Post-Lockdown pedal building

soma1975

Hi all,

Has anyone painted an enclosure with hammerite/rustoleum?

If so any tips? Did you use a primer? Did you paint or apply with a sponge etc? 

Thinking about doing my fuzz face enclosure racing green. Or maybe late 60s dark grey.

UnclePsychosis

I used spray on hammerite for some of my earliest pedal builds a few years ago.

It works, but it was a bit messy and a bit of a faff to avoid paint runs or getting dust stuck in the paint. If you're patient you can do it. 

soma1975

Trying to get this one as flawless as possible so I figured the spray is out. 

roberty

Alex2678 said:

roberty said:

@Alex2678 that looks cool, how did you get the letters on there?

Stamps, got some rubber stamps and a StazOn ink pad, works on metal and paint 

Cool that sounds more fun than decal paper and Gimp. Could clear coat over the stamping. Hmmm

Alex2678

roberty said:

Alex2678 said:

roberty said:

@Alex2678 that looks cool, how did you get the letters on there?

Stamps, got some rubber stamps and a StazOn ink pad, works on metal and paint 

Cool that sounds more fun than decal paper and Gimp. Could clear coat over the stamping. Hmmm

Doesn’t need any clear, I made a mistake and I had to remove it with isopropyl alcohol, a scouring pad and a lot of elbow grease, day to day use it’s not going anywhere 

roberty

Alex2678 said:

roberty said:

Alex2678 said:

roberty said:

@Alex2678 that looks cool, how did you get the letters on there?

Stamps, got some rubber stamps and a StazOn ink pad, works on metal and paint 

Cool that sounds more fun than decal paper and Gimp. Could clear coat over the stamping. Hmmm

Doesn’t need any clear, I made a mistake and I had to remove it with isopropyl alcohol, a scouring pad and a lot of elbow grease, day to day use it’s not going anywhere 

Haha okay, even easier

roberty

I made this for my bassist Phil a while ago. It's the Big Muff with clean blend control from Fuzz Dog. I went for the civil war circuit. The blend pot was spec'd as 100kA which gave it a very narrow sweet spot towards the end of its travel. I've just changed this to 100kB and It is much easier to use this way. I fucked up the decal and the top labels are too low down, never mind



My beloved Zuul clone randomly stopped working this week. It is sensing the key signal (as indicated by the two-tone LED) and it is passing signal through the gate section but it is not actually gating anything. I need a noise gate so I ordered a factory one. The clone was a real pain to put together physically inside the box but I will try to fix it

stickyfiddle

Love the name  

I need to test my new soldering iron. I think I have a rangemaster kit in the cupboard  

UnclePsychosis

Built a ROG Supreau this evening. Another fuzzdog kit. This one was pretty fiddly, for some reason I really struggled to get the pots in place. 

 

euan

Are you fitting the posts to the enclosure first then soldering the board to them?

UnclePsychosis

euan said:

Are you fitting the posts to the enclosure first then soldering the board to them?

I tend to do that, yes. For some reason this one was really tough. Didn't help that the pins for the volume pot were really tough to access once the other components were soldered. 

stickyfiddle

How do you find the pedal? Sounds like one of the more interesting JHSi in demos (probably because it's a ROG design..)

FWIW I usually add the pots outside the box, resting the pots in the holes from the outside to keep everything still while I solder. 

UnclePsychosis

I finished it late last night so didn't get to play it out loud, just a quick check via headphones to make sure it worked.

Will report back later. 

Alex2678

I usually solder one leg of each pot so it’s held in but there’s some play, reflow it when it’s in the enclosure, then do the rest

roberty

Guess it's not lockdown any more. I haven't really noticed though. I boxed this up tonight, Partridge-themed Fuzz Dog Sunny T which is a tweakable Acapulco Gold. It's really good, does a fairly brutal fuzzy distortion and the EQ is really powerful

roberty

How's the iron @stickyfiddle ?

Cookiemonster

roberty said:

Guess it's not lockdown any more. I haven't really noticed though. I boxed this up tonight, Partridge-themed Fuzz Dog Sunny T which is a tweakable Acapulco Gold. It's really good, does a fairly brutal fuzzy distortion and the EQ is really powerful

Very nice.  

Just finished a delay and reverb In one and add a momentary switch for repeats. 

Will post soon. 

roberty

I think these plain enclosures look better with a touch of colour on them (knobs fnarr)

How does it do the reverb @Cookiemonster is it a brick or FV1? I guess we'll see

Cookiemonster

roberty said:

I think these plain enclosures look better with a touch of colour on them (knobs fnarr)

How does it do the reverb @Cookiemonster is it a brick or FV1? I guess we'll see

The delay is a EQD with a one knob simple reverb. FV1 is definitely on the list next though 

roberty

@Cookiemonster I think Musikding do PCBs with pre-programmed SMD FV1s attached

edit: Jed's Peds do them