Anyone know how a stupid person could remove cured UV ink?

swyse

swyse

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To keep things short, I, a stupid person, somehow missed a white line along the side of my PDF I sent for UV printing. I now have an enclosure with a white line on it. Thankfully the line is not in a terrible spot and not as noticeable as it could be. I would like to remove it if anyone has any minimally destructive tips or ideas.

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Things that come to mind:
1. Email Tayda and see if they can recommend a solvent
2. Magic eraser + isopropanol (this will dull the enclosure, so, be careful)
3. Sharpie, or the better non glossy permeant markers.
 
Learn to love it. If that was an early Tubescreamer it would that much more valuable because of the "flaw". It could be a lot worse and I suspect any attempt to remove it will make everything much worse.

And it sounds like you need to learn to love yourself more too. Anyone could have made such a dumb, stupid, idiotic and plain reprehensible mistake. Don't be so hard on yourself.
 
Bio77 said:
Things that come to mind:
1. Email Tayda and see if they can recommend a solvent
2. Magic eraser + isopropanol (this will dull the enclosure, so, be careful)
3. Sharpie, or the better non glossy permeant markers.
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I'm worried I'll just make it worse so I may just use a bit of sharpie and call it a lesson
HamishR said:
Learn to love it. If that was an early Tubescreamer it would that much more valuable because of the "flaw". It could be a lot worse and I suspect any attempt to remove it will make everything much worse.

And it sounds like you need to learn to love yourself more too. Anyone could have made such a dumb, stupid, idiotic and plain reprehensible mistake. Don't be so hard on yourself.
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I appreciate the message, I will now list it for sale on reverb as a rare misprint per your advice. Even though this was supposed to be a new product for me, the enclosure is the least of my problems with it, so I'll just chalk it up as a keeper for my enjoyment since building another one doesn't sound like my idea of a good time anyways.

Thanks guys.
 
I got in a couple of prints from Tayda with unexpected white parts that make the control labels nearly unreadable. I sent the first one out as a tester and I don't think my brother has any interest in returning it. I expect the same result when I send the other one out as a demo piece, many people just don't care.

But luckily I do feel like building a couple more, so I'm not beating myself up too much about it. ;)
 
music6000 said:
I've had success with auto clear coat polish with cotton buds but if it starts to remove too much black, Stop!!!
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This is one of their matte black enclosures so I may have to polish the whole thing if I go that route, good to know!
Passinwind said:
I got in a couple of prints from Tayda with unexpected white parts that make the control labels nearly unreadable. I sent the first one out as a tester and I don't think my brother has any interest in returning it. I expect the same result when I send the other one out as a demo piece, many people just don't care.

But luckily I do feel like building a couple more, so I'm not beating myself up too much about it. ;)
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I like this circuit, it works really well as a dual pedal as a psuedo dual channel amp, but 4 hours of assembly time and wiring felt really excessive compared to the maybe hour the single version of the pedal takes, so I'd rather just build two normal ones and shove them in a box instead of doing this clever switching with a 4pdt. Basically my idea was to switch volume, gain, tone and a LED, but having its own PCB would work better for my purposes because the off board wiring was intense.
 
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