Recent content by BrainDrain

I love just a regular stainless flat washer outside. Simple and classy 👍🏻 Supposedly the Belleville style washers are what NASA and the military likes to use for locking.

Some of the best footswitches come with lock washers. It’s just a choice of the manufacturer or possibly who’s selling it. Personally I’m not a fan of smooth spring washers on anything that has pressure always being applied to it. I’ve never had them work well for me and the switch always feels...

If you use the white plastic washer on the inside the metal lock washer never grabs metal. Plastic against metal will move easier. For what we do if you tighten it enough it’ll probably be ok but there’s still a chance of it coming loose over time that way. During a gig wouldn't be optimal. When...

It can be nice to have in some pedals to give you a visual cue of the effect rate on a dark stage before you switch the effect on.

That’s hilarious. Looks like a typical Jack White backwards design. “On the fly” tweaking is more important than turning the pedal on and off properly without kicking the sliders? Riiiiiiight 😂 Not the best design choice imo.

This made me think of how I see some people use the lock washer incorrectly. Sorry it’s my lock washer ocd. Didn’t see it mentioned early on and 24 pages is too much right now so forgive me if someone mentioned it. LOL. I sometimes see people putting the lock washer outside the pedal enclosure...

I’ve been wanting to build this one. I just emailed the 1776 guy the other day asking if his store would reopen but he said no plans to at the moment. I don’t see anything standing out. Your soldering looks good. My first guess would be the vactrols. They don’t look like xvive or excilitas...

I’m building this soon. Still sourcing the last few components. Not sure of a fix yet but if you post some pics here I’ll take a look. Just make sure they’re clear and from straight over the top of inside the enclosure. If we can’t get it fixed here or in another forum I would just send Dino at...

the questions about Low Tide builds are so plentiful that it’s almost become a meme. My own questions included. 😂Surprised someone hasn’t actually made one yet though. Or have they? Don’t let it stop you from asking questions if you don’t see it in a previous thread but a chuckle is par for the...

😂😂😂😂😂😂 We’re all just here holding our soldering irons waiting for life to normalize again.

Makes total sense now. Thanks for teaching me something new. ✌🏻 All of this craziness can’t end soon enough.

That I understand. Companies do it all the time. Buy parts from China. Assemble it here and call it Made In USA. But that doesn’t mean we the consumers pay tariffs directly on the product they make. The company pays the tariffs for the components they bought from another country and eventually...

Dino is actually really good about refunding any extra money that wasn’t used to pay for the shipping. Very honest guy. A couple times I didn’t even realize he did until weeks later. I think he just does it like this because some of the PCBs are pretty large and he doesn’t wanna come up short...

I’m probably missing something but I thought we only pay tariff charges for goods coming from other countries? Pretty much as a penalty for not spending our money within the US. I notice some parts on Mouser have no tariffs and some do. I figured the parts made here would be exempt and the ones...

Any updates on this one? Curious to know how it turned out.