Synhouse has customers in 42 countries.
Synhouse ships to your country and has since before eBay existed.
If you are looking at a small/normal item in the Synhouse eBay listings
and seeing no shipping options to your area or seeing a notice that
says the seller doesn't ship to your address, this is incorrect. I've
been shipping to Australia, England, etc. since 1990, five years before
eBay even existed, and eBay has deleted ALL the shipping options and
prices I've spent many hours setting up, in order to enable eBay
International Shipping, and then tells people in the most commonly
shipped to countries that shipping is not available there. This is fake
and idiotic; eBay had already been shipping there with the eBay Global
Shipping Program for a few years, now says they don't with eBay
International Shipping AND deleted my own shipping options without my
permission or knowledge, when it could have and should have been left
in place as an option because at least it WORKS and eBay doesn't know
what they are doing.
This goes WAY back to 2017 with people in New Zealand (one of the most
commonly shipped to Synhouse countries) telling me that I don't ship
there, and 1) multiple calls to eBay didn't solve it, 2) they sometimes
said they solved it but didn't, and 3) said "Uhm, wait 24 hours and it
will be working.", which is how eBay gets you off the phone. And I
could never get that New Zealand problem solved. The new problem since
early 2023 is eBay deleting my own shipping options in order to put
theirs in, then theirs tells people no, the seller doesn't ship there,
but I CAN manually set up a shipping method (usually with Synhouse it's
one price each for USA, Canada, Asia/Australia, and the rest of the
world.
Now I'm getting messages like these:
5/16/2023: Hi, Wondering how much shipping would be to Canada, postal
code T2N 2P7. Thanks!
Can you enable the ebay international shipping option for me? I am very
interested.
1/1/2024: Hi there can you post to London uk and how much would postage
be?
Hi how much would postage be to London England
Thanks for your reply. Im trying to check out but im get the message
saying seller doesn't ship to your address. Please advise as i really
need the new faceplate.
1/30/2024: Hello synhouse, I have a T8 and would like to buy your
Optical-Emitter-Set just to make sure to have it in the future. Is
there a reason you don't ship to Germany?
If you see that any small/normal Synhouse item does not ship to
you/your area, this is FAKE and wrong, please send an eBay message to
tell me and I can manually enter shipping to your area AGAIN.
Sorry for this incompetent platform I've been struggling with for 25
years now...
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This is a weird thing, I don't know if anyone wants it, but I'll offer
them for now at a good price.
This is a full set of 8 new/NOS replacement caps for the SP1200.
These are not standard fat caps from SP1200s, they are very rare shiny
ones of a type that were never used on the SP1200, but from the same
company that supplied the more commonly seen fat caps.
One of the photos in this eBay listings shows one of these next to a
standard fat cap on one of my SP1200s, so you can see the difference.
The normal ones have a leather/pebble-grained textured on the grabbing
surface, but these have a shiny surface, the same shiny surface
appearance as you would see on the skinny caps used on the Emulator,
Drumulator, Emulator II, SP-12, and older 1987 gray SP1200 (as well as
some, but not all, of the later 1990s black reissue SP1200s).
In the 1980s and 1990s, most companies that supplied knobs and caps to
the electronics trade had just a few basic styles, but each style one
could be ordered with options, such as outer color (black, red, etc),
indicator line color (white, yellow, etc.), surface treatment (shiny,
pebble-grained, etc.), shaft fitting (6 mm D, 6 mm American D, 18
teeth, etc.), and sometimes size (such as the Minimoog knobs that were
made in many sizes).
This one for sale here is an alternate surface version from the same
company that made the particular part that was supplied to the
production of some of the SP1200s.
These are new/NOS, unused, never used, never installed on a machine,
NEVER even pushed onto a slider shaft (more advice about that below),
they only have very, very light scuffs on a few of them due to rubbing
together in bags since they were new.
I think these are the best looking drum machine slider caps of all
time, but that's just my opinion.
Replacement tips and techniques from my decades of working with these:
To install, push the slider cap on as far as it will possibly go.
Once you have placed this brand new slider cap on the slider shaft,
DON'T take it off and try it on every other machine you have just for
fun. It works a little like the crush sleeve that holds the shifter
knob on your car (if you're not a sissy and you have a shifter),
there's some extra material in there that smashes onto the shaft the
FIRST time. If you take it off, it will be somewhat looser the second
time. This is why I didn't put these new caps on the shafts just to
take the eBay photos, I know better. Also note that years on the slider
shaft stretches them out slightly, so these won't be loose like the old
ones (but they will if you put them on and take them off a lot of
times, so don't).
So if you NEED to have them off to do some service on your machine,
then go on and do that first.
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There is a minimum shipping price for all of my small components and a
different minimum for a very low value item or for something $50 or
more. However, I can ship almost any number of parts for the
international shipping that it shows for most of those items. So if you
want, for example, an SP1200 overlay and some knobs and some switches,
or knobs and switches and potentiometers or whatever, just let me know
IN ADVANCE and I will set up a special listing for you so that you will
only pay the shipping once. This is if you tell me IN ADVANCE, not if
you ask for it later because any shipping money paid has already been
docked 4.9% by PayPal and another 10% by eBay and that money is not
coming back. Yes, eBay takes 10% of the stated shipping charge since
2011, and PayPal has always taken 4.9% of that money for international
and 3% for domestic. So let me know in advance and I can set it up so
that you can save a lot of money by buying and shipping the parts
together.
I can also set up special listings for different quantities of items
sometimes. Usually the price is the same per item but I can set it up
and that saves a lot of money on shipping.
Synhouse accepts PayPal. Additionally, Synhouse has accepted payments
directly by Visa, Mastercard, and American Express for 19 years now.