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http://www.goldenpaints.com/products/color/fluid/

To airbrush the Goldens they should be diluted with their airbrush medium or similar product. They have all kinds of different mediums and gels to mix with the paints to achieve different effects.

http://www.autoaircolors.com/index.html
http://www.createxcolors.com/

The above two have become hard to source around here so any new purchases have been for the Golden line of materials which are far more adaptable to different techniques.

dave

Golden Artists Acrylics with airbrush or paintbrush (and/or anything else at all that can be used to transfer/move paint around.)

Createx Airbrush paint and AutoAir, i believe the same manufacturer.

All waterborne and can use indoors the year 'round.

From these...



... my daughter brought home...



... and with ears like those you're not allowed to crank it up... unless the keepers of the livestock aren't home.

dave

Good place to start for tube stuff would be Merlin's site. His book on preamp design is very good expanding greatly on the website info. The website looks at power supplies/grounding and power amps as well as preamps (and a few original pedal designs.)

Merlin shows up regularly at diystompboxes and various other amp building forums as well has had stuff published in AudioXpress magazine.

http://www.valvewizard.co.uk/

Ok...my confession time... 

This is my 66th post, and I've yet to build a pedal...  I've been stuck on the part sourcing step for a while...  I really don't want to miss a part and have to reorder.  Also, I want to get enough parts for several builds. 

The curse of this hobby seems to be no matter how much stuff you accumulate, no matter how long you've been at this... the next build requires something you don't have on hand.

Moment of Truth? or reality check... I'm guessing here.

If you are going for 1590A size, I think the easiest bet is to still wire them the long way (no switch PCB).

I would have thought of this as the short way 'round, half as many solder joints to be made and as such their use for standard switching setups with big blue 3pdt switches totally puzzles me.
dave

Those came out super nice!

Are the sides done as well or like in the tutorial only the tops. If the sides were done how smooth does the epoxy sit on them, did you have to manipulate it in any way to get flat?

Great job!
dave

To enhance the grip of nut drivers on the thin nuts used for electronic components i ground them down so the bevel you see inside the sockets is gone, end of slippage.

Have one of those StewMac spanners as well, they're great, how else would you tighten a knurled round nut without one?

To protect the enclosure  while tightening the nuts, cut some strips from transparency plastic, used a Olfa circle cutter to cut various sized holes in them slightly bigger then the different sizes of nuts. Place them around nut and the wrench doesn't touch the finished surface of the enclosure.

You could replace that pot you have with a 10k resistor from the power rail => collector and see if it has any effect on your voltages but i think it's probably something else.

Are you certain of the pinout of the transistor you're using?

Would you have a breadboard, nice simple circuit to set up on the breadboard and get working before committing to a pcb.
dave

With the pancakes i received the plug's shafts would turn in the body and was also missing a screw as well so i'd say lesson learned.

I've seen clones of the blue one around here but are those going to be any good and a quick look around the net for real ones turned up at least one place that was more expensive then Adafruit's Engineer so i figure might as well go for the primo toy...  late Christmas/early birthday present.

Take care,
dave

17.50 for the pump.  16 bucks to ship to Australia....I guess I choose to live on an island in the middle of no where right...?

One of the few options for me was to buy in Australia for $35 and then ship to Canada for who knows how much. The only Canadian source i came across was Amazon.ca, they want $54 for the pump plus shipping then 13% tax,  Adafruit's shipping is ~$12 so i'm way ahead with Adafruit.

dave

I use a very fine saw, kerf of .010".

Guys, Adafruit has the ENGINEER SS-02 Solder Sucker for $17.50, even with shipping to Canada, if it's as good as they say, a bargain!

http://www.adafruit.com/product/1597

dave