BYOC Silver Pony, Kit Instructions

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Step 3: Hold the PCB in one hand so that the component side of the PCB is
in the palm of your hand and the bottom side with the pots, toggle switch
and LED is facing up. Now use your other hand to guide the predrilled
enclosure onto the PCB assembly so that the pots, toggle switch and LED all
go into their respective holes. Once the PCB assembly is in place, secure it
by screwing on the washers and nuts for the pots. Only tighten them with
your fingers.
You do not want them very tight yet. Make sure you’ve
removed the nuts and washers from the pots and that you’ve also snapped
the tabs off the pots as well before installing.
Step 4: Turn the entire pedal over so that the component side of the PCB is
facing up. Lift the PCB up off the pots about 2mm just to make sure that the
back of the PCB does not short out against the pots. Make sure the PCB is
level and symmetrically seated inside the enclosure.
Step 5: Solder the pots, toggle switch and LED. You will be soldering on
the component side (top) of the PCB. After you have soldered them in
place, be sure to tighten up their nuts. TIP: only solder one lug of each
component at first. This will secure everything in place and still allow you
to wiggle things around if you need to adjust the fit of anything. Once you
have everything perfect, go ahead and solder everything else.
Before you
solder, be sure to lift the PCB up away from the pots just a little bit. You
don’t want the PCB to short out against the B100k D.G. pot.