Constant sorrow: i need advise:P

[Gledison]

Hello Folks!
As usual i've found troubles on my way!😫
Normally the standard radial caps were fitting so far in my builds! Now i've built a zsro point delay and the caps are on the edges of the board and of course, i cant close the lid!
I have no low profile caps and i find quite hard to find them in Germany.
My question would be: can i solder the lids of the caps a little longer in order to bend them a little? I've seen people doing tricks with resistors but never with caps!
Thanks for any help!

[m-Kresol]

I guess, it should work. I don't see any reason why not.

Where from Germany are you exactly? Where do you source your stuff. I generally have the opinion to source locally to minimize transport times (and shipping costs), but I'm just having the problem that my shipping from musikding.de got lost apparently. It's been 2.5 weeks since they shipped. Also, shipping is really heavy since from germany to austria it's already considered "international". I guess, I will start sourcing from smallbear, etc.

[muddyfox]

Hmmm... your board really shouldn't be this high... Why is it tilted? What's underneath that's pushing it up this much?

[Cortexturizer]

board mounted pots? is it possible to unmount them, make the lugs shorter, and that way make the board lower? really shouldn't be so high...

[Gledison]

Hmmm... your board really shouldn't be this high... Why is it tilted? What's underneath that's pushing it up this much?

I have mounted pots and a dpdt switch that is setting the high!

[Gledison]

I guess, it should work. I don't see any reason why not.

Where from Germany are you exactly? Where do you source your stuff. I generally have the opinion to source locally to minimize transport times (and shipping costs), but I'm just having the problem that my shipping from musikding.de got lost apparently. It's been 2.5 weeks since they shipped. Also, shipping is really heavy since from germany to austria it's already considered "international". I guess, I will start sourcing from smallbear, etc.

Hey mate.
Im located in Mannheim, close to Heidelberg.
Recently I'm ordering from Banzai. Sometimes i order from Tayda but takes 3 to 4 weeks to arrive, plus the lottery with the customs!:S

[muddyfox]

Did you remove enough of all the nuts and washers from the dpdt? Sometimes I had issues when I went switch-nut-enclosure-washer-nut, switch-enclosure-washer-nut made it work although it's harder to make it not move arount that way.

Which cap values are the issue here? I have some low profiles and I can send you some. Should reach you within a week...

[hoodoo]

Chromesphere, on this forum, also sells low profile caps cheap, look in the buy and sell area 

[RobA]

As long as they leads don't contact anything, it's fine to bend the caps over. There are plenty of boards out there that have the caps bent all the way flat, particularly on older designs.

[stevie1556]

As long as they leads don't contact anything, it's fine to bend the caps over. There are plenty of boards out there that have the caps bent all the way flat, particularly on older designs.

Agreed.

I think I've got some low profile caps. If you want a few for the build then let me know as I'm not really using them anymore. I'll need to double check what I've got first.

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[Gledison]

Thanks a lot guys for the offer.
i removed all the nuts and i will try to remove the protective caps of the pots. maybe i will gain some mm there.
If doesnt work, i will just bend the bloody bastards...
thanks a lot!

[AllenM]

Another little trick would be to place some of components on the opposite side of the board so you have more room to bend them to make them lay flat. Not sure if that would help in this situation but I have done it a time or two.

AlllenM

[wgc]

You could also remove a bit of the lip on the lid with a file

[pickdropper]

You could also remove a bit of the lip on the lid with a file

Yeah, I've done that before.  I mill it down, but a file would work too.

[icecycle66]

You could put the caps on the other side of the board.