Workflow for building a big batch all at once

JTEX said:
If they're all diferent designs, it seems to me that there isn't much of an advantage to building them all at the same time instead of one at a time :unsure: It might even turn out to be slower and more error-prone as you try to focus on too many dissimilar things at once.
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Yeah, this is a fair point. Although, when I have a bag of 100k resistors in my hand and can just go down the line and insert them into each pedal, that seems pretty efficient to me. Although, this process requires me to bend the leads a lot currently because I'm just resting the PCBs on my desk, not in a floating vice or anything like that. It can get pretty confusing.

I think I will try building a pedal or two from start to finish to see if it's at least more enjoyable.
 
I mix it up, but here's one way I've tried:

Popped all the resistors, then soldered in the outer edges of the PCB (rotating the PCB clockwise or counterclockwise, then clipped the soldered leads to expose the next "layer" for soldering. Like nibbling around the edge of a cookie, you eventually get to the centre, but without any leads getting in the way of your soldering-iron.

Could also do the above from one side of the board working to the opposite side...
 
Feral Feline said:
I mix it up, but here's one way I've tried:

Popped all the resistors, then soldered in the outer edges of the PCB (rotating the PCB clockwise or counterclockwise, then clipped the soldered leads to expose the next "layer" for soldering. Like nibbling around the edge of a cookie, you eventually get to the centre, but without any leads getting in the way of your soldering-iron.

Could also do the above from one side of the board working to the opposite side...
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Are you bending the leads or using blu tack or what? How do you get all the components to stay put while also not creating a mess of bent leads?
 
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