Jacks - the most difficult part
The jacks allow some movement inside their
drilling holes. If we just soldered them right
away, we would most probably get into
trouble with the frontpanel not fitting
perfectly to the jacks positions. We must
center the jacks with the frontpanel before
soldering them.
Attention, the jacks wires have sharp edges!
Start by screwing the two 10mm metal
sleeves onto the pcb without using the
polyamid discs. The discs are for protecting
your frontpanel against scratches later.
Put all the jacks onto the pcb (first pic to the
right) - do not solder them yet! The contact
might have beed bend a bit to ensure the
jacks to slip into position.
Put the frontpanel over the jacks and add two
of the screws (now with polyamid discs) above
and below the EQ-drilling holes to clamp pcb
and frontpanel together - now your jacks are
neatly centered.
You can use your forefinger and thumb to
press pcb and frontpanel together helping to
press the jacks further in their pcb-holes. Turn
the whole thing upside down. The pins of the
jacks should look like in the lower photo to
the right. Now solder the jacks and remove
the frontpanel to continue adding the rest of
the parts.
Building instructions 'Eurorack Spring Reverb'
V1.0 - 06.2014
© Stereoping Germany, Hattingen 2014
