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*£108 on ebay.. you saucy bitch*

Ha yeah that was a stroke of luck. That said, the money's all gone again as the two Harmonic Energizers (and my real battered Green Russian Muff) paid for a couple nights in a Bruges hotel. Very nice, but now I'm back I feel just as knackered. Only with a fridge full of Belgian beer.

Back on the amp. I'm still nowhere near confident enough to build amps, or even tinker. My Dad discharged the caps in my Musicmaster Bass against the chassis with a screwdriver and a loud crack that even startled him. I don't fancy any of that action.

I was dead scared to work on my bassman, my dad insisted that an aligator clamp on pin 1 of the 1st preamp tube to the chasis was good enough. Scaarrreeey

Haze wrote