well first of all i must apologize to the TS community for my complete lack of courtesy in just plain up and disappearing last year. fortunately/unfortunately people like easyjim have stood up for me and kept people up to date. something that never should have been necessary, but something for which i am very grateful and humbled. esp since i still have a set of jim's 568's to fix.
so just a quick explanation - i've been out of work for 2 years now, my wife for 1. i do have 4 kids (the girls are 14, 14 and 16 so you can guess their needs...) and a mortgage and bills (just like everyone else, but of course i bought my dream boat two weeks before i lost my job and then all of a sudden boats were available for 10cents on the dollar). for me, poverty seems to cause some form of major mental depression and tunnel vision - i just hate being so f-ing broke. drives me nuts. finding money to make the house run falls to me and it wears heavy. my wife just shrugs it off. i just can't seem to...
anyway, i had been focusing on starting a business (electronics related) in january with the akg project able to be a part of that entity. met with my business advisor in early Jan and was told to not even bother trying right now. that had kinda been my plan for the future as far as something to do for a living as well as longterm income for the house. i had been living with that as something real to look forward to and then it was shot down in flames...
i do have some resources coming my way in the next month. so i will be building some prototype pieces.
as to using CKx caps, it has always been my intention to manufacture something to allow owners of these pieces to be used even tho they use a 17mm thread. the one issue i see about basing anything on them is that they are not available often whereas the CK6x series are still in production. the other thing i have planned is the repair of the CKxX caps. they used prepolarized elements that if damaged rendered the capsules useless - like i have 5 CK8X caps that are no good.
so would like to apologize for flaking. i will try to find some time to read back thru this thread and if i can offer anything to anyone trying to move forward i will drop them a line. i am living off my old SCSI windows 3.0 computer and you may have noticed my login has changed slightly - last computer lost a PS and killed my mobo and HD etc etc.
best regards to all, if you have a personal beef write me at nsturtevant1@cox.net and keep it out of the forums. there is no email at the house, i do it remotely at cox, so i don't check it but every other day.
neil in san marcos
fwiw i still have my sony dmx-p01 mixer available for sale - great condition and a beautiful device.
