Prototype Frantone The Sweet Repair
Added 2019-01-22 22:37:34 +0000 UTCOne of the Frantone The Sweet prototypes I made and sold back in 2000 has come back to the shop for repair, so I took the opportunity to show it in this video. It reveals some of my proven techniques for prototypical construction which I still use today. Enjoy!
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Shoe Goo is still available and still great. E6000 or GOOP is great too,
2019-01-26 17:02:45 +0000 UTCAs we say in New Zealand, “Sweet As” :-) I really enjoyed this look into how prototypes are built (or were in the 1990s), and how to check/repair a somewhat “one off” circuit. Thanks for recording the repair process. Ewen
Ewen McNeill
2019-01-25 07:41:59 +0000 UTCThink he means an auditive demo, not green fluorescence - lol. Yes, as a non-musician myself, it would be great to hear these effects. When you say pedal, is this box mounted inside a pedal like contraption activating that switch? Can't imagine a rock guitarist gently reaching for the switch with the point of his shoe...
2019-01-23 19:16:10 +0000 UTCWho could have guessed that the Heathkit signal tracer would be "pressed" into service so soon after building?
2019-01-23 16:44:14 +0000 UTCBut it's on the scope....
Fran Blanche
2019-01-23 15:20:36 +0000 UTCDemo! Need a demo! Gotta have a demo!
BobC
2019-01-23 04:23:26 +0000 UTCThe Frantone industry is quite similar to the kilnminder (my invention) business.
2019-01-23 03:47:32 +0000 UTCShoe Goo. And then there was Shoe Goo II, not as smelly and not as good.
2019-01-23 03:15:29 +0000 UTCAnd *that's* why it's not hoarding!
Jeffrey R. Broido
2019-01-23 02:13:55 +0000 UTCGot me laughing with the alternative use of the Heathkit signal tracer
2019-01-23 01:50:33 +0000 UTCYour method of using epoxy to mount the standoffs to the panel looks like a good idea. I'm just about to change the controller board in my DIY CNC machine and this method looks like something I could use to simplify this upgrade. Thanks for the idea.
John N Nelson
2019-01-23 01:33:28 +0000 UTCSo this was actually pretty cool and interesting. I have to admit though, that I really don't understand these "pedal effect" gadgets. I gather they are a big part of what you do, or did? Any chance you could actually make a video demonstrating these puppies?
2019-01-23 01:26:54 +0000 UTCSweet.
William Alsing
2019-01-23 00:14:33 +0000 UTCI remember using that kind of (smelly!) glue building models when I was a kid, we just called it rubber cement in the UK. Haven't seen any around for a while.
Adam Robinson
2019-01-22 22:49:04 +0000 UTC
