The PCBs and the SMD hall effect sensors have shipped but are still a few days away, so I'm making sure that I have everything else I need for my MacroPad Version 3 build.  I still have a good supply of the Futaba MD-4PCS switches, but I only have four 2U stabilizer wires for the Tile Holder Switches. Fortunately I have unused 6.25U and 7U wires that I can use to make some 2Us with. 

When I first got my first 3D printer in the Spring of 2018 (a Prusa MK3) it was in part because I wanted to make a Digi-Comp I replica ( I had one back in 1965 when I was 12). In addition to the printed parts, the build required a dozen "logic" and "clock" rods to be fabricated from piano wire. That motivated me to make a wire bending tool based on the following YouTube video:

I have used that tool dozens of times over the years. Well worth the effort to make it. So I dusted it off and using the existing elbow bends on the longer stabilizer wires made bends at the 2U mark and cut away the excess to make 4 additional 2U stabilizer wires.

Above I have make two 2U stabilizer wires with 2 to go.

If you don’t have extra stabilizer wires to salvage, 1.6 mm brass welding rods will do the trick and are cheap and readily available.

I think I now have everything in place to start the build when the parts arrive.