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I was surprised at the range in prices of them.

How long have you been waiting to use that joke....

I'm as confused as you. The price differences for solder is quite large. Does paying more get you that much better? Not even sure I know what better even means 🤔

Any recommendations for decent solder to go with the soldering iron please? Just ordered the £12 Amazon one andwondered if people can suggest a decent roll of solder to go with it. Thanks Rob

The original owner was Pete Townsend.... That's why it needed a restoration...

Any orders I have made from Thommann seem to follow the same model of going around the back of the moon as well. I made the stupid mistake of amending my order around 30 mins after placing it. I gave up trying to work out what was coming and when, I'd read the vast number of emails sent and they seemed to add no information whatsoever. I can't recall who the delivery people were, but as somebody has already said, none of the tracking information worked at all. To be fair, I got what I ordered, but I had no idea what was going on, what would be delivered and when it would be delivered. Took around two weeks for it all to come. I have a feeling that their system is SAP based as it has the stench of SAP about it all and they are a German company (I think) Rob

But we're all mad. Corrected that for you. No need to thank me 😁

No, I AM Melvyn Whittaker

Hi @80Hz As somebody else has said the petting zoo is as good a description as I've heard. I may well change the title of this thread to just that We have family in York (Fulford) so we come over to York regularly. Partly to see family but also to check on what Geoff has in RWB guitars on Bridge St. Do not worry about bringing lots of gear, I can assure if it's anything like last year, you'll have lots of things to pet. The aim is to have some fun, play stuff you might never get the chance to play, marvel at @LukeFRC pedal collection, wind the volume up whilst comparing various bass heads and generally chill out. Come and go as you please, it's exceptionally laid back, its a small village and we might get a few people pop their noses in, but its minimal fuss. You are very welcome, it's two hours or so depending on traffic through Harrogate and Ilkley. Rob

Is that before he learnt to put them back together?

100% agree.

I look forward to that. A Pi 4 is quite low powered relative to a pair of Xeon's, but compared to the stuff in guitar pedals, its a crazy power hungry monster.

So you can run a Pi off this powerbank. Not sure which Pi you have is but none are that low powered, therefore I would suspect that the outputs on this powerbank are not isolated and if you can put the juice in, any one socket could consume all or most of the juice. That might explain why its £8 delivered from China That looks a decent powerpack. How long does it last with an HX Stomp and Pi devouring it Thanks Rob

Its powered from a USB type power supply (I think) Here's the specs. ■ 8 Isolated DC Output ■ 8 LED lights are used for lighting indication in dark environment ■ Independent short-circuit protection, when one output is short-circuited, other outputs can still work ■Power input: Type-C 5V 2A ■Power output: 6 ways DC 9V 100mA, 2 ways DC 9V 300mA ■Low noise fully Isolated output DC power supply provides stable and clean power to your equipment to ensure that your effector works perfectly and produces the best effect sound So connect it to a mains plug with a USB socket and it should work. Total output is 1.2A so within USB C spec. e.g. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Charge-Charging-Adapter-iPhone-Samsung-White/dp/B0BKP1QMBB/ref=sr_1_9?crid=FNKQTC4O6RJS&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.wAev9J2Vkkj3msC3yqHFTifbKxjujtBCyemgr_5ihpWD43bR--maOt9yfxvK1gyRLXpDIRLja_uRNFjUH9DafO1RPfQOQ2NWQH8htRZ1zd3yHGmI3xSdY9qpIEgKoblmM9_oMmgaIeP1ugieCc5dHelqrGRDeTOTJ_TDzKeKDTVUpOHqTaLrvquiM4-zgRjUtSHXVO9ReRU7dw1Qy4UIzpCkpyVCrDegEwoprMncGfg.rOCDnqYUQTR_MWVVY6YiuFnRLROKTmhnNzl0SMa9ozw&dib_tag=se&keywords=USB+plug+C&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1737116330&sprefix=usb+plug+c%2Caps%2C86&sr=8-9 Rob

For that price (£8 inc delivery) I've ordered one of those. I did pass on the washable nose hair trimmer for £1 though...

Si Have a look at this thread. There's quite a few pictures of the DC-7 with brackets underneath this pedalboard I designed and made. I use two brackets that fit the DC-7 and in my case they bolt to the horizontal aluminium as that's what the aluminium is designed to be used for. In your case do you have something to screw the brackets to? Plywood? The screws can be quite small as there's little weight to theDC-7. The brackets don't connect to the DC-7, they merely hold it tightly in place. If you have specific ideas for mounting it, I can probably adapt my brackets. The brackets are dead simple to design and print. 30 mins for two of them. Let me know Rob

Can you fit the DC7 underneath? That's how I mount mine. I can send you some 3d printed brackets for free that you can use if that helps.

He's from Germany, beyond that can't say...

I got a cheap dedicated compressor pedal a few days ago, a Donner Compressor. Looked cheap and I thought I'll have a look at that and I'll put it on my pedalboard. Well, what a disaster that was. The pedal is very small, I hadn't quite appreciated how small. It's metal and well made BUT it almost falls between the rails on the pedalboard. Thats not the biggest problem though, nothing I have will actually stick to the bottom of the pedal. So none of the Velcro I have stays on. The rubber appears to be some sort of inert rubber that is very non-slip but at least three different velcro tapes just slide off it as if it had some sort of repulsion built into it. NASA needs to know as this could be cheap way to launch rockets. It turns out that its not just me and other people have the same issue. (https://www.jazzguitar.be/forum/guitar-amps-gizmos/83801-attaching-mini-pedals-pedalboard-velcro-aint-workin.html) So rather than peeling off the rubber from the bottom of the pedal, I designed printed a new base that simple screws in AND is quite large so it spans the pedal board rails. The old base is in the box, I used the same screws that came with it. I suspect that all of the Donner mini pedals have this issue, nice pedals but a little tricky to fix with Velcro. If anybody wants a base let me know and I'll print one out and send it for free. Rather annoying TBH. Rob

That was my first thought as well...

Is that what double basses can go for? Wow! I suppose same as top end violins... I'll not go down that rabbit hole. I actually blinked a few times reading £100K Anyway back to the thread, interesting thread to which I cannot contribute but still very interesting

I think it mounts using the feet as well. My guess is that it will be a M5 or M6 thread, as its German (is it?) it'll use a metric thread and I'll have a bolt that fits. I've just blown up my design model fiddling with it, blown up here means that things that were settled now produce lots of errors and I need to debug it. I may just take the sketches and start again. Fusion 360 is like a really bad development IDE for programming. The workflow wants you to use parametric design but make one little error and BANG, nothing works. However there is no issue making the pedalboard just about any height any length and just about any width (once I redo it). Lets see what @Woodinblack says. Rob

Si It could be mounted in any number of ways: 1. It could be an extra rail that sits behind the last aluminium extrusion, that makes it wider. 2. It could sit underneath the aluminium extrusion and so not take up any extra width. That means the board might be a little higher. 3. It could attach to the aluminium extrusion directly on either the back OR the bottom of the aluminium extrusion. Not sure what the impact is here TBH. Also not sure how to fix it. I've looked at the web page and can't see anything like measurements and fixings and useful stuff like that, If you are interested, lets work out what you actually want to do, then see what it might cost. Rob

Oh dear....