ADA: Ask Doc Anything!

[DocsMachine]

Are you going to reply to my email offering you to take my money in exchange for your goods?

-If I haven't already, I meant to, and if I haven't already, I'd like to. I know I was behind on three or four PM conversations on the old board, were you the stocks, the stocks and gas-thru, the 'Cocker halfblockery or the 10-oz tank ring guy? (Sorry, my encyclopedic knowledge tends to end at screen names vs. email/shipping names. )

Doc.

[lew]

-Metal, rock, prog rock, occasional hair metal. Hate the "growly" stuff, not a big fan or most death metal/speed metal.

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They'll occasionally play new FFDP and the like, but that's only like, twice a day- the rest basically nothing newer than Sabbath-era Ozzy, Jimi Hendrix and the apparently-mandatory twice-hourly playing of Sweet Emotion.

So I got the cheap player and loaded it with stuff that's worth listening to.

Doc.

Don't worry, the day off bit was tongue-in-cheek.😁

I always figured Doc from TWB to be a fan of GBH, Subhumans, Major Accident, Ramones, Iggy and the Stooges, Maiden, Megadeth, and so on.

And "growly" metal is awful.

[dartamon]

Are you going to reply to my email offering you to take my money in exchange for your goods?

[DocsMachine]

Theoretically, if you were to have a day off, what would you do? Again, theoretically.😎

-As I've said before, Doc is a dull boy. Over the years I've given up most of my hobbies, and here in backwater Left Armpit, Alaska, there's pretty much zero social life- no concerts, the only plays anyone bothers to put on are crap like "Annie get your Gun", I'm really not a movies and TV sort, all the bars are not much more than dives, attended only by power drinkers and recreational pharmacists, and virtually all my friends are married and have children, so there's no such thing as a spontaneous trip to the race track or the car show or something.

It really is a matter of working in the shop on customer stuff, and then taking a break by.... working in the shop on my own stuff.

Point in fact, if I were independently wealthy, and didn't have to take in work to make the ends meet? I'd [i]still[/i[ be working in the shop. I have three major car projects that I'd love to work on, at least one of which I think would make a fun Project Binky style video series.

Sorry, that's what I am. I build things.

Also, what's your musical preference?

-Metal, rock, prog rock, occasional hair metal. Hate the "growly" stuff, not a big fan or most death metal/speed metal.

A sampling from my current playlist includes a lot of Five Finger Death Punch, some All That Remains, In Flames, Hollywood Undead, Dead Letter Circus Karnivool, Disturbed, Silent Theory, Like a Storm, Hail the Villain, Skillet, a smattering of Parkway Drive, Smash into Pieces and Three Days Grace.

I might also have the occasional one or two from Scooter, Texas Hippie Coalition, The Dead South and Sabaton.

And for flavor, there's some cool ones swiped from YouTube- some Tool as played by a brass band (check YT for "Tool, Samuel Hope") an extended mix of Greyhound by Swedish House Mafia, a techno remix of O Fortuna, that new remix of The HU's Wolf Totem, and of course some of Apocalyptica's early covers of Metallica stuff.

I have quite a bit of music from various sources, and use a cheap $40 Wal-Mart MP3 player (I think about 8GB) run through a semi-fancy receiver/equalizer component system I bought for a song- if you'll pardon the pun- from a local pawn shop. I spend a LOT of time in the shop, and I HATE radio commercials. Hell, I hate the radio, period- the only halfway decent local station is "classic rock".

They'll occasionally play new FFDP and the like, but that's only like, twice a day- the rest basically nothing newer than Sabbath-era Ozzy, Jimi Hendrix and the apparently-mandatory twice-hourly playing of Sweet Emotion.

So I got the cheap player and loaded it with stuff that's worth listening to.

Doc.

[DocsMachine]

Any progress on the Duke? I need one in my life!

-Yes, as a matter of fact. If you remember just before the Big Kerflooey, I posted an article about making an eight gram dropout changer for the Phantom. Part of the reason i was fooling with that (a mod that exactly nobody was going to want ) was that I've been working up my own lever changer (basically just a copy of the old SI lever) specifically to fit into the Duke stock.

That and a proper loading system/gate are really the only two things I have to finish inventing/developing. Everything else is just fine-tuning.

I also plan on making the development of the MkIII (the one you guys saw was the MkII) into a video series. Stand by.

Doc.