Re: Anti-Show your Pedal guts Thread - The Tragedies...

Posted by Heath on May 11, 2016; 4:31pm
URL: http://guitar-fx-layouts.238.s1.nabble.com/Anti-Show-your-Pedal-guts-Thread-The-Tragedies-tp30474p30514.html

nocentelli wrote

enclosure that claims to be made of steel but three broken drill bits are adamant is actually a titanium/molybdenum, high strength, military-grade bombproof alloy.

Bwahahaahah!

nocentelli wrote

Re: rage-snapped vero - I have only once lost control of my rational sensibilities once with vero, when I blobbed across the tracks of a particularly involved layout, and then spent a good while carefully smearing more and more solder across tracks THAT WEREN'T ORIGINALLY BRIDGED, more and more, until it resembled more of a giant puddle of solder than a pedal circuit, and in moment of pathetic squawking rage stabbed the bastard through the middle with a screwdriver... after discovering I had also jabbed a good few cubic centimetres of wood out of the kitchen table, I then spent the next hour or so with a tube of superglue and some woodshavings trying to ensure I wouldn't have to explain things in the morning.

Been there!!!  I remember once (yeah, right) I cut a track at the wrong place and tried to solder glob it back together.  Of course well all know that solder only sticks to what solder feels like sticking to and it rarely takes your feeling into account.  So I'm solderglobbing everything in the vicinity of the mis-cut track except the mis-cut track itself.  I'm solder sucking and wicking for all I'm worth while still trying to get that rack back together.  I tried a little piece of copper shielding tape.  Nope.  Tried a left over snip from a resistor, but it tended to cling to the solder tip or scoot sideways, soldering to the wrong stuff, every time.

I finally gave up when the board material began to blacken and the surrounding copper tracks were separating and curling away.


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Anywhere, here is a fail... I don't even have words, except to say that sometimes the part of your brain that recognizes failure (the "Well, Fuckit" part) and the part that is supposed to get that signal and stop trying to fix it (the "Hold my beer, I got this..." part), they don't get that message sent and received fast enough and Fail becomes Epic Fail.