Stupid stupid stupid.
So last night I'm wiring and soldering the Safety Ground bus connections, part 1 & 2 on my Stereomour. Really moving along at a nice pace and could possibly even finish the amp in the new day or so.
I'm on the last wire, and I don't know if I cut it short, or if I simply wound a bit too much wire around the binding post end, but my wire was just a little too short to safely make it all the way through the hole on the solder lug. I couldn't truly attach the wire to the lug at all.
So, did I cut a new slightly longer wire and use a replacement that was clearly long enough? nooooo. I decided I could shove that short wire into the solder lug wire configuration deep enough to where the solder would just magically flow around that unsecured wire like a warm flowing blanket of liquid solder and all would be fine. In reality, did that work? noooooo.
So, first... failed attempt to use desoldering braid ...
and second... failed attempt to get the new desoldering iron I purchased today from radio shack to successfully remove that solder,
and third... failed attempt to simply remove the machine screw and nut and just replace the top soldering lug with a new one...( the repeated heat from all that desoldering must have heated up that screw/nut too much to allow it to come off, it just got stripped at some point)
So, I had to resort to Dremel and cut the damn screw off and now I'll need to go find some new solder lugs somewhere so I can get going again. Sigh.
Time, money, frustration, and an entire wasted Sunday that I could have possibly even finished the entire amp.......all of that down the drain because I didn't want to take the time to cut a new piece of wire (for a few pennies and a few seconds).
I guess I'll have to be content with the knowledge that I'll never make that mistake again.
Esoteric DV-50, Technics SL1200-M3D, B&K Phono 10 Preamp, Sumiko Blue Point Special Evo III, Bottlehead Stereomour, Orca's