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I recently bought some 3AX85Cs and 3AX83Cs. Iceo for all was 1ma and above using the RG keen method. Most were around the 3ma range. Which is just about as bad as one can get using the RG keen method. I can't say I've been endeared to Chinese germaniums yet. Sure, they'll be good additions...

That sounded so rehersed.

Don't do it. If you do, you'll get solder balls. Big ones. Swollen, one might say. Also: made of lead, so they'll be heavy. One must always follow the rules of expiration set by manufacturers in critical, life-sustaining applications like guitar pedals. Give it to an airplane mechanic...

Here's a little page that describes the E series of preferred numbers fairly well: https://www.logwell.com/tech/components/resistor_values.html 374 is part of the E96 series, which corresponds to a 1% tolerance. Guitar pedals don't generally need that tight of a tolerance, though. Folks like...

Good little resource. I typically use the Kemets, personally. I'm always gonna prefer a film over a mlcc on this range. At least until C0G is available in a 1uf package. Though I've been known to go a little crazy and grab a PPS or a polypro in this range. Because...fuck it. I do what I want.

There's a ton of pickup winder designs on thingieverse and yeggi. For all y'all that have 3d printers. I'll probably end up giving it a shot. Kinda curious to try winding humbuckers with Litz, experimenting with Alnico 8's. As a heavy metal guy, I've never gotten on well with actives. Or...

Damn. Wimped out at the end

I *could*. Theoretically. Right now I'm only doing wah inductors. Haven't tried pickups yet. Hmmmm....

Imma second that one. Behold!

My next trick will be doing the same thing to carbon composition resistors that have drifted high. Those things are fairly porous and tend to suck up moisture if not stored wisely. I throw a desiccant packet in with all my CCs. One of my little projects that I've adopted for myself is buying...

Fo sho. I just did two 5 board prototype runs and a bundle of 40 patented Don't Fuck Up My Wah (TM) daughter boards. Paying about as much in shipping and tarriffs as in the boards. Had to abandon another design cause, like, the PCBa cost was a bit much. Gonna do things the old fashioned way.

You gonna make me blush...

I've got the same de-soldering iron. My take? Its fine. It's best for when you have, like, *a bunch* of de-soldering to do. Like if you're scavenging components. But it's bulky, and imprecise. And I don't trust the solenoid in it to like...not burst into flames in my hand. But it's...

Yessir! Shoot, at this scale a peltier cooling system would do the trick. It'll suck down current like a teenager at a disreputable open bar, all right, but it'd work. Lets make the most power hungry fuzz face ever. The kind of thing that makes the lights dim when you plug it in. Hell yeah.

Thats because typically the input jack is shorting the "ground" (typically, but not always negative). That one's like a normally open set of contacts: inserting a mono plug into a stereo jack that has the load (circuit) tied to the ring and the "ground" tied to the barrel shorts the ring and...

Aion's version of the Hudson broadcast lists it as either a 2N404a or a MP20. They specify a gain range of 60-80hfe and leakage under 100uA. Not a difficult target to hit with A 1T308V/GT308V will fit that bill nicely. Russian transistors, their V looks like a capital B. I've got a bunch of...

Check R4. Should be 10K, looks like you might have a 1K in there. Edit: nah, they're 5 band. Nvm. Double edit: R12: you've got a 12K in there, looks like. Needs to be 22k.

You've got a Stalo on the way. Like. Soonish. I keep on getting distracted. My bad. Its already made, just gotta like...find time to actually do the work of putting together doomy's package with yours and figuring out how to do international mail. As if it was hard. I procrastinate. I...

Nah dude. No dice. This was the component earlier: This thing would make a fantastic Q1 in a fuzz face if I could keep it below 50 degrees 100% of the time. At that point it's like, HFE 75, leakage 100uA. But the temperature coefficient on this thing is super touchy. Like, huge swings...

Whelp, I've been having fun. Had a couple of sparks, just started grabbing at random values from the datasheet in terms of max Vce, max Ic, yada blah... Figures that my first real attempt to sit down with a breadboard and do some work would be torture testing transistors that were likely to be...