Gray Bench Electronics builds the Muroidea

Fascinating. Never watched his vids before. Very different build process from mine. 🤔
How different? Do you add solder first, melt it and then quickly stick the components through? :)

I like that he solders one leg, checks alignment and then he solders the other leg. I do this for tall skinny parts that tend to tilt like capacitors.
Low profile parts I press down into blue tack, with tape over them.
 
How different? Do you add solder first, melt it and then quickly stick the components through? :)

I like that he solders one leg, checks alignment and then he solders the other leg. I do this for tall skinny parts that tend to tilt like capacitors.
Low profile parts I press down into blue tack, with tape over them.

It was cool to watch him build. Bunch of differences. Biggest is I wire jacks and switches outside the enclosure then just solder to the pcb after boxing. Rather than trying to wire up jacks and switches in the box.

Feels like this could be a separate thread!
 
I watch his uploads good content… Bought a octave fuzz pcb from him a while back that i haven’t built out yet.. One thing I noticed is how he puts the pots in to line up the pcb.. Therr is nothing more frustrating than trying to do that… When I found a tip from somewhere to bend the pot pins first outward and squeeze them lightly to into the pcb they hold…. Then put it in enclosure… put some nuts on … adjust how it sits and solder one pin on each pot… adjust as needed… The solder moment for his jumper wire was funny… I saw it coming… glad he left it
 
I watch his uploads good content… Bought a octave fuzz pcb from him a while back that i haven’t built out yet.. One thing I noticed is how he puts the pots in to line up the pcb.. Therr is nothing more frustrating than trying to do that… When I found a tip from somewhere to bend the pot pins first outward and squeeze them lightly to into the pcb they hold…. Then put it in enclosure… put some nuts on … adjust how it sits and solder one pin on each pot… adjust as needed… The solder moment for his jumper wire was funny… I saw it coming… glad he left it
Does Joe have a PCB store?
I know he has a Reverb store for his builds.
 
I watch his uploads good content… Bought a octave fuzz pcb from him a while back that i haven’t built out yet.. One thing I noticed is how he puts the pots in to line up the pcb.. Therr is nothing more frustrating than trying to do that… When I found a tip from somewhere to bend the pot pins first outward and squeeze them lightly to into the pcb they hold…. Then put it in enclosure… put some nuts on … adjust how it sits and solder one pin on each pot… adjust as needed… The solder moment for his jumper wire was funny… I saw it coming… glad he left it
I had the opposite thing happen to me... I had a kit that came with a roll of buss wire and I thought it was solder... so after about 20 seconds of me holding it on the component and wondering why the hell it wouldn't fucking melt... oooooouuuuuccchhhh hahahha burnt the shit out of my finger tips. I am a chef so I already don't have feeling in my fingertips. By the time I did feel it, my fingers were a perfectly seared medium rare.... maybe medium haha
 
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