{"id":1117,"date":"2013-07-05T20:30:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T20:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2013-07-05T20:51:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T20:51:20","slug":"suitcase-kit-replica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/?p=1117","title":{"rendered":"1981 Suitcase Kit Replica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago a friend of mine sent me a link to an old black plastic toolbox: &#8220;Hey, doesn&#8217;t this box have about the size as a Suitcase kit?&#8221; Indeed! It had! So he bought 2 boxes, I got one. We ordered all ingredients:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>rubber foam (40mm and 20mm)<\/li>\n<li>XLR connectors<\/li>\n<li>20mm plywood<\/li>\n<li>black PVC<\/li>\n<li>wire<\/li>\n<li>transducers<\/li>\n<li>1 kOhm resistors<\/li>\n<li>red felt<\/li>\n<li>foam glue spray<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The parts cost about 50 Euro. Assembling the suitcase takes a couple of hours. It is pure fun and worth every minute. Fortunately I already had an original Suitcase which I <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/?p=1027\">restored a couple of years ago<\/a>. So I already roughly knew what to do&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20130705_suitcase01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Cutting the pads<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20130705_suitcase02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>&#8230;and the surfaces<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20130705_suitcase03.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>assembling the pads<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20130705_suitcase04.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>transducers on the backside<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20130705_suitcase05.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nthe slot for the connectors<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20130705_suitcase06.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>those connectors haven&#8217;t changed in 4 decades<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20130705_suitcase07.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>cutting the foam<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20130705_suitcase08.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>soldering pad by pad. The resistors soften the signal<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20130705_suitcase09.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Testing<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20130705_suitcase10.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>the bottom layer of foam<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20130705_suitcase11.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The plan<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20130705_suitcase12.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Assembling<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20130705_suitcase13.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>almost<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20130705_suitcase14.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>adhering the felt onto the top foam layer<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20130705_suitcase15.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>cutting<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20130705_suitcase16.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>cutiing the trays for the pads<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20130705_suitcase17.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>the closed case<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20130705_suitcase18.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Finished, connected and ready to play<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>and here is a little video demo:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iNg8yPgRxT4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This Replica works very good. I don&#8217;t have any crosstalk problems and I am also looking forward to play my VST system. As we still have enough material and as I get the dimensions of Saga&#8217;s original Briefcase I am looking forward to clone this one, too.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago a friend of mine sent me a link to an old black plastic toolbox: &#8220;Hey, doesn&#8217;t this box have about the size as a Suitcase kit?&#8221; Indeed! It had! So he bought 2 boxes, I got one. We ordered all ingredients: rubber foam (40mm and 20mm) XLR connectors 20mm plywood black PVC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pads","category-report","category-sound-and-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"http:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}