What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

dawson said:
About to test this little monster:

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It's an 'Up, Down Daddy' octave by Delyk PCB-
If it doesn't fire right up I'm SO f%^&cked. :)
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Oh man, you’re gonna DO IT AGAIN!!

Btw, are those TDK MLCCs?
 
Alright first test results are in: if anybody guessed that it was going to fire right up nice for me.. you guessed wrong! 🙃
Yet another seven years of shame upon my family if I can't get it trouble-shat.

Nic said:
How do you curve those leads ? They all look the same. I like what you did on yhe pots!
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I wrap them around the shank of a li'l screwdriver.

benny_profane said:
Oh man, you’re gonna DO IT AGAIN!!

Btw, are those TDK MLCCs?
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Yeah, they're the TDK's from Mouser.
 
Fama said:
Goddammit, I was wondering it seemed so strange to do the enclosure work here. And now I either need to finish it like this and have all the labels the wrong way around, or desolder the switches and pots. For fucks sake.

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I’ve been there. I don’t think I made it quite that far before I realized my mistake though! 🤣.
 
I was working on a prototype yesterday and realized after fully populating the board that two toggle switches are too close together....

Didn't even continue, just tossed the whole damned thing into the trash...


Today? I'm measuring the width of various toggle switches and updating my component libraries. :ROFLMAO:
 
KR Sound said:
And your knobs will be working backwards too :(
Call it the Zzuf
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Hahahaha, I can relate. Designed a board and had a couple of the pots wired backwards. I assembled and started testing it out and was like, what the heck??? So now I have a pedal that does mostly everything backwards 🤣
 
Robert said:
I was working on a prototype yesterday and realized after fully populating the board that two toggle switches are too close together....

Didn't even continue, just tossed the whole damned thing into the trash...


Today? I'm measuring the width of various toggle switches and updating my component libraries. :ROFLMAO:
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Yep. I had to go with PCB mount instead of solder lugs. Tossed it out as well.
 
Fama said:
Goddammit, I was wondering it seemed so strange to do the enclosure work here. And now I either need to finish it like this and have all the labels the wrong way around, or desolder the switches and pots. For fucks sake.

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Pots are easy with a solder sucker and wick. Switches are not as easy, which is why I stopped filling the holes with solder about 6 months ago.
 
jimilee said:
Pots are easy with a solder sucker and wick. Switches are not as easy, which is why I stopped filling the holes with solder about 6 months ago.
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I was quite angry earlier and to be honest I got a little bit more pissed after posting because I knew someone will comment "desoldering is easy".

It's not. At least not for me (edit: and for a lot of other people too, FWIW). I don't know if it's the solder (remember, non-leaded only for me), the iron or the sucker that sucks (in the wrong way), but it's hell. I don't have any solder wick right now, but I did earlier and that never worked either.

I ended up getting the hot air and soldering station someone linked from Aliexpress, I'll just shelve this for now until that gets here and hope that the PCB is still salvageable. If not I'll have to get a new one I guess.
 
Fama said:
I don't know if it's the solder (remember, non-leaded only for me), the iron or the sucker that sucks (in the wrong way), but it's hell.
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Lead free is definitely much more tricky to desolder in my experience. People complain about it being difficult to solder with as well, but that’s not my experience— lead free isn’t much more work to use, but it’s waaaay harder to undo.

Also, I’ve never had luck with a desoldering wick/braid. Solder suckers are nice, and I also dig desoldering needles (before I had a set, I would use a stainless steel paper clip or a tiny jewelers screwdriver, but the hollow needle is a bit better), but the wick/braid stuff is an utter pain in the ass— never wicks much of anything up
 
Fama said:
I was quite angry earlier and to be honest I got a little bit more pissed after posting because I knew someone will comment "desoldering is easy".

It's not. At least not for me (edit: and for a lot of other people too, FWIW). I don't know if it's the solder (remember, non-leaded only for me), the iron or the sucker that sucks (in the wrong way), but it's hell. I don't have any solder wick right now, but I did earlier and that never worked either.

I ended up getting the hot air and soldering station someone linked from Aliexpress, I'll just shelve this for now until that gets here and hope that the PCB is still salvageable. If not I'll have to get a new one I guess.
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Pots really are doable, but the switches probably wouldn’t survive. Just try it as is. I built a couple of fuzzes cut-only but otherwise sound grrrrreat.
 
Bricksnbeatles said:
Lead free is definitely much more tricky to desolder in my experience. People complain about it being difficult to solder with as well, but that’s not my experience— lead free isn’t much more work to use, but it’s waaaay harder to undo.

Also, I’ve never had luck with a desoldering wick/braid. Solder suckers are nice, and I also dig desoldering needles (before I had a set, I would use a stainless steel paper clip or a tiny jewelers screwdriver, but the hollow needle is a bit better), but the wick/braid stuff is an utter pain in the ass— never wicks much of anything up
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IMNSHO a lot of desoldering braid is duff, especially the off brands. I've had outstanding results with the Aven products, FWIW. Mouser carries it. Some of the duff shizz can be made to work better with an application of flux, but by then you could've just bought properly pre-fluxed braid. And off course you still need to pre-tin the braid in any case.
 
Fama said:
I was quite angry earlier and to be honest I got a little bit more pissed after posting because I knew someone will comment "desoldering is easy".

It's not. At least not for me (edit: and for a lot of other people too, FWIW). I don't know if it's the solder (remember, non-leaded only for me), the iron or the sucker that sucks (in the wrong way), but it's hell. I don't have any solder wick right now, but I did earlier and that never worked either.

I ended up getting the hot air and soldering station someone linked from Aliexpress, I'll just shelve this for now until that gets here and hope that the PCB is still salvageable. If not I'll have to get a new one I guess.
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I feel you. I hate desoldering too. I find it really really hard to pull off without trashing the board or other components.
 
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