I Started Offboard Wiring Too Soon

I got excited and started the offboard wiring too soon. I should've stuck with the circuit board and seen it all the way through. I am full of regret.

I wasn't originally planning on testing the thing before enclosing it all up, which was extremely dumb. That planned has currently changed.

After my last post, I took off the socket spider because it is dumb.

Later, hater.

Blurry picture of something.

Added a bunch of extension wires

Bought a new socket. Big moves.

Here's what I had in the enclosure at this point.

I needed to take the pots out of the enclosure so I could connect them to the board.

Tone wire has lugs 2&3 going to ground, so I bent them with pliers and used one wire.

Gain pot has lugs 2&3 going to the same spot on the board, so I did the same.

The volume pot goes to 3 distinct locations (1&2 to different spots on the board, 3 to the 3PDT switch). I wrote down which wire was what so I wouldn't get confused later.

My next time in the lab, two wires broke off. One was the output wire on the switch, the other was one of the IC extension wires. I put that wire right back, but I had a lot of trouble fixing this wire on the switch.

It took forever to get the soldered piece of wire off of the lug.

I suck at soldering so the lug actually fell off of the switch, which I didn't know could even happen.

I got really frustrated after this, so I took a couple of days off.