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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 31, 2013 4:58:26 GMT -5
Please delete period after closing parenthesis.
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 30, 2013 20:31:41 GMT -5
Hey Newey, I have one of those 9 pin variants intended (supposedly) for true bypass wiring, and it did not follow the logic you suggest. I had to resort to ringing it out. The advice to take some of that money that you're going to be buried with and purchase a VOM is germane. A multimeter is for life, not just for ringing out a switch, especially so with regard to wiring up pick up circuits. A "battery" and lamp is the ebeneezer approach, but if falling back upon an LED, do include in the budget for a dropper resistor to limit the current. A transistor is the fastest fuse on three legs, and what is a transistor if not back to back diodes? de g4vrr.
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 30, 2013 13:52:59 GMT -5
Echo those sentiments IJWS... However, trying to avoid comparison with regimes, the like of which nazi-ism (small "n"!) is a perfect example, the reason why minorities such as these worm their way into positions of power is because the silent majority sit back and say nothing, often in disbelief that anything so abhorrent is transpiring before their collective eyes. I'm confident that older Germans would concur. I live in London (well, 15 miles to the west actually) and we have probably the largest cross section of different nationalities in the world. We also have our fair share of right-wing little Englanders, so please don't suggest that I am naive. Somehow it all seems to work and three cheers for that. It follows that I cannot stand on the sidelines and allow the contributor to "get away" with such errant generalisations about the Greeks, because that is how nazi-ism rose to prominence. It is imperative that such sentiments for a whole nation are kept distinct from ruminations about the sad situation wherein Cypriots find themselves. The Greeks have been really suffering for a long while now, and it must be insulting to have such abject nonsense thrown at them? In my opinion,by and large, it's language that defines nationality, not misguided superiority complexes. Go figure. I sincerely hope that the the contributor is not typical of the whole (half?) Cypriot population. When I went to Cyprus for a holiday about 15 years back, the pension owner (a converted staging post a few miles north of Paphos) took me to task big time for making my own coffee in my room. I didn't take issue, but I did order coffee at 03-00 hours for a couple of nights and then heard no more from him! Did I come away with the impression that all Cypriots were like that? Of course I didn't. People are people the world over, and most are decent human beings. At the hospital where best beloved works, the locum South African surgeons still seem to arrive with undesirable racial opinions, but they usually go back with "updated" points of view! I should feel a little more sympathetic with the stated plight if focus could be directed upon solutions instead of implied inverted racism towards millions of suffering individuals. What really concerns me here is that the actions of the Cypriot authorities do not cause a snowball of lack of faith in banks. It could go global...... Perhaps it would be more constructive to discuss the cancer that is the banking sector,we could do that easily without resorting to such base animal instincts like the cheap fascist statements that have already been aired? Or perhaps we could just return to discussing guitar wiring......
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 29, 2013 13:20:32 GMT -5
My 8086 is up in my loft / attic. It worked about 15 years ago when it was given to me by a retired Kodak employee. You've given me an idea...dir/p/w!
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 26, 2013 5:29:07 GMT -5
If you could get the slot "just right", perhaps it would be possible to ground the last tag and make the fifth position as a non-latching kill switch?
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 20, 2013 16:38:24 GMT -5
I made a Danny Gatton signature decal for a DG "tribute" Tele. I used the aforementioned inkjet waterslide paper, but I got boss man at work to print it on his laser jet and this worked out fine. I wanted the laser because you only have to sneeze on an inkjet for it to run. That's good advice regarding the razor blade. I wish I'd known that when I did mine. A reasonable alternative is to cut around the decal in such a manner that tends to burr the edge of the decal down instead of up. This can tend to be counter-intuitive and the direction depends upon whether you use left or right handed scissors. Another point, printers don't print white, so a white background on your master gives a transparent result. This is not immediately obvious and was part of my learning curve as I struggled with layers trying to lose the white background. As ever, eBay is your friend for the transfer material. It does have a shelf life, but I well exceeded that with no probs. One more thing, convincing gold and silver metallics are problematic with decals......
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 19, 2013 16:52:40 GMT -5
I seem to recall that you have to lift the pick up cover's ground lead and move it to another location if you are doing the Tele four way switch mod. This mod gives the series option. I reckon that's your problem here. It shouldn't take long to google the 4-way Tele mod to confirm?
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Post by b4nj0 on Sept 20, 2009 17:52:36 GMT -5
A plug for the Akai Headrush E2. You get a looper as well for the cash. Built like a tank! Oh, and the instructions are incorrect, even the downloaded ones! Not a recommendation as such, but should be on your audition list. I like mine.
