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Re: Circuit Carpentry

8/24/2000 9:16 PM
MBSetzer	Re: Circuit Carpentry I did this for a small bread board, lined up rows of nails into a small strip of wood on the bench, also can mount a transformer or two. Added a punched aluminum bracket so the tubes would be horizontal about an inch off the bench with the socket tabs over the wood within proximity to the turrets. Pots were connected to the circuit with fairly long shielded wire and just kind of laid there on the bench. Hard-wired the stripped end of a guitar cord directly to the circuit input without using a phone plug except on the guitar end. Seemed to really work well, especially with the copper nails I found at True Value Hardware, just overgrown tacks but they were pure copper. Nail heads about 1/8 inch diameter, tinned a drop of solder on top of each one, usually just bent leads so the parts would have a little dog-leg and hold by immersing them in the drop on the nail head, not too diffucult to put two or three leads on a nail when needed. For real experimental purposes this seemed the most expedient when you want to rapidly audition dozens of components in a position or two without having it take all night. It's a circuit, it's a board, it's a circuit board Mike

8/24/2000 9:16 PM

MBSetzer

Re: Circuit Carpentry

I did this for a small bread *board*, lined up rows of nails into a small strip of wood on the bench, also can mount a transformer or two. Added a punched aluminum bracket so the tubes would be horizontal about an inch off the bench with the socket tabs over the wood within proximity to the *turrets*. Pots were connected to the circuit with fairly long shielded wire and just kind of laid there on the bench. Hard-wired the stripped end of a guitar cord directly to the circuit input without using a phone plug except on the guitar end.

Seemed to really work well, especially with the copper nails I found at True Value Hardware, just overgrown tacks but they were pure copper. Nail heads about 1/8 inch diameter, tinned a drop of solder on top of each one, usually just bent leads so the parts would have a little dog-leg and hold by immersing them in the drop on the nail head, not too diffucult to put two or three leads on a nail when needed.

For real experimental purposes this seemed the most expedient when you want to rapidly audition dozens of components in a position or two without having it take all night.

It's a circuit, it's a board, it's a circuit board

Mike

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steveR I'd hate to try to get it UL listed... -- 8/25/2000 6:46 PM