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For less fragile things like caps and resistors I don't bother and just do it by hand, but it's handy for glass package diodes. Could I do it with a fingernail to the lead so I'm not using the glass as a fulcrum? sure. Is one of those things easier? much. ;) As far as spacing, YMMV. I haven't...

oh, the button is not part of it, probably to show the alignment hole functionality

Some might decry these as big 🤡 energy, but for some components I've found it quite handy. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2442179

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My brain: …bite it. Me: what? My brain: BITE IT

Well it'll be the Monoprice 5W vs a Tonemaster vs Lil Goldie Phats (custom ~8W) vs Blues Jr. Interesting, if not entirely apples to apples. Hopefully my eardrums will still be intact : P We'll probably do tele, strat, and hagstrom (in lieu of an actual LP). Likely a shortlist of pedals: OD...

Yeah, I bought the Monoprice/Harley Benton/Laney/etc 5W and it's great. Okay, some detail: it does lean very bright, which I'm actually glad for. Not a fan of [REDACTED] and other amps in that vein which aim mid-low from my experience. That said, I have to leave the singular tone knob at...

I've got to retract one recommendation here: The MPS6548 is a VHF/UHF specialty application type and has a weird pinout of B E C—yes, the emitter pin is in the middle. So, don't buy it unless you want to bend pins for funsies.

Another solution, if quite clunky space-wise, is to piggyback transistors to get lower gain. I haven't messed with it much, so more experienced folks can chime in. I'm not sure if it's a perfect 50% of the original gain, but it definitely gets you lower. It's meant to "emulate" a germanium...

I got mine by trolling through places like Circuit Specialists —mostly their closeout items. I just kinda went through all of their NPNs and looked up their datasheets if I didn't recognize it. Some I scored on, others …well I'll find something for them eventually. I think I bought out most of...

In my BJT addiction collecting almost specifically for the Super-Fuzz, these are ones that measure around 100 and below on my T7 and have been used in my Super-Fuzz builds: part num type mat min mostly max A5T2243 NPN Si 30 50 70 2N2369A NPN Si 30 90 90 MPS3394 NPN Si 60 70 90 MPS4274...

I wish it was that kind of cool noise

I'm pleased(?) to report I've had my first ever failure of a TL072 fake! As in, even if they're rebadged 358 this thing completely failed on me. Didn't notice I had popped a fake one into my madbean Degenerator until it was putting out odd, noisy, atonal static. I thought, is there a fake 072...

Thanks for the detailed explanation! I stand corrected.

The variance in gain. Maybe it's just a weird compulsion/neurosis of mine… The gain values of my batch of 5088s were all over the place, (bah, I deleted my graph—yeah, I'm weird) My batch of Fairchild 5088s were nearly uniform with a handful of outliers. Similar story with 3904s (no-name vs...

Those things aren't worth it at any price, IMO. Not even stamped Central. Nothing at all, at least in my batch. Neither are the 88s.

The crazy thing is right now they're more expensive at Tayda, and no QoS, compared to Mouser:

Homer Simpson's donut?

That's the manufacturing run number, and I've rarely if ever gotten chips all from the same run. Looks some members are keeping track of what are fakes though. I wouldn't be too concerned since you bought those from a large scale supplier. Buying from digikey, farnell, mouser, etc. is the...