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DIY Stompboxes => Building your own stompbox => Topic started by: rasco22862 on October 29, 2006, 09:35:13 PM

Title: Soldering pots
Post by: rasco22862 on October 29, 2006, 09:35:13 PM
Where i should sold the wire? Red zone or Blue Zone?? :icon_mrgreen:
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Title: Re: Soldering pots
Post by: theMACHINE on October 29, 2006, 10:02:11 PM
Blue.
Title: Re: Soldering pots
Post by: 343 Salty Beans on October 29, 2006, 10:29:01 PM
Blue. Pots can get wrecked by heat if you're not too careful. It's not something that's really really easy to do, just don't overheat it.
Title: Re: Soldering pots
Post by: sfr on October 29, 2006, 10:46:06 PM
I have soldered in the "red" zone on a few pots with broken tabs (I don't even remember how I got them) and it worked, but yeah - you should always solder in the "blue" zone.
Title: Re: Soldering pots
Post by: Alex C on October 29, 2006, 11:19:29 PM
The red zone is for loading and unloading only.  There is no parking in the red zone.
Title: Re: Soldering pots
Post by: rosssurf on October 29, 2006, 11:34:53 PM
.................The white zone is for loading and unloading only.  There is no parking in the white zone.
Title: Re: Soldering pots
Post by: trocker767 on October 30, 2006, 12:00:37 AM
Blue Zone for sure. Its kinda like transistors, if you keep the iron on there too long it'll kill em, but if your quick and smart you'll be fine.
But don't do that for transistors anyways, i've killed many in my day. ;)
Title: Re: Soldering pots
Post by: captntasty on October 30, 2006, 05:48:28 AM
You had to go and cheat on me with that white zone *^%$*, didn't you?
Title: Re: Soldering pots
Post by: Ronsonic on October 30, 2006, 10:21:42 AM

This is America, we've got red, white and blue zones.

You can solder in the red zone. I'll do that if I run out of space or the lug's broken and a repair isn't worth replacing the pot.

Mostly keep it in the blue zone, unless you're looking at an electoral map.

Even if you vote blue, the red zones are nicer places to live.

Ron
Title: Re: Soldering pots
Post by: 343 Salty Beans on October 30, 2006, 11:20:26 AM
I'm glad threads turn into this  ;D it's what makes this forum better than the other ones.
Title: Re: Soldering pots
Post by: trocker767 on October 30, 2006, 05:59:52 PM
Yeah man, im new to this forum and it rocks and i've learned so much in the past couple of days!