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Nice salvage! JB Weld is good stuff.  Often when I do a fill and redrill job I find it necessary to do an additional skim coat of JB Weld using a razor blade as a trowel. 

Is that gray primer or paint in the last pic?  I like that color.

It was actually a two part process.  I backfilled the top row initially and after that cured, I then did a front fill with an old credit card swipe.  The front was sanded afterwards.  I drilled a larger LED hole next to the center footswitch but it was out of line so I filled all of those and did the little 3mm holes instead.

What I did do, was fill the little gaps around the edges with superglue and then sanded that flat.

The paint in the picture is my usual paint - black etching primer - that looked grey in whatever light I took the photo in.  It got a light sand of 800 wet/dry to get rid of all those little bumps over the top.  The sticker goes on after that and it gets 3 coats of Upol Clear to finish.

only those transistors would feel better soldered than in sockets. It will bring in time transient resistance (mostly for oxidation and mechanical shocks during handling) and so worse sound - noise, distortion. My opinion...

Any empirical evidence for that?  I can see them having less possible movement when soldered, but the other stuff....

Zinssers B.I.N primer sealer is a high solids primer that can be easily be sanded without burning through. I use it over self etching primer and it easily builds to hide all the little divots and sinkholes and with sanding it you can get a near perfect paint surface with out cutting back to the metal enclosure.

You can get it in a spray can or bigger tins which is how i buy it and use an airbrush to apply. I paint with artists acrylics over that.dave

... how long will it last, nature abhors a vacuum...

Have only ever use Instagram and on it follow lots of local makers of all description, painters, sculptors, potters, printmakers, woodworkers, luthiers, pickup winders, chefs & cooks, growers/gardeners/farmers, a few tomato breeders from across NA who's tomatoes i grow, local restaurants, vinyl stores and other local businesses i shop, galleries and clubs, local bands. Only place i'll find all my interests in one spot and able to get in touch with people if need be. Even post stuff on it.

I pretty much box everything.... then rock it... then to the shelf where it will stay most of the time

same here

I didn't know there was another way

Sounds about right, it's all about the journey... finishing is pretty anti-climatic.

Yes and no. At the end you have a new toy, then you notice something else all shiny, and you need to have it.


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The shiny new distraction usually appears midway through the current project.

I pretty much box everything.... then rock it... then to the shelf where it will stay most of the time

same here

I didn't know there was another way

Sounds about right, it's all about the journey... finishing is pretty anti-climatic.

This is my visual workbench confession. This image captures the reality of my workbench for about the last year or so. This is one of the reasons why I haven't been building anything. If you are in the same situation, take a pic and post it. It's your "before" pic. Be brave. Let's get these work stations clean and build something dang it!

With the way the interiors of your pedals look, are put together, this is allowed.

Overlap... a few beginning last Saturday.

Our first pizzas of the year, i can't remember ever making  a 'pepperoni' pizza, the time had come. The others, one with dried garden tomatoes, chevre & fresh basil, last a white garlic with bocconcini, a tangy old gouda & extra old white cheddar.




Leftover pepperoni, chevre and part jar of tomato chunks need a use - shakshuka, eggs poached made from whatever is deemed appropriate, needs to be used up.



Saturday was the coldest day of winter so far, a good day for this. I grew up eating 'chili con carne' made with ground beef, canned tomatoes, kidney beans, chili powder... a concoction deemed as not qualifying as chili it seems by many. This recipe from a guy in Austin is made by the Texas rules, no beans, no tomatoes just a reconstituted mix of dried chili's blended into a paste, cubed blade roast (chuck), onions, garlic, cumin, beef and chicken stock & masa harina. I use tomato paste when i make beef stock so i may not qualify for the club. For the time being any way, ragu type dishes are best served atop polenta, for this one add some grated cheese, diced red onion, cilantro and good to go.




Today according to my sources, a single day record for snow fall. A soup that works as well in the middle of summer as it does for a snow storm. Asian informed chicken noodle. Sesame oil coated chicken breasts broiled , stir fried bok choy, carrots, snow peas & shiitake mushrooms, fresh lo mein noodles, bean sprouts, more sesame oil and a heaping spoonful of Sambel Oelek. edit:Turns out a single day snow fall record for the day, more than double the previous record.



Not so new but my take on Christmas dinner this winter, in place of turkey, butter chicken with all the fixings.



Take care.dave

Cooking,  gardening projects and putting in time playing guitars.

Really like tofu as an addition to my vegetable stir fries, three nights a week for decades i've cooked vegetable stir fries for my dinner. Tofu is second only to leftover beef as a protein addition, brown it up like Jon does and then flavour it with  Maggi or Braggs, tamari or a light Chinese soy we always have on hand,  add acouple spoons full of Sambal Oelek to give it some heat. Goes over very well with everyone, people are snatching it and eating before it's ever added into the stir fries, lucky to have any left to add into the stir fries.

Have a good year!
dave

Slowly migrating back into the kitchen, a weekend in Ireland and Italy.

Shrimp pizza with from the garden canned tomatoes, pickled Matchbox & Yellow Biquinho peppers, garlic, two days of dough developing in the fridge and a two stage cook, partially dressed and baked for ~4min then pulled fully dressed and broiled until it looked right.












Guinness Beef Stew







Take care!
dave

I think I must be the only troglodyte left who actually prefers email over social media.

Me too, not that there's much use of email, i do have one friend that by using Instagram i'll get a much more timely response. Have never joined Facebook owned a cell phone of any sort and couldn't tell you the last time i placed a phone call other then to my wife or daughter on the land line here, months & months & months...

Yeah i do, well did club shows, general admission & no seating, get in line for the doors opening, stand for the show and it's 5, 6, 7 hours before you get a chance to sit down again in a restaurant after the show. Last show was July 4 2019, Drive By Truckers, Lee's Palace Toronto. Shows are just slowly starting back up again, nothing to speak of so far.

That's pretty much exactly what I was thinking. There are very few shows I have been to in the past decade or two that involved buying tickets in advance.

Always advance tickets or there'd be no chance of getting in,  pay face value for the tickets months in advance, i do get in line at the venue early and end up with no one other then my wife between me and the stage.

Yeah i do, well did club shows, general admission & no seating, get in line for the doors opening, stand for the show and it's 5, 6, 7 hours before you get a chance to sit down again in a restaurant after the show. Last show was July 4 2019, Drive By Truckers, Lee's Palace Toronto. Shows are just slowly starting back up again, nothing to speak of so far.

Cut down cardboard, magazine holders from Ikea to hold small labelled ziplocs, pack hundreds of resistors and caps into very little space.

https://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=13547.msg124957#msg124957

Last year i used Takman 1/4w metal films for the stepped attenuator i put together for my hifi preamp. Completely happy with the results.

Bought here, they also carry the PRP's, as well as bulk metal films, wire wounds, tantalums, the complete gammit of resistor audio insanity.

https://www.partsconnexion.com/takman-metal-film-rey-series-0-25-watt-resistors.html

Comparing prices with vendors in the UK and USA when i was shopping and they would match if lower but in all cases, for everything i was shopping for they were lowest, that and i can pick up the order.