fx builders and bodgers. Uk side

rps-10 · Post by **rps-10** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 12:59 pm

Bitsbox are now selling pedal kits!
more being added by the looks: http://www.bitsbox.co.uk/pa/FXKitIndex.html

Might have a go at making one of them soon.

Gabriel · Post by **Gabriel** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 2:50 pm

If it came with a pre-drilled enclosure I'd totally be up for one of these, except it doesn't and I'm crap at electronics so it's probably for the better that I don't attempt one of these. It's cool that they're doing these though.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 2:57 pm

So they basically come with everything bar wire and the enclosure? Where's the cheapest place in the UK to buy enclosures?

rps-10 · Post by **rps-10** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 3:37 pm

Bitsbox themselves are pretty cheap and do the nicer cases (EDL iirc? Hammond copies) not the really nasty cheaper ones with ribs inside that seem to be made of melted down toy cars.

h8mtv · Post by **h8mtv** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 3:58 pm

So they print a vero layout, hand you a chunk of the shit and a bag of parts. Brilliant.

Post by **Mike** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 4:19 pm

They have taken these layouts from tagboardeffects - Possibly without permission

I like bitsbox but someone should check Mark from the site is ok with this

h8mtv · Post by **h8mtv** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 4:24 pm

My thoughts exactly.

rps-10 · Post by **rps-10** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 5:13 pm

If you read the tagboardeffects site it says the owner of that site approached Bitsbox as prefered supplier...

http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.co.uk/2 ... -kits.html

All above board, move along, no need for anyone to get their knickers in a twist.

I just thought it was nice to have a UK side supplier of "kits" rather than buying in from the US or Germany, for those that don't want the job of buying component parts themselves.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:43 pm

All good and that, but a bit iffy of them to have a Timmy kit when it's a small supplier building a pedal at (comparatively) close to cost.

h8mtv · Post by **h8mtv** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 10:09 pm

I hope at least cut all the traces for the customers. I would very much suggest to a first time builder that a fabbed pcb is the way to go.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 10:24 pm

Hmmm, they also still sell leaded solder. What's the story there? I thought it was banned, that solder had to be ROHS compliant?

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 10:49 pm

Also, tagboardeffects, the site that the layouts come from, have a nice word to say about Mike:

shortscalemike really inspired me when he was coming up with layouts for popular effects

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 11:05 pm

h8mtv wrote:I hope at least cut all the traces for the customers. I would very much suggest to a first time builder that a fabbed pcb is the way to go.

A hundred times this. Vero is not the way to go for pedalnoobs.

Post by **Mike** » Mon Feb 18, 2013 8:34 am

BacchusPaul wrote:Hmmm, they also still sell leaded solder. What's the story there? I thought it was banned, that solder had to be ROHS compliant?

I think you can still sell and use it, but you can't claim your products are RoHS compliant if you use that solder.

The guys at the tagboardeffects place are great, I'm glad this is all good with them.

Vero is a little tricky for the hobbyist but once you have used it you have a world opened to you that you just don't have if you build a by numbers PCB kit.