u/DMala

Setting up a Schecter 006 Deluxe in C# standard for a friend, and I've run out of adjustment room on the bridge trying to get the low E and G strings intonated. It's a hardtail with an ABR-1-ish bridge. With the saddles maxed out, they're both still ~10 cents sharp.

I've got 11-54s on it already, not sure if going any higher will make a difference. I was going to try flipping the saddles to buy me another few mms, and I managed to snap an adjustment screw head off. I've got a new bridge for it now, but I'm wondering if it's even worth trying.

Are there any other tricks to squeeze out a little more adjustment, or do I just call it good enough? It's going to be a chuggy-chuggy doom machine anyway, so I suspect absolute spot-on intonation isn't going to be a huge issue.

This is probably more just idle musing than a serious idea, but I'm curious... I've been going deep with pinball simulation recently, and I was fairly shocked to discover that the latest VPinMAME is forked from MAME 0.76. (They call it "historic" in the VPinMAME doc, but "paleolithic" seems a more apt description.)

I kind of get why, given the architecture and all of the pinball simulation infrastructure built on top of that. I wonder, though, if it would be feasible or even possible to build a shim of some sort that would interface with modern MAME scripting, but still provide the VPinMAME COM interface so that Visual Pinball and whatever else would continue to function the same.

I have a 50 foot outdoor Cat6 cable that's going to run from my ONT in the basement up to my second floor condo. I'd like the basement end to have a jack, so I have flexibility in running the cable through the basement, both now and in the future. I bought an Ethernet coupler, since the cable is already terminated and I don't feel like messing around with punching down a connection.

The issue is that a standard 1-port surface mount box is too short for the coupler and wire to fit. Before I bodge something together, does anyone have a line on a box that would be deep enough for this?