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Howdy! First build here - pedal works just fine except I had the volume knob wired backwards. As luck would have it, I trashed one of the eyelet / through hole things trying to re-do the job. I've done a little bit of reading on here and it seems like the right move is to just wire up the component that would go in that hole to the next thing in the chain. I'm having a bit of an issue trying to figure out what the next thing in the chain is, in this case:


The circled hole is the one I broke; should the wire instead go to 1 or 2? Or maybe somewhere else... Thanks!

That's eyelet 1 of the volume pot? The good news is that's just a ground connection, so you could connect that wire to a lot of different places. The sleeve of either jack would be good. Or one of the ground eyelets on the PCB.

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Doesn't matter because your broken eyelet and both of those additional points are all connected to the same trace, but I would normally go to #1 since it's the closest. However, you have other options in this case, because the trace in question is the ground connection. So your could run a wire from that leg of the volume pot to any convenient grounded point in the pedal and get the same result.

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Thank you so much, guys! I'm back in business.

One additional thing I should mention: In this case, the damaged eyelet is on a "side street" off of the ground trace, so running a single wire gets you back in business. But sometimes traces go straight through an eyelet, so if the entire through-hole sleeve is destroyed, breaking the trace connections on either side, you'd have to run a wire to each of the adjacent connections. See marked up image below of this type of eyelet, showing how two wires could have to be connected to the component lead coming through the damaged eyelet.

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