Dear Madbean, I never thought this would happen to me, but...

[Jebus]

Don't you know what it means to become a double-socket guy? It changes everything. I'd have to dress different. I'd have to act different. I'd have to grow a moustache and get all kinds of robes and lotions and I'd need a new bedspread and new curtains I'd have to get thick carpeting and weirdo lighting. I'd have to get new friends. I'd have to get double-socket friends. ... No, I'm not ready for it.

   

[icecycle66]

Huh. Would have been easier to deliberately create a solder bridge on the bottom of the board (where the original socket is soldered in.)

Unless the solution we came up with wasn't really the solution. Then I would have to clean the board off (and repair the trace cut that would have been necessary).  I think trashing a 8 cent socket is much easier.

[Govmnt_Lacky]

We didn't know the legs needed to be soldered together until after the board was populated.

We??

So, there was more than one person involved in the "double socket" decision? Makes it that much better...

[Haberdasher]

haha, youse guys.  angelo is helping us with a prototype since he has the original vintage pedal, and I don't.  so it's a prototype we are monkeying with, not a verified project he did that on.
here's the story.  one leg of that ic needed to be disconnected from the pcb, and connected to that other leg at the same time.  so it was either double stack & solder the legs of the second socket the way he did, or bend out and solder legs of that somewhat rare ic he wanted to protect, or cut a trace on top of the pcb, which is pretty crowded (and would have been permanent).  it was a good, non-invasive solution for the pcb and the chip.

[AntKnee]

Better keep trauma to that IC to a minimum so it can smoothly transition back into the wild. You don't want PETIC coming down on you!

[Govmnt_Lacky]

haha, youse guys.  angelo is helping us with a prototype since he has the original vintage pedal, and I don't.  so it's a prototype we are monkeying with, not a verified project he did that on.
here's the story.  one leg of that ic needed to be disconnected from the pcb, and connected to that other leg at the same time.  so it was either double stack & solder the legs of the second socket the way he did, or bend out and solder legs of that somewhat rare ic he wanted to protect, or cut a trace on top of the pcb, which is pretty crowded (and would have been permanent).  it was a good, non-invasive solution for the pcb and the chip.

LOL. I see now... Rock on with your bad selves!!

What is the IC that is being protected?

[icecycle66]

Better keep trauma to that IC to a minimum so it can smoothly transition back into the wild. You don't want PETIC coming down on you!

Each IC is tagged and tracked through the wild by the Mitsubishi corporation.  We have to request and obtain them from the Integrated Circuit Reintegration Preserve.

[m-Kresol]

Man this made is wonderful. Although I thought that you just did that accidentally. Doing it on purpose makes it only half as funny. Still hilarious though 

[Haberdasher]

I thought it was funny because it was like a dear penthouse letter, but I guess you guys never read those, right? 

[Mojo Fandangle]

Mojo socket

[mrclean77]

Mojo socket

I was gonna ask if you used an NOS socket

[icecycle66]

Mojo socket

That gives me an idea.
Solder a bottom socket onto a board.
The oxidize other sockets to different levels.
Put in your op amp, and feel that vintage mojo.

[chromesphere]

haha, youse guys.  angelo is helping us with a prototype since he has the original vintage pedal, and I don't.  so it's a prototype we are monkeying with, not a verified project he did that on.
here's the story.  one leg of that ic needed to be disconnected from the pcb, and connected to that other leg at the same time.  so it was either double stack & solder the legs of the second socket the way he did, or bend out and solder legs of that somewhat rare ic he wanted to protect, or cut a trace on top of the pcb, which is pretty crowded (and would have been permanent).  it was a good, non-invasive solution for the pcb and the chip.

Fair enough...id say you 2 are still on the FBI watch list though...I know I personally am going to be watching you both with suspicion.