coolidgeamps wrote: ↑Thu 11/26/20 1:33 pm
@jmpguitars I have a pair of those rounded needle nose in my Digikey shopping cart I want to try them. Sometimes I want to twist a nice circle or J.
You'll love them. They're fantastic, and definitely can help keep things pretty for the OCD.
I use very long slim needle nose pliers a lot because my man sized bear paws are too large for working inside a chassis. The flat spring steel spring half broke during this last build so I'm buying a new higher quality pair with the coil spring.
I think mine are Tekton. I broke my last pair's spring, and they sent me a new pair.
Centering components of course easier for me since I have silk screened the exact size of the component body onto the board.
I really like your boards. I think I may do something similar so I can make an easier kit for my Tremolo TMB project. Either that or have somebody else make the turret boards. I'm too impatient to bulk populate turret boards with my 1/2 ton arbor. I'd have to sell the kits for way too much to excuse the amount of time I would take to do that. Mostly the impatience thing though.
It's funny the little techniques you come up with. I have long been irritated with soldering ground wires to the ground buss across the pots. A big solder glob mess. This build I soldered some eye loops that hang down from the buss wire to attach all those grounds. But how to solder that to the bus wire straight. Solution, took some buss wire, bent one end into a hook, twisted a #8 lock nut to the other end as a weight, hung my eye loop onto the buss wire with this gadget weighting it down straight and level!
Ground busses being on the pots is a potential ground loop issue (no pun intended), and we generally try to avoid them. That said, yours are the best looking ones I've seen.
coolidgeamps wrote: ↑Thu 11/26/20 1:38 pm
One frequently used tool...1 inch piece of painters tape. When clipping excess leads off inside the chassis one thing that will put me into a mood is the clipped off piece shooting off. I'm then either searching for it for 10 minutes or trying to fish out out from under the heater wiring. Annoying! Now I hold this piece of painters tape when clipping like a catchers mitt. 99 times out of 100 the clipped off lead sticks right to the tape, brilliant! lol
Between your OCD and love for blue tape, I'm surprised I have this and you don't:
tape-this.jpg
Side note: I never lose a lead. I clip with one hand, and I hold the piece I'm cutting off with the angled pliers.
Thanks,
Josh
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