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Originally posted by Justin Thomas View PostI learned amp repair after I felt bilked by a tech...
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I looked at the ridiculously small price of resistors and coupling caps and the availability of parts over the internet and thought "All you need to do is to buy a multi meter, respect high voltage for safety, get a little better at soldering, and ask questions". Asked questions as they popped up, and got some really great answers, so that emboldened me to go further.
That's how I eventually (2 years later) found this community, the one were all the very smart electronics wizards hang out, and were there is very little BS !
In my mind I can do the basics, and will take at least a couple of decades to "Catch up" (if ever), and it's a very rewarding thing fixing and modifying old electronics ! There is a sense that as long as there a parts available, you can keep tube stuff alive forever.Last edited by HaroldBrooks; 05-23-2019, 04:45 AM." Things change, not always for the better. " - Leo_Gnardo
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Originally posted by Dave H View PostOr electric, I once opened the door and a neighbour was standing there holding a toaster. “I was told you work with electronics. Can you fix my toaster? It won't pop up” she said. I looked down the slots, there was about half a loaf of old breadcrumbs clogging it up so I opened the little flap on the bottom and shook them out. “There you go” She was delighted, said it worked a treat after that.
The $20 Hamilton Beach coffee maker is still running, after finding a suitable replacement power switch, and then finding the appropriate hi temp silicon rubber water tank hose that feeds the heater pipe. Five years now. Next, will, of course, be the thermal fuse in series with the heater. I got 8 years out of the last one, which finally melted down...then I tossed it, saving the pot of course. If ya can't cobble, what good are ya? Learned a lot from my Cal Tech Graduate dad, who had a work shop in the basement. I started with bicycles & an erector set.Logic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence
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Not knowing where you are exactly (no need to disclose), I had three guesses: Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, or Beacon...
A while back I Goofle-Earthed Liberty Street. Found my first house that I have conscious memories of. 36 years ago, it DID have a roof... Took it to Mom, she confirmed. Even saw the building I lost one of my first birthday presents to: a water&air propelled rocket. My cousin did first launch, went right on the neighbor's roof. He tried to get it but the fire escape was so shoddy he didn't feel safe...
Anyway, enough hijacking.
Justin"Wow it's red! That doesn't look like the standard Marshall red. It's more like hooker lipstick/clown nose/poodle pecker red." - Chuck H. -
"Of course that means playing **LOUD** , best but useless solution to modern sissy snowflake players." - J.M. Fahey -
"All I ever managed to do with that amp was... kill small rodents within a 50 yard radius of my practice building." - Tone Meister -
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Long story short, in 98 I got a Prosonic. Got a schem from Fender along with all the tech notes, cuz it had the switch pop. BAD. So I tried my gand at fixing it - just a resistor or two...
I was tired, messed up the job a bit. Called the tech guy. Told him exactly what I did & if he could just move it to the right tab on the jack for me. Sure, no problem, easy... Even left the service manual & schems in the back... 2 weeks later, a bill for $140 parts & labor.
Maybe it's sour grapes on my part, but I felt that was a little excessive, given he didn't have to troubleshoot anything, or move a PCB connection. Less work than an input jack.
So yeah, I felt bilked... Haven't been back since.
Justin"Wow it's red! That doesn't look like the standard Marshall red. It's more like hooker lipstick/clown nose/poodle pecker red." - Chuck H. -
"Of course that means playing **LOUD** , best but useless solution to modern sissy snowflake players." - J.M. Fahey -
"All I ever managed to do with that amp was... kill small rodents within a 50 yard radius of my practice building." - Tone Meister -
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Originally posted by Justin Thomas View Post.....Even saw the building I lost one of my first birthday presents to: a water&air propelled rocket. My cousin did first launch, went right on the neighbor's roof. JustinLogic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence
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Originally posted by Justin Thomas View PostNot knowing where you are exactly (no need to disclose), I had three guesses: Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, or Beacon...
OK back to the topic at hand wizzards!This isn't the future I signed up for.
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