What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

jimilee said:
With them being 1% tolerance, I dare say it won’t make a difference.
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That's the thing, 1% tolerance means the resistor is dead on 12k. I always dread desoldering parts but a single resistor should be easy enough. I'll try.
 
Bricksnbeatles said:
Is that a clear footswitch washer?
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Yes! Protects the art/paint but also shows the artwork underneath. Mine are just some random ones from Aliexpress, and they are actually pretty thin and soft, so not at all rigid and hard like normal washers. But they do the trick, protect the enclosure while I tighten the footswitch nut. I might prefer if someone has found rigid ones though, since at least once the washer got sort of... wrinkled? It got twisted around. I tried again with another one and it was fine, but I'm sure there could be better options.
andare said:
Ok I tried desoldering that damn resistor and the son of a bitch wouldn't budge even with the SS02. Amateur hour!
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I hate desoldering too since I've had some bad experiences. You could try carefully filing it a bit to get it to 13k if you have a small file, but tbh I'd probably finish the rest of the build first and see if it works like that?

Edit: I've also put in parallel resistors on the other side of the PCB once, but that only works to reduce the resistor value, not to increase it.
 
szukalski said:
Practice desoldering an entire board (we all have one in the drawer of shame). Your desolder game will get up to speed quickly.
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I actually did that when I got the SS02, using a board of shame.
In the past I successfully removed and replaced trimpots, electros and stuff but not yesterday. I don;t solder regularly, maybe that's why.
My nemesis is the Squidward - board's so tight, I always end up getting solder in adjacent pads.
I have a good solder sucker, solder wick and those special desoldering needles. Nothing works well, I'm just a hack.
So when I saw the board getting foggy I stopped trying, reflowed the joints and finished populating it. We'll see.
 
Fama said:
...what if I don't have any nonworking boards and don't want to sacrifice anything that works for that? I could maybe do some veroboard but I feel like that might be an easier thing.
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Sooner or later you will mess up royally or you'll have a board that doesn't quite behave as it should and troubleshooting becomes annoying after a while so you'll decide to sacrifice it for the sake of sanity. I have a Minnow like that, it worked but there was a volume drop. Nothing helped so now it sits there waiting to be pillaged.
 
Fama said:
...what if I don't have any nonworking boards and don't want to sacrifice anything that works for that? I could maybe do some veroboard but I feel like that might be an easier thing.
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Yeah, you can use vero or sacrifice a working board. Nothing you'd want to reuse, odds are you lift a pad as you test your patience limits :)
 
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Another day, another pedal. I'm learning bad habits because I boxed it all up (except for the knobs) before I even fired it up, and everything worked fine first try. It's going to bite me in the ass one day.

Only weird thing about the build was the C3 which had the footprint of a 1uF film cap, but the actual parts value list said 1nF, the schematic said 1nF... and the shopping list said 1uF? I searched around and the Dirtbox Layouts one said 1nF, and a thread on this forum mentioned that Effects Layouts had 1uF there while every other place (and some production shots of the original one?) had 1nF, so I assume that must have been a mistake with Effects Layouts that they only partially corrected.

Well, that plus the knobs being the completely wrong shade of green... It doesn't look too bad on the pedalboard, but I might end up replacing them at some point.

Sounds great too, definitely would recommend this. I've grown disillusioned with the Sunn pedal I had, it does the "Doom over the world" tone well, but not much else. This one seems to have a lot more range (even if the FAC/depth knob is a bit on the subtle side?), and I like it a lot.
 
Trying to box up the Low Tide has been terrible today. There's no space vertically - a 1590BB is too short - and my drilling is ok but the faceplate compounds any imperfection. Tomorrow I have to drill all the pot holes larger because there's no way 6 pots are gonna fit. And don't get me started on the LED. I have no idea how I'm going to make it snap into the lens.

Honestly I thought of hanging up the soldering iron for good today. It's been a few years and I still struggle with drilling, wiring etc. I can't stand how small and fiddly everything is. Clearly this hobby is not for me.

I think I'll stop building with PCBs and only focus on occasional fuzz pedals in humongous enclosures with gigantic components and hardware only.
Plus what's the point of building more stuff? It's not like I'm selling anything. I'm just spending money on effects I'll never use.

Ok I'll tune back in when I'm less angry and bummed out.
 
Fama said:
Only weird thing about the build was the C3 which had the footprint of a 1uF film cap, but the actual parts value list said 1nF, the schematic said 1nF... and the shopping list said 1uF? I searched around and the Dirtbox Layouts one said 1nF, and a thread on this forum mentioned that Effects Layouts had 1uF there while every other place (and some production shots of the original one?) had 1nF, so I assume that must have been a mistake with Effects Layouts that they only partially corrected.
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The original release had the error (1uF). The board wasn’t revised, and the document is only partially corrected. 1nF is indeed correct there.
 
andare said:
Trying to box up the Low Tide has been terrible today. There's no space vertically - a 1590BB is too short - and my drilling is ok but the faceplate compounds any imperfection. Tomorrow I have to drill all the pot holes larger because there's no way 6 pots are gonna fit. And don't get me started on the LED. I have no idea how I'm going to make it snap into the lens.

Honestly I thought of hanging up the soldering iron for good today. It's been a few years and I still struggle with drilling, wiring etc. I can't stand how small and fiddly everything is. Clearly this hobby is not for me.

I think I'll stop building with PCBs and only focus on occasional fuzz pedals in humongous enclosures with gigantic components and hardware only.
Plus what's the point of building more stuff? It's not like I'm selling anything. I'm just spending money on effects I'll never use.

Ok I'll tune back in when I'm less angry and bummed out.
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Ok I was soldering solid core to the board to connect to the 3pdt...ended up lifting the SW pad.
So now this expensive board is ruined.

Gonna go out for a walk to calm my nerves down
 
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