80% of Pedal Building is...

[Bricksnbeatles]

80% trying to deal with workbench organizing

 

[jessenator]

80% of the time, i build pedals every time.

 

[Nostradoomus]

80% of the time, i build pedals every time.

 

[joelorigo]

I loved this thread!

 

[Passinwind]

They say that 80% of sewing is ironing. 80% of woodworking is sanding. What would you say makes up 80% of pedal building?

Modeling in LTspice.

 

[Stickman393]

80% waiting for germanium transistors to stabilize before you neatly label and organize them into binders filled with coin collector's loose leaf inserts.

 

[rossbalch]

80% buying parts for those future projects that I'm definitely going to design and build.

 

[ICTRock]

80% tracking number management

 

[Feral Feline]

I loved this thread!

Past tense, hmmm...

So what made you stop loving it?

The fact that 80% is parts procurement, no matter what anybody says it is otherwise?

 

[Ale_jellybelly]

Just like building amps it’s 80% wire routing for me. Uggg.

same! i like almost everything about building pedals, but preparing, measuring, cutting, tinning, and soldering wires i really do not look forward to...

 

[HamishR]

The neat freak in me actually enjoys the wiring - to a degree. I like it when I can make it super neat. Necessitated "sloppiness" annoys me intensely.

I don't think any part of building pedals is 80% for me. Sorry. It used to be that maybe 20% was finding all of the parts, but since I organised my capacitors into a compartment box the finding-the-parts bit has speeded up tremendously. Populating the board and populating/wiring up the enclosure are maybe 40% each? Depends on the pedal. So maybe 80% of making a pedal is making the pedal?

 

[CheapSuitG]

Pedal building is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation and 2 % butterscotch ripple.

 

[Stickman393]

Pedal building is 80% pulling out an empty expression pedal housing and going "wah wah wah" with yo mouth.

 

[Fuzzonaut]

80% of pedal building is building a fuzz.

 

[CheapSuitG]

80% of pedal building is building a fuzz.

Intentionally or unintentionally building a fuzz?

 

[Fuzzonaut]

Intentionally or unintentionally building a fuzz?

Yes.

 

[szukalski]

80% is finding the time. Feck the wires, feck the graphics, let me finish the board population in half an hour and boxing in another half hour.

 

[Aleph Null]

same! i like almost everything about building pedals, but preparing, measuring, cutting, tinning, and soldering wires i really do not look forward to...

The only reason I got into making PCBs was so that I could avoid all the off-board wiring needed for vero.

 

[joelorigo]

Past tense, hmmm...

So what made you stop loving it?

The fact that 80% is parts procurement, no matter what anybody says it is otherwise?

Oops! Didn't mean to type the past tense!

I love 80% of this thread.

 

[pricklyrobot]

Does sorting through the big Mouser box once it arrives count as part of “procurement”?
Because that’s the bit that always takes me lots of time, and floor space!

But aside from that 80%, the other 80% is mustering the time and energy to engage in this super fun hobby that is theoretically way more gratifying than tv and a beer