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Anyone ever use this pedal (moog minifooger mf boost)? It's super intriguing. Thinking about buying one.  Anyone know of a clone? PCB floating around here under a name not obvious to me perhaps.

Anyone have a good way to do touch up on a toner transfer to copper clad? I got 99% of the toner to stick but a tiny spot got screwed up. I'd hate to re-due it. I was thinking some nail polish maybe? My wife said she as a nail polish pen that has pretty good accuracy. I seem to recall nail polish will resist the ferric chloride. Any ideas?

I think I'm going to convert all my pedals to blue LEDs for indicators. I have a bunch of green and hell if I can tell when they are on or off when I gig outside. Anyone else have trouble seeing green (in the daylight that is) or am I green vision impaired?

How do those of you who use liquid tin dispose of the leftover once you have coated your board? I'm no chemist but I suppose mixing it in my container of used ferric chloride isn't a good idea.

Any stack two fat pants jrs before? Im thinking about putting two in one box. Curious how one driving the other would sound.

Anyone buy copper clad off eBay from Chinese stores? Is it ok or is it junk? Chinese stuff on eBay is always a gamble I feel.

This is my first ever enclosure etch. I don't know why I waited so long to try it. It was a lot of fun and turned out pretty good I think. Next time I need to go longer than 20 mins. I would have liked more depth. I read on the ferric chloride bottle that temperature can effect it. I kept it stored in basement so it was a smidgen cold. Next lesson learned is to etch the drill marks. Don't know why I didn't do this. Not thinking. 
I'd say I'm hooked on etching now. Can't wait for the next one!

Anyway a very special thanks to Stomptown. I got the popped board from him in the BST area and sat on it forever, wish I hadnt. I love the sound. It's super cool. I also followed his etching guide to the letter and it worked perfect! Thanks!!

Oh I also learned fine lines are hard. Notice the "yca" of Lycanthrope didn't come out great. Oh well.

I play guitar in a band like many of you. It's been about 5 years for me with 4 members and 2 with a 5th. The original guitar player invited the 5th guy in and has really never seen eye to eye with him. Last practice they got into it over a song and now one of them wants to quit. Wtf. I see now why bands break up. I can't believe it's over things so petty.  its most annoying to me as we are in talks with being the house band all summer for a bar right down the street from me. And we have 4-5 gigs booked now that would be canceled. How annoying.  I might be looking for a new band soon. 

Anyone ever try the black glass OA7 diodes? I'm thinking about buying a couple but hell they are expensive. Just wondering if anyone experienced any tonal mojo from them..

I want to use one or the other as an end of chain volume boost. Thoughts? I think the fat pants is what I want but I'm not sure. Anyone built these have any thoughts?

Anyone use the bear hug comp with humbuckers?  Thoughts if so? I built an orange squeezer(cupcake) and my 335 57'classics smoke it into distortion. It's totally useless to me.  I built a Ross clone, sounds cool. Seems to strip off too much treble for me. I always struggle with it.   I have an afterlife board but haven't built it yet. Just reading about the bear hug and thought it sounded super cool. Thinking about picking up a board to make it.

Anyone here do their own powder coating? How much actual powder does it take for a 1590B? I'm wondering how many boxes can be covered with an 8oz bottle of powder, I'm real close to buying a gun and trying myself.

I guess this is directed at madbean the man - are project part lists available in excel? looks like the pdf is a paste from excel...

Does anyone know we're I cand find small eyelet or turret boards for fuzz face PTPing? Something that will fit into a 1590BB. I've been searching around and haven't been to pleased with what I've seen.  I like some of the pics from people's builds but he'll if I can find them.

Anyone have luck buying footswitches from Chinese eBay stores? They look like the exact same thing from small bear or mammoth etc. Normally I don't have issues with some electronic parts form various Chinese oems but recently bought some solderwick that turned out to be fake. Just got super hot and didn't suck up solder.  I feel like a mechanical switch could be faked. 

On the deadringer2, Anyone fit the irf510 mosfets into a 1590bb without cutting the heat sinks off? I think they might be too tall. Thought I'd check before I hack them off.

JT

Curious which IC choices people who have built the Kingslayer II used.  I found another thread that said to use TLC074 to get rid of the squeal which totally worked. I also used the TC1044SCPA charge pump. This seems to work fine, pedal sounds good normally. But it gets a squeak that fades out when disconnecting power.   No idea why. I was thinking the charge pump could cause it. The KIngslayer I document mentions something to this effect.  Anyone get that fading squeak?