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  • ROOGROOG Frets: 549
    edited October 2013
    stickyfiddle showed us:

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    Neat idea the battery on a lead thing. Have a wisdom

     

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  • stickyfiddlestickyfiddle Frets: 24852
    After getting extremely confused by the "Fäctory" knobs, I decided to get me a label maker. Much easier than transfers & waterslides, and leans further on the industrialish look (I don't want to say "Cornish", but maybe a bit Cornish looking ;) )

    I like!

      Clone Pedals- fully labelled
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  • ddloopingddlooping Frets: 325
    Cool stuff, Mike. :)
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  • juansolojuansolo Frets: 1772
    I re-did the adhesive decal tutorial if you fancy giving them a go: http://juansolo.demon.co.uk/stompage/finishing.html
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  • stickyfiddlestickyfiddle Frets: 24852
    Now that actually looks straightforward enough to give it a try... :D

    Cheers!
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  • dindudedindude Frets: 8409

    Looking good Sticky.

    If you want competition stripes, rather than spraying, I've used these sticky vinyl pin-stripes before on a few volume boxes I've made and they work a treat. Can get them in single or double (pre-spaced) stripes.

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Car-GO-FASTER-STRIPES-PIN-STRIPING-3mm-x-10m-BLUE-/270414910011?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item3ef5fc123b

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  • ROOGROOG Frets: 549
    juansolo said:
    I re-did the adhesive decal tutorial if you fancy giving them a go: http://juansolo.demon.co.uk/stompage/finishing.html

    Hi @juansolo, thanks for the link, I've not used Envirotex, a quick search on youtube helped too.

    I'm interested to know, how thick does the coating end up?

     

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  • juansolojuansolo Frets: 1772
    edited October 2013
    As thick as you make it ;) But generally around 0.5-1.5mm thick. There or thereabouts.
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  • juansolojuansolo Frets: 1772
    stickyfiddle said:
    Now that actually looks straightforward enough to give it a try... :D

    Cheers!
    It takes practice to be fair. But it's worth the effort. I've not found a better way of doing these sorts of decals in the DIY domain. It's so damned tough. Then again it should be, it's original purpose was for coating bar tops!
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  • MaxiMaxi Frets: 13
    edited October 2013
    "Could do with a washer under the pots to lower the knobs a smidge," What I tend to do is mount my pots to a thin strip alloy plate / sheet cut to shape and drill the holes for the location pins to sit in , that way the pots are the right height and locked and no location holes evident on the diecast box . Nuts washers go outside as usual .image
    Flown the nest .
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  • AidanspaghettiAidanspaghetti Frets: 806
    I love these threads and am going to grow a pair and order a fewe kits...
    Anybody built one of the bitsbox clones?
    Do they sound good? / Easy enough for a noob? 
    Cheers....

    (Really want a deep blue delay clone plus a klon!)
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  • stickyfiddlestickyfiddle Frets: 24852
    The bitsbox ones are on vero, rather than PCBs, which is fine, but an extra step more complicated if you're a noob. If you've soldered before and are happy drilling & jumpering the vero then they'd be fine I'm sure. 

    If you're worried I'd start with something simple like the pedalparts Blaster or Boner boosts - one pot attached to the board and only a handful of components. Always good to get a bit of confidence with something cheap and small, then you'll realise that the process is the same for huge builds, just with more soldering. And with all these things, double and triple check your components are in the right places before soldering. I find I mis-read resistors codes and that's always the thing I cock up on if I'm going to :)
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  • MaxiMaxi Frets: 13
    edited October 2013
    I cant delete this post aaargh !
    Flown the nest .
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  • MaxiMaxi Frets: 13
    juansolo said:
    I do warn you though, it's a bit addictive :)

    When you start getting away from kits, make yourself something like this:

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    What that'll allow you to do is test circuits before you box them. In the pic it has spring clip terminals, I've since swapped it to connector block as the clips broke through use. It'll make your life massively easier.

    Or you can insert and solder these to the main board and use bell wire instead of multi strand wire . If theres something up with the board you just pull out the wires .

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  • AidanspaghettiAidanspaghetti Frets: 806
    Thanks sticky fiddle.. I'll learn to crawl before I challenge Bolt to a race ;)
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