How do you install your footswitches ? What to do with the various rings ?

From a cursory search on some old forums some folks do agree that the plastic washers help with shock absorption and increase the life of the switch. I wish they weren’t so ugly! Maybe black nylon would be better.
 
giovanni said:
I wish they weren’t so ugly!
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KR Sound said:
I understand it to be ugly.
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jwyles90 said:
Personally, I hate the way the white washers look
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Hopefully one day you'll come to understand and see the subtle beauty and deep poetry of white washers. Even white doves flying in the summer skies are nothing compared to white washers...

I don't think white washers are an acquired taste, they are obviously amazing, but the modern society, capitalism, blurs our true basic values, such as white washers, and manage to impair our perceptions. This is not your fault.

You believe white washers are ugly probably because your minds are preconditioned ?

Sometimes we need to loose something very important to understand its true value. If they'd stop manufacturing white washers, we would quickly say : "it was better in the good old days, when the oil industry was still making white washers".
 
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The more i build stompboxes, the more i realize white washers are somehow alive, each of them having its own singular character.

...but you have to pay attention and look very closely.

For exemple, they all have a slightly different smell. Just smell a dozen of them really carefully, if you don't believe me.
 
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Didn't read the whole thread.
I e moved to using just a nut and one of these on top


M12x16x.05mm
They are damn near invisible and do what a top washer should do, protect the enclosure from rotation of the nut.
This assumes the hole isn't over drilled, *then* you need structural support.

Underside, lock washer and 1-2 nuts.
 
I never fit the 3PDT footswitch without the white washer or locking washer.
They are both on the inside to lock & absorb the click of the switch.
I lock the inside nut to the bottom of the threads.
I always use a thin dress washer & nut on the top side of the Footswitch.
That's just the way I have always done it!
 
andare said:
Btw I need lock washers for pots and toggle switches, which come without them often enough.
I don't use them with PCBs of course but for off board controls they are necessary and I never know which size to order.
Is it 8mm for pots and 7mm for toggles?
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M6 for toggles, M7 (very uncommon size, LMS sells some) for pots
 
spi said:
The white washers make good spacers for outie jacks (so that they don't have to protrude too much).
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Tbh I kinda like the look of them on “innie” power jacks too (power jack, white washer, enclosure, nut) but to be fair I’m seemingly in the pro-white-washer minority 😂
 
Inside the pedal: bottom nut, washer, lock washer

Outside the pedal: metal dress washer, top nut

Looks nice, holds fast, and drops the level of the top of the footswitch to the level of the knobs for aesthetic purposes.
 
I don't mind if a member of our band puts one of my guitar picks in his pocket.

It would be a whole different story if someone takes a white washer from one of my stompboxes.

This would be too much. I would probably ask for a collective punishment for all band members, and even then i wouldn't forget... Would you ?
 
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The white washer could be a spacer for the inside. Other than that it goes in the jar with the 39 other ones. Much like the breakout boards they provide. Anyone want them let me know.
Lock washer on the inside, metal washer on the outside. You can use the extra nut as a spacer as well. All personal preference.

Jhaneyzz - Those muffler bolt washers are extremely effective in high heat high torque applications.
We fly large scale RC Sport planes and those washer make a huge difference as to whether or not your taking your cowl off and tightening muffler bolts every day you fly.
 
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