What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

LukeFRC said:
I think it's inspiring.
Think about it, your first pedal build was probably pretty terrible compared to the latest shiny thing that yourtube influencers are telling you you need.
This thread shows that high quality is only a number or steps away!








Steps you might not have the time, skill or inclination to take in your lifetime, but still!
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Thanks for that.

Thanks to you too, @Fama.


Indeed, it is most often inspiring to visit the thread and see what people are accomplishing.

Some days it's dazzling, invigorating and inspiring;
and occasionally, on some down-daze, it can be daunting.


Rome wasn't built in a day, but our new front porch/deck was. Blew my mind how quickly the guys we hired to do it knocked it out. Would've taken me and a friend a week just to figure out what the hell to do, let alone start working on it. Normally you can have 2 out of 3:

  • Fast
  • Cheap
  • Quality
Well we got 2.6 out of 3. For the little money we spent on this contractor, and how quickly they banged out the new porch, the quality is very good. Very happy.


Luke, Fama, and @KreoPensas as well as cheers to @Passinwind 🍻 who always inspires
— thanks for the pep-talk folks —
...going to go tackle some more of that half-dozen small compressors waiting to be finished. 🙏
 
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Damn poor chairmanship cheap bull$h/t!
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$250 wet dry vac, useless because they used a motor cooling fan with a press fit collar instead of something more solid
It works. For now. Until the motor melt through the plastic and fuels it's own firey death, igniting the contents of the vac and the rest of the plastic on its way out.
This definitely seems like a design to fail. It would have only taken a minutely ore expensive part to actually last. I *may* have 20 hours of run time on this. Maybe.
 
Between the Indiana Tweed and Indiana Deluxe there are 10 J201s. While I have used the OG Fairchild transistors, I decided to go with the surface mount transistors on mini boards I got from StompBoxParts. I used old legs I cut off, but a bit of a pain. I fed them through the holes, bent the legs so they wouldn’t slip out, then clamped them in my solder jig and then trimmed them up and bent them back relatively straight. I eventually got the hang of it but not sure if they are worth the hassle. Any tips or tricks? IMG_4255.jpeg
 
Musicjsmith said:
Between the Indiana Tweed and Indiana Deluxe there are 10 J201s. While I have used the OG Fairchild transistors, I decided to go with the surface mount transistors on mini boards I got from StompBoxParts. I used old legs I cut off, but a bit of a pain. I fed them through the holes, bent the legs so they wouldn’t slip out, then clamped them in my solder jig and then trimmed them up and bent them back relatively straight. I eventually got the hang of it but not sure if they are worth the hassle. Any tips or tricks?View attachment 94454
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I have 3 pin angled connectors from somewhere, best I could find on Tayda now was straight https://www.taydaelectronics.com/co...-pin-2-54-mm-single-row-pin-header-strip.html or snip https://www.taydaelectronics.com/co...-pin-2-54-mm-double-row-pin-header-strip.html or https://www.taydaelectronics.com/40-pin-2-54-mm-angle-single-row-pin-header.html into smaller pieces.
 
Modified Sandspur:

Replaced FUZZ pot with 1K trimmer @1K
Added input GAIN pot (clean trimmer @ 0R) and mounted to FUZZ pot physical location via board ground (to be shared by jack)
120pF cap tacked to Q2bc for RF suppression
Socketed transistors, I/O and fuzz caps and bias resistors
Currently has Q1 2N4123 and Q2 2N4400, but will try a few others

Functioning on the bench, box prep WIP..


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On my workbench right now:
6 pedals I've taken apart to apply waterslides
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Several pedals I'm building:
A Speaker Cranker, I want to add a volume pot
A Vibrobot, adding a speed switch
An Aion Elysium, trying to decide whether to mod it with an external pot for the 1st trimpot to control the oscillation
A Parasit Beverly Bitcrusher
And a Moonn Cyberpunk (Atari punk console) I want to box with a Crap Fi delay
 
Finished the touch up work on the Trek madone frame after doing the carbon repair. The finish is not perfect but about as best as it can be without stripping it all down and respraying from scratch.

The black stripe was easy to do since i could shoot black and shoot another level of matte clear 2k over the entire section.

The gloss red was harder. I used a gloss red enamel that was very close but not exact and faded it in. I used Chemguys polishing compounds to burnish it in. If you zoom up you can see the difference. That said, bikes are meant to be ridden.

Going to get it assembler and take it for a cautious ride and assess the frame condition since i am not a carbon repair expert
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Pauleo1214 said:
Finished the touch up work on the Trek madone frame after doing the carbon repair. The finish is not perfect but about as best as it can be without stripping it all down and respraying from scratch.

The black stripe was easy to do since i could shoot black and shoot another level of matte clear 2k over the entire section.

The gloss red was harder. I used a gloss red enamel that was very close but not exact and faded it in. I used Chemguys polishing compounds to burnish it in. If you zoom up you can see the difference. That said, bikes are meant to be ridden.

Going to get it assembler and take it for a cautious ride and assess the frame condition since i am not a carbon repair expert
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Just put a seat on that thing this time.
 
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