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Or you can heat the pad with solder block for 5 seconds or so and quickly rap the board on something more or less solid. The solder will splat out BTW in my point to point excursions, I've discovered that grounds are not very picky about who they go with or how they get there, as long as they...

Just ordered some breadboards and they are normal with sticky backing; they also shipped with two nonmagnetic steel sheets. Same footprint as the breadboards. What are these for?

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I hate to retoot a horn, but I just wanted to tell anybody reading this in the future after some decent time playing and exploring confirming my initial impressions: Eff yes, do all the mods. It might be ambitious and a pain in some cases, but it is WELL worth it. The original pedal is great...

A lot of power supplies have 9v and 18v sockets. You didn't accidentally plug into 18v perchance?

Amen to what HamishR had to say about 'Murrica and poverty. Amen to the obscenity that any one living human could own 1 billion dollars, let alone multiple billions. Especially if you think about it in physical terms. And comparative terms. On the origins of America, class, Hamilton vs...

Continuity or audio probe check from point to point, then? At least up to the dpdt For the dpdt question, I wouldn't think so, but then it's type 1 and 2 on-on-on, so... Maybe?

Could not find a silicon combination that got me down to 2.5-3v for q3 Subbed in the mp38s. I think Q2 was 76 HFE and Q3 was 104hfe. A lot of the octavey qualities were gone as well as some of the middy grossness I got with the silicon transistors, so I guess germanium it is for me. I might...

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Wowwww gotta blang up every little thing

Dangit! That's probably true. And me and my reading glasses need all the help they can get.

Hahaha! I'm sure it was very collegial. With me it's all about the breakfast Sorry, my finger strayed onto the post button before it was finished

Not that anyone particularly needed this update, but I came across @jcpst's build report where he stated that PPCB had the cool audio THAT2159 chips in stock. Needed some germanium mp30s, so why not? Well, for whatever reason, this fixed the problem. I think the compression is a little tamer...

Well, ordered a new (clear) breadboard with potstickers (the screw terminal doodads). Q3 was 5.4v, Q2 up to 4.6v Sorry on the delay, I had forgotten to measure. Got my MP38s, so I'll try to sub in after I also find a si transistor that gives 3.5 2.5-3ish at Q3. I might have to futz with the...

Clear is not common? Asking out of ignorance. I think I've been abusing it by shoving my potentiometer legs in there. I did not measure Q3, just auditioned by ear, but for you, dearest Charles David Bones, I will.

I breadboarded the circuit with some ge 2n169, about 60hfe, but it sucked. Unusably gated and spitty so I can definitely attest to the importance of the transistors. I know I could have futzed with the resistors to get the gain up, but I decided to do the easy things and sub in some higher...

Out of curiosity... Why germanium transistors, particularly?

Success! Thanks, folks! It ended up being a combo of braid, solder sucker, and gentle persuasion that did the trick!

Yeah, I already tried that twice, but no go and now I'm paranoid of frying the pads. Thanks, though, I appreciate the suggestion

Thanks, folks! Will try your suggestions--I forgot I have desoldering braid, will give it a go. Desoldering needles is a first for me! Dovetails--I totally would have gone the snipping route, but the transformer body is sitting right over everything. I'd have to destroy it and knowing me...