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Post subject: Re: tubes are a pain!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2016 3:44 am
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mh2000 wrote:
My gf also has a nice American Standard Strat with all the switches messed up and rendering it more or less unplayable...


Seems like you have a pretty great gf...
My wife just has a spanish guitar.

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Post subject: Re: tubes are a pain!!!
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2016 5:29 pm
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mh2000 wrote:
My gf also has a nice American Standard Strat with all the switches messed up and rendering it more or less unplayable...


Seems like you have a pretty great gf...
My wife just has a spanish guitar.


Ha! Yeah, I probably wouldn't even be playing guitar had she not bought me my first one! :)

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Post subject: Re: tubes are a pain!!!
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2016 6:29 pm
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mh2000 wrote:
Just sayin', my girlfriend thinks her Fender XD isn't sounding quite right and looking for somewhere to test the tubes is turning into a huge nightmare! Either a traveling tech has to take her amp for a couple weeks to check it out or I take the tubes to the only (antique) tube tester in the city which the old school electronics store manager says, "Only works when it wants to!" Geez... when I was a little kid, they used to be in every drug store! Anyway, just gloating for one more reason I love my Mustang III v2.0! :)

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Post subject: Re: tubes are a pain!!!
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2016 11:12 pm
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mh2000 wrote:
People online suggest just replacing them as well, but a genuine Gibson toggle switch is $25 and has to be soldered, so that was more of a pain than testing tubes. Anyway, her guitar was only a year old so I was surprised the switch went wanky so soon. Was pretty easy to just clean off the switch parts with alcohol... I'm guessing when the pots get crudded up it can be more of a pain because I know they usually fail partially or intermittently. My gf also has a nice American Standard Strat with all the switches messed up and rendering it more or less unplayable...


In all of this, I have to wonder why your gf's guitar pots are failing at such a rate. Are they stored in high humidity, or high dust areas? Near the ocean?

There's got to be something causing this. Parts don't just fail with such regularity.

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Post subject: Re: tubes are a pain!!!
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 9:34 am
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mh2000 wrote:
People online suggest just replacing them as well, but a genuine Gibson toggle switch is $25 and has to be soldered, so that was more of a pain than testing tubes. Anyway, her guitar was only a year old so I was surprised the switch went wanky so soon. Was pretty easy to just clean off the switch parts with alcohol... I'm guessing when the pots get crudded up it can be more of a pain because I know they usually fail partially or intermittently. My gf also has a nice American Standard Strat with all the switches messed up and rendering it more or less unplayable...


In all of this, I have to wonder why your gf's guitar pots are failing at such a rate. Are they stored in high humidity, or high dust areas? Near the ocean?

There's got to be something causing this. Parts don't just fail with such regularity.


Her strat was in storage for at least 10 years, but the LP is only around a year old and played almost daily. That was the PU switch and it seemed to have a lubrication film that I cleaned off. I don't know why it should have gotten scratchy. We live in AZ and it's really dry and static-y here. no one I know humidifies their electric guitars here... think it's just part of life in the desert.

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