heyho, i am currently putting all the bits in place and i was wondering if the voltage regulator needs to be bolted down to the chassis via the metal square bit the sticks out of it.

Also, is the bus bar soldered to the chassis directly or should i use a wire and send it to a seperate lug?

thanks in advance!

ah ok, cheers!

I'm guessing that the thinner wire is for early in the signal chain and the fatter is for the likes of the shorts across the output jack sockets. The long brass wire is for the busbar above the pots.

You will need the longer screws for the 5 small boards since they, with their insulating backing board are too fat for a short screw to fit. I used the short screws everywhere they would fit!

I used that long straight piece for the buss bar.
I used the next thinner piece for the links from the pots to the buss bar.
I used the skinny ones that look like resistor leads for the shorts on the switches.

that is genious!

Those connections are Shielded Cables.
They are connected to ground on one side as close as possible to the inner core.
On the other side leave the shield in tack as far as possible and seal with shrinktube
so just a little core sticks out to solder in place.

On the pot side, keep everything as short as possible and wire them as shown.
On the otherside, use shrincktube and keep everything as short as possible.

You don't want to connect both sides of the shield to ground (groundloop hum)
If you don't use shielded cable or leave the leads to long, then you'll pickup noise & hum.

Fred, you need to ground the shielding at the pot end, but not the other. Here's what I did.

Trim about 20mm of the outer sheath away. Un-weave(?) the shielding, move it all round to one side and twist it tight. Tin it and trim it back to about 10mm long.

Prepare a piece of black wire with 10mm of exposed wire, tinned.

Lay both wires on a piece of wood with the exposed wires next to one another and solder them together. Slip a piece of heat shrink tube over the thin wire and push it over the solder joint. Shrink it.

Fold the wire back, slip a larger piece of heat shrink over the lot leaving about 10mm of the inner wire exposed, shrink it. You can see this in the photos. Now you can strip the inner core and solder it to the pot tag and then do the same with the earth wire.

At the other end, trim about 20mm of outer sheath and the shielding leaving only the inner core. Cover the end of the outer sheath with some more heat shrink so the shielding is well covered.

Cheers

Hywel Harris