Danelectro French Toast Re-Housing... almost done!

[fattcamp]

Hey all. Almost done a french toast rehousing for a friend. I read up on another post about the led trick off of one of the IC lugs. That works fine. I've wired up a dc jack and whatnot and learned the hard way about the momentary switch and how a true bypass isn't really worth it for this little guy.... here's my issue

1. Radio interference up the ying-yang. Can't seem to stop it (with 9v or adapter) with 2 shielded 1/4" cables and velcro preventing board from touch metal case.
2. I purchased one of these (http://www.smallbearelec.com/Detail.bok?no=25 from small bear (x-wing momentary dpdt switch) and when bypassed, i still get some extra gain and muddyness that is definitely not even close to a direct signal.

something doesn't seem right but all controls on the pedal do what they're supposed to do. any ideas anyone? I've looked through the other danelectro mod/ftm/threads but can't find any details on these particular issues and everything appears to be grounded. is this the right switch? the original switch works fine but i need something to stomp on that's a little more heavy duty and the small bear switch was the closest i could find. thanks in advance ya'll!

-Dave

[Andi]

For the RF interference I'd check that the casing is properly grounded.

[fattcamp]

Thanks for the response. How exactly would I go about properly grounding the case?

*update* i placed the original switch back in and the strange semi-bypassed signal is still there so it doesn't look like the momentary switch from small bear is the problem....

-dave

[Andi]

You just need to make sure it has a connection back to ground - usually either with jacks that short the sleeve to the casing or a wire trapped under a pot or similar. Or solder a ground wire to the back of a pot. Anything to get the casing grounded, if it's not already.

[fattcamp]

hmmm... I havn't had a problem with any pedals I've built from scratch, and that's probably because i know exactly where every ground connection goes. In this thing, I'm not really sure what's what. I thought I had wired it correctly. Anywhere I took a wire or component out, I replaced it accordingly. For the record, I do have the ground already soldered to one of the pots and chained them accross all 3 pots just to make sure. Same problem!

Also, anyone have anything on the bypassed muddy slightly gritty tone? I don't want to fuzz with a true bypass but i can't figure out why the orginal switch or the replaced small bear switch don't allow proper bypassing. thanks all

-Dave

[fattcamp]

I wonder if this is of any significance at all:

The slots that the original momentary switch fits into (6 slots for switch pins) are quite weak and small rings of copper came out and some of the pins are not actually making contact with metal on the other side. could this have anything to do with the bypass/rf issue? IT doesn't want to take a solder and maybe this is crucial to the connection. just a thought.

-dave