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Post by b4nj0 on Sept 20, 2009 17:19:17 GMT -5
I've had a Tak since 1980. A (basically) budget model F360s with a solid spruce top, laminated back and sides. I was taken by a review of a sister model (F312s?)which I now recognise as a parlor (sic) guitar. I loved it for about 25 years until I got a hand made, all solid timber Yamaha LS400vt. There was no contest.
In no way am I going to ever denigrate my beloved Tak- it was (I believe) one of the so-called "lawsuit" models- but it only ever comes out of its case for old-times' sake these days. I guess that's more about having too many instruments really!
Bottom line- a great guitar.
Respect to you Mass. K. Hirade. (RIP)
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 13, 2009 18:21:23 GMT -5
HyperOs. I would not run a system without HyperOs. Micro$oft are listed as a customer, they must sure be wondering how these guys do it! Note that it does not work by hiding operating systems. the latest version even lets you run multiple operating systems from within one partition!! Clone a live running system anyone? www.hyperossystems.co.uk/?affid=19129This thread is about hardware recommendations so while you are there, read up on the "Hyperdrive" (Run totally from physical ram- Xp starts up in seconds, office documents open almost instantly, I so wish that I could afford one but....if I set out to build a new box, I'd economise on bells and whistles CPUs etc and invest in the Hyperdrive. Hardware will take years to catch up with this level of performance. b4nj0.
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 13, 2009 17:25:03 GMT -5
Quote (Sumgai)
"b4nj0,
I think you just took the cake! The previous record of 18 months between posts on a thread was just trounced by your nearly 21 months!"
Ladies and Gentlemen- a new record? 33 months??
b4nj0 ;<D
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Post by b4nj0 on Sept 13, 2008 12:10:31 GMT -5
I've struggled with this shorted pickup problem as well. May I quote you Sumgai? "The wiring/switch positions may be rearranged to suit the player's taste." I'd like to suggest that if one was to swap the pickups around on the switch (watch the polarities!) then the bridge pickup would be shunted instead and then only when the neck pickup was selected in isolation. Now, how many of us would resent a little "tone sucking" on the neck pup on a tele compared with loss of top end on the bridge pup? The vanilla Tele neck pickup with its tin hat was never exactly a stellar performer at the best of times! All that remains to be done is to reverse the orientation of the tele 4 way switch and now you have full treble on the bridge pup and (almost) the same switch positions as before. It crosses my mind that a simple push / pull pot mounted switch would avoid this question altogether and would be more intuitive in normal use. Incidentally, Joe Barden advised me not to bother with a 4-way when I wired my JBs and I believe that he was correct. (One unused Fender 4-way in the parts drawer!)
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Post by b4nj0 on Dec 21, 2007 20:00:30 GMT -5
Well, the Mike Richardson mod worked second time around for me ( I wired both pots incorrectly the first time around because I couldn't figure out which way up the pots were intended to be from the sketch) I triple checked the circuit on paper. I cut away the screening foil around the tone pots in case there were any ground loops but I'm not sure that this was neccesary or even advisable, it just seemed to me that one pot is across a pickup whilst the other dumps to deck in the usual way and I wanted to avoid both the pot chassis being common at all times. I left the foil under the volume pot otherwise it would not have acted as a screen. I used a Yamaha push-push tone pot. These are superb but I have wrecked two of them by forgetting to disengage the switch before removing the knob-d'oh...I have had no issues with the superswitch (having used one on a Tele 5-W mod as well) but the wiper does seem as though it is almost shorting out the contacts. Maybe others have been unlucky with poor production tolerances. There remains a possibility that the contacts are shorting onto the inside of the cavity and if screening is employed inside the wiring rout then there is another opportunity for a non functional circuit. The same goes for the terminals on the piggy-back switch on the tone pot. Mike's original circuit diagram is 100% but modders are going to have to take plenty of time out to ensure that they fully understand his thought train before even switching on the soldering iron at all. I would like to record my thanks to Mike for this mod. I scratched around for weeks with a pencil and paper trying to achieve ten different tones from the superswitch and failed to increase on 9. Mike's thinking in the way that unselected switch tags are used as junctions, is something that I would never have come up with, much less arrived at a working circuit. The icing on this particular cake is the way that the Yamaha push-push switch acts as a series><parallel in the three middle positions-so ergonomic and plain elegant. If anyone still doubts this circuit, consider the Stateside seller who is selling pre-wired assemblies of this circuit with impunity---leech! Cheers Mike, I'm gonna wire another Strat this way now.
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