[Bill Epstein]

No matter how I fooled with the DC jack legs I couldn't get it to stay put while I attached the nut.

Set it in the hole, tightened the nut, jack comes loose.

Set it in the hole with the legs spread out, tightened the nut, jack came loose.

Clipped a hemostat to one leg from underneath, tightened the nut, %#@&! jack came out.

Finally, I laid a straight edge across the switches and gauged the height of the jack from that and soldered it in place. aa

[analog97]

Bill,

I just built a Piccolo.  I soldered the DC jack in place first, thinking this was the correct thing to do.  Then, I had no problems with it.  I did not re-read the directions, but maybe you misinterpreted?  Or, maybe I just got LUCKY!!

[Bill Epstein]

Yeah, there's a whole riff about using the jack to set the height of every other protuberance.

[hagtech]

I recently discovered that the rotary switches from DigiKey are about 1/30 of an inch taller than the ones I buy from Mouser.  Hence, there is a slight misfit on the dc power jack.  I'm going to include a washer on future half-kits to make installation easier.  This fits nicer and gives you a little more terminal length to solder onto the circuit board. 

jh