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Default Mystery/dangerous ? material in an amp?

Ron(UK) wrote in message
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N Cook wrote:
The owner requested replacement of a couple of pots and unusually

requested
the amp be blown out. Being unusual request I enquired what is likely to

be
in there requiring blowing out but he seemed a bit cagey.
Inside there are perhaps tens of thousands of precisely 2mm long black
fibres, about human hair thickness. I first thought chopped strand
carbon-fibre but these are less tham 30 Megohm resistance , isn't carbon
fibre conductive?


Could they actually be human hairs? is the owner a trendy short beard
type or a skin head ?

It could be shedded carpet covering off a new speaker cabinet, I`ve seen
it come off bass cabs a bit like that.

Ron(UK)

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Simple now you say it
,its the blue flock covering of the cab, in isolation the fibres look jet
black, pulling some off with pliers and they're all 2 mm long.