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A helpful and proportionate answer -- PERFECT!

I'm not offended as long as the preface is there, so let me say that first -- thank you for prefacing this with a sort of, "you sound like you've decided you want to try" kind of thing. There's a fine line in a thread like this between voicing earnest doubts, and stealing power, and I appreciate a man who can tell the difference!

The answer on isolation transformers is *really* helpful. I'm trying to clean up a stubborn power problem at my house (people keep bench-testing my stuff and telling me there's nothing wrong with it), and have replaced the service panel, but wanted to cover the possibilities of DC-offset and common mode interference, both. So, no transformers except for the CDP, and no felix on the CDP, and felix on the preamp but no transformer on the preamp, right? And the amp straight into my dedicated AC line?

"Standoffs" is apparently the noun I meant to use when I said "mounting bosses," so let me re-ask the question about them: Can I add standoffs to a project enclosure that doesn't come with them already installed, and if so, how do I attach them to the enclosure?

I didn't mean for the earlier post to sound scratchy -- I just think that it's worth the benefit-of-the-doubt when someone says they're planning to learn about the stuff ahead of time, and respect the danger, and maybe come out of it with a lot more knowledge and skill, if not necessarily a better project. (Though I'll admit to being more optimistic about the end result of the project than you are. Ha.) At all events, I'm not gonna blindly solder six parts together and plug it to my wall and grab ahold of it to see what happens, and got a bit ticked-off when someone made it sound like they thought I might.

In the meantime, what is solder flux? Do I need some of that? Can I get "helping hands" at rat shack? What about static -- are there products I need to buy (tools?) to keep my mui-expensive X2-rated caps from being destroyed the first time I try to pick them up?

THANKS for being a little more patient with me!!!!

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