After finishing the ESV Fuzz and loving it, I painted the Ping Pong Delay case and was excited to finish assembling this pedal, but. . .
. . .discovered that the black caps that I soldered to the underside of the board--standing up--actually block the pots. I am frankly a bit dumbfounded, as I closely followed these instructions in the PDF:
If your kit came with the small black aluminum electrolytic caps, just add them to the underside of the PCB normally. If your kit came with the larger light blue aluminum electrolytic caps, you will need to bend them down so that they lay flat against the PCB.
I am not quite sure what to do at this point, because I have already soldered all components on the top of the board, including the DIP sockets--two of which now block my ability to desolder the caps. And, even if i could desolder the three black caps, I have clipped their leads so closely as to make it impossible to hard-fix them to the board again.
|