Dammit.paramix pcb is dead.those things are damn near impossible to desolder.trashed the board,luckily I have another one.give it a week and start over. ;D
I know the feeling, man. I've only trashed two PCB's ever, and both were in the "early" days and due to desoldering issues/pads lifting due to heat (bear in mind I've only been at this a little over a year). Do you use desoldering wick or a desoldering pump? I am a pumper myself.
Hell, I've burnt/lifted since then, but now make ghetto resistor leg jumpers to make the needed connection. ;D
I'm guessing you bought the new guitarpcb tabbed version, which are a bitch to desolder because the eyelets are too small. I ruined one of the chilicons trying to remove a pot.
Quote from: GermanCdn on January 07, 2013, 04:21:55 AM
I'm guessing you bought the new guitarpcb tabbed version, which are a bitch to desolder because the eyelets are too small. I ruined one of the chilicons trying to remove a pot.
Yeah it was. I use a desoldering iron and it just won't grab it. I couldn't tin the wires because the holes are too small and they tend to break when you do it that way.apparently they have 2 or 3 build documents on their web site and I was using the wrong one. So while desoldering a resister I broke a wire and screwed up the rest. F it cut the wires off trashed it.i will live to fight another day.maybe build another Paramix one day,just not anytime soon.
Oh man, those tiny eyelets'll get ya. I prefer solid-core or pre-tinned wire in general, especially for those boards since tinning just makes stranded wire too bulky.
Quote from: whitebread47 on January 07, 2013, 05:13:51 AM
Oh man, those tiny eyelets'll get ya. I prefer solid-core or pre-tinned wire in general, especially for those boards since tinning just makes stranded wire too bulky.
I'll try some of the retained wire.solid core seems a bit brittle to me.especially with the 6 jacks the Paramix has.