A litany of dumbassery

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I tried to build synth modules.
That’s the entire entry.

LOL.

:smiley:

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502

Rookie mistake! :laughing: tiny

503

How ?
Exatly ?
xD

504

Thats actually a great tip !

505

I actually found the slapping technique quite good. but decided not to try that on the safety valve when removing a suspect resistor ( not the 27r ) resorted to heating and pushing the new resistor through.

506

I found the lead (graphite) from a mechanical pencil works pretty well, or just jamming through the leg of the new component while the solder is hot.

507

The thing with a desoldering needle, or a pin, is that you can heat it up with the soldering iron while pushing it into the hole and it might conduct enough heat to melt the solder on the other side. Though a sharp point gets in the way of that. Maybe cut the point off a pin before using it. While wearing safety glasses! But a pointy pin worked for me the other day.

Pushing a single lead through while heating the pad can work okay, but doing a 2- or 3-legged component that way gets tricky.

508

Thanks for that impulse !!!
I would have never picked one up to try without the post of yours.
The cold metal seamingly instantly gets the solder hooked on it and makes it a
great fighter for hole-freedom :slight_smile:

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509

It helps that my soldering bench used to be my ex wife’s sewing table…

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510

It helps that my girlfriend is sewing in the same room where i solder xD xD

511

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512

Man, have I made a lot of rookie mistakes lately:

  1. I thought I was done with my ADSR layout
  2. I thought I was really done with my ADSR layout
  3. I thought I was definitely done with my ADSR layout
  4. I thought I was finally done with my ADSR layout

You’d think I’d learn. All that’s behind me though, because I’m done with my ADSR layout.

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513

Untitled

514

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515

didnt read close enough. put 1n5817s instead of 4148s

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516

I think that will probably still work, it’s just slightly overkill.

517

i cut them out to stick to the original design and soldered 4148s to the pins.

I’m thinking the top half of book case #2 may be all percussion. A shelf of Noise Bells, A shelf of Twin-T drums, a shelf of sample players, and then maybe a shelf of echos (for the percussive sounds) and the 8 step sequencer rebuilt as a 150mm module.

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518

Triple splashback is done! Final check aaaaand all the transistors are backwards.

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519

10k current limiting resistors.

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520

Your resistors are lying to you.

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