Fuzz Aldrin

falco_femoralis

falco_femoralis

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I made one of these in the past in a horizontal format but I wanted to make a normal one too. Here's how we started

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I took off the bottom two pots as I wanted to change the setup. This board also has a random 18k LED resistor so I pulled that out as well in exchange for a 4.7k
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All the wires are run and the PCB is in the enclosure. I installed the bottom pots such that their legs were at weird angles. The easiest way to get everything together was to put the pots loosely in the enclosure and then mate up the PCB to them. After everything was tightened, I soldered them in
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Audio and DC jacks are in
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I'm installing the footswitch along with a new thing - a trim pot to be able to adjust the brightness of the LED. I trim the wires to length, strip and tin the ends, then feed them up with needlenose
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Bent the legs of the LED to get it in place and we're all done
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And the front
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I love the Lunar Module, such a great fuzz.
 
ftumch said:
That's wicked man where'd you get the fancy bezel? Looks super impressive plus low current draw, win-win. I'm into it
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Thanks, it's a Fender style amp jewel, the camera is picking up the refraction in that hex pattern for some reason. You can get them in different colors, this one is blue with a pink LED which produces a cool effect.
 
Fender jewel lamps have a bent sheet metal holder for the little lightbulb and the holder is attached to the chassis with a circular bezel which is threaded for a nut. The jewel screws into the bezel at the left in this pic (no jewel shown). It looks like this jewel is either threaded into the soft metal of the enclosure or just glued in place.

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joelorigo said:
It sure does! How do you secure the amp jewel to the enclosure? They have threads that screw into the amp face right?
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There's different ways you can do it, a thin nylon washer, a circlip, super glue, but I purchased a tap with the same size and thread pitch as the jewels I like to use and I just tap the hole with my drill press. I wanted to be able to remove it easily just in case.

I used to try to use a step bit to create a chamfered edge with a profile the thickness of the threads of the jewel, but that wasn't reliable enough
 
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