[sdiy] Tip o' the day

[cheater cheater]

Or even solder onto them

another possibility is to use cut away leads and solder onto those

You know, in the beginning a breadboard was just that.. nails on a
breadboard that you'd twist compnent leads around :-)

D.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 23:25, David G. Dixon <dixon at interchange.ubc.ca> wrote:
> Hey Fellow Synth DIYers!
>
> Here's your handy-dandy tip of the day:
>
> Suck at design?  Tired of ruining PC boards from doing too much
> trial-and-error parts soldering and desoldering, trying to find just the
> right value which gives you that "sweet spot"?  Here's a handy tip:
>
> Sacrifice one or two machined-pin IC sockets by melting away the plastic
> substrate and recovering the little metal pins.  Then, simply solder these
> pins in where you think you might want to change the value of a component on
> a PCB.  Now you can simply plug in different resistors/capacitors until you
> find that magic combination.  When all is well, you can then desolder the
> pins (once) and replace them with the right components, or simply leave them
> in.
>
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