. When I saw the little green 390n tants, I thought, "Geez, those are pretty cool!" He offered to send me box metal films instead, but I told him I wanted to stick with the "boogers"....

I just bought a load of stuff from DC......., i'll ask him...who knows!

I was just kidding anyway, i wrote that when i was drunk...lol

Yeah, I knew you were kidding--I just wanted an excuse to call Rob the "booger king".

Seriously, with all the stuff you've been buying from him, maybe he'll throw in a free booger or two for ya!

Well there's the tant (taint?), but I can see from here that those diodes are clearly from an incorrect batch...

Here's the little booger: