Everything has arrived, except my "Dynakit" trannies which should be here tomorrow. I've mounted all the sockets, jacks, bias pots, and cord. The board is almost fully populated! (my first one, Whew!) I now have some really newbie questions:
1.I'm ready to solder in the 9 pin sockets, Should I bend the pins ( in or out) to lock them in before soldering, like I did the resistors, or should I just try to keep them level?
2.The holes for the wire connections on the DIY board are really big and the wire is tiny? Do I try to fill the hole with solder, or solder the wires to one side of the holes? Seems like the solder would drip through.
3. Is there suppost to be a ground lug on the octal sockets, as the diagrams suggest? My sockets have no ground for the 10 ohm resistors. What do I do here?