recovering the past...

[madbean]

I posted this on Instagram b/c I thought it was funny and very telling of how I've spent the last several years. I spent all of Sunday recovering hardware from old prototypes, abandoned projects, etc. This pic is about 60% of what I got. I think in the end it was like 200+ pots and maybe 50+ switches. The FR-300 desoldering gun and my heat gun made pretty quick work of it although it was like a 6 or 7 hour session!

I still have 2.5 boxes full of old boards still waiting for parts recovery. Mostly transistors and caps (I'm sure a bunch of J201 and tone of Panasonic and AVX caps). Not worth it for resistors.

[jimilee]

Man, that's awesome. I'm starting to build up quite a few boards that sound good, but not great. I was thinking about doing some recovery too. I needs a desoldering iron.


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[Leevibe]

I have stashed or recovered parts that have been given to me by a friend who has been into electronics for years. There's a particular smell to them! Old rosin? Mojo? Don't know what it is but it's real.

[EBK]

There's a particular smell to them! Old rosin? Mojo? Don't know what it is but it's real.

Perhaps phenol formaldehyde resin.  Nice sweet smell of electronic nostalgia. 

[pickdropper]

I have stashed or recovered parts that have been given to me by a friend who has been into electronics for years. There's a particular smell to them! Old rosin? Mojo? Don't know what it is but it's real.

[jjjimi84]

That is incredible! My de-soldering method is heat it up, burn myself, swear, melt the part I wanted, swear some more and then throw it out with a very loud swear word that rhymes with duck.

Wait Jimilee, you don't box everything?!?!?! I think I have been doing this wrong for so long....

[madbean]

Last step is pulling some FV-1s off old builds. I've been able to do this before but I'm going to try a new method this time (ChipQuik) and see if it really is as easy as advertised.

[jimilee]

That is incredible! My de-soldering method is heat it up, burn myself, swear, melt the part I wanted, swear some more and then throw it out with a very loud swear word that rhymes with duck.

Wait Jimilee, you don't box everything?!?!?! I think I have been doing this wrong for so long....

I have been up until recently. Some of the stuff I've built in the last few weeks just aren't getting a box now that I'm having PCBs fabricated.


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[matmosphere]

That is incredible! My de-soldering method is heat it up, burn myself, swear, melt the part I wanted, swear some more and then throw it out with a very loud swear word that rhymes with duck.

Wait Jimilee, you don't box everything?!?!?! I think I have been doing this wrong for so long....

I have been up until recently. Some of the stuff I've built in the last few weeks just aren't getting a box now that I'm having PCBs fabricated.


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Jimi has ascended to the meta-verse of pedal building 


I pretty much box everything.... then rock it... then to the shelf where it will stay most of the time

[peAk]

I pretty much box everything.... then rock it... then to the shelf where it will stay most of the time

same here

[harryklippton]

I pretty much box everything.... then rock it... then to the shelf where it will stay most of the time

same here

I didn't know there was another way

[Haberdasher]

Hah, I bet de-soldering all those parts from all those old projects is a trip down memory lane.
I've been robbing parts off old boards to build new stuff, but I don't have a nice gun like that.  I'd love to have one but man, the good ones are pricy.  I've seen off brand ones going for a little over a hundred but really have no idea how dependable they are in the long term.

[jimilee]

I pretty much box everything.... then rock it... then to the shelf where it will stay most of the time

same here

I didn't know there was another way

This. I don't know what's taking up more room, guitars or pedals.


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[gordo]

Damn Jimi, I'm looking at selling off the Music Man which will be the last of my big ticket guitars.  I'll reduce to a few cheap mutts that play like $$$.  My holdouts are a heavily modified 71 Strat (worthless now with all the mods), and a couple of Lados that were big money in their day but not so much currently.  I offed my Hamer to a guy that thinks it's the greatest thing since sliced bread so big win there.  I swapped my 77 LP Special (badly scarred) for a bottle of bourbon (owner was destined to be it's rightful owner anyway) and I pretty much quit over-drinking over that bottle (not a bad thing).

[harryklippton]

I pretty much box everything.... then rock it... then to the shelf where it will stay most of the time

same here

I didn't know there was another way

This. I don't know what's taking up more room, guitars or pedals.


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Amps for me by far are taking up the most room, and I only have a fraction of what I used to. When we moved into the house almost 8 years ago, half the moving truck was cabs