Today I managed to successfully glue all Otomixer bits together.
The whole thing is rather solid and heavy—I did not expect it to be that big.
But the glass vial I also have to use with the prototype are big themselves, so they in a way dictated the scale of the Otomixer.
Yesterday I soldered a small board with two stereo 3mm jack sockets and cables: there is only one cable connected to both input channels, so de facto it is a stereo socket providing only mono output. But this is enough for me and for the project—anyway, the equaliser inside the otomixer has only one channel as well, so it just needs to be the lonely mono.
After gluing everything together and just after I started filling all gaps and holes with putty—I realised I confused the side that the vial block is pointing towards! It is mirrored—the other way round than I designed initially. But it turned out to work not bad at all, if not even better. At least for a left-handed person...
Tomorrow I wish to start impregnating mdf and priming it. I will see how long will it take, but maybe I will also be able to put the first layer of white paint...
On Friday I will have the main panel laser cut in the Southampton Row basement. Then it will only need to have the equaliser mechanism with the potentiometers fitted, glass vials mounted and sealed dry, as well as a pair of rails installed at the end of the Otomixer arm, where the compound will be extracted. Not that much...
