"MassivePrawn" wrote in
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On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:22:11 GMT, "Stephen Cowell"
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I must say, I *rarely* work on the exterior of a 50
year old guitar amp... mostly, I'd be inside it.

Figures you'd **** up a perfectly good antique by thinking that
working on it "fixes it". Yeah... you fixed it alright. It is worth
one tenth what it would have been.

Curious person, this MassivePrawn... not sure if
there's a brain working in there, but it *does*
write English, after a fashion... just fyi, if we don't
fix the antique, it stays broken. Same for you?

What is that yellow fuzz growing on the speaker nuts
of my '61 Gibson Falcon?

Likely cigarette tars. You're too ****ed in the head for it to be
cannabis tars.

Anyone else not getting sense out of this?

Tasted funny, anyway...

Must not have been Cadmium then, or you would be in a world of ****,
dip****.

Irony is lost on it...

I hear Hammond organs are plagued by 'cadmium fingers'...
you have to zap them when they short out key contacts.

Do you know ANYTHING about reed type contacts?

We'll see...

Anyone with any brains would switch them out for platinum points,
and a low voltage circuit that fires SCRs or the like in place of that
****. Guess what... no more "fingers" of any kind.

well, yes, as you point out, I *do* know a thing or three about
contacts, both leaf and reed. Have *you* ever had your hands
inside a Hammond Organ? Do you have any idea how many
contacts are made with each key closure? And why "**** up
a perfectly good antique " by ripping the heart and soul out of
it to replace each key contact set (14, is it) with SCRs... let's see,
14x61x2 (great and swell)... 1708 SCRs. Ludicrous.

Such knowledge comes from a few years of working on old style
pinball machines, and then on modern version where the voltages
presented to the contacts are low, and the currents are as well.
Pinball mean life between servicing PMLBS goes way up by a factor of
five or more.

You play pinball, and I'll play music. Appropriate, eh?
I'll let you play my old Gottleib...

I guess your funny tasting tongue just got its fingers zapped.

As I said, Irony Lost... Milton's other masterpiece.

Just so you know, I never said a goddamned thing about it having
been banned that far back.

See this? : / This is my Don't Give A **** face.

Stop adding cross posted groups, Usenet ****tard.

Haven't touched the Newsgroups: line, myself.
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Steve
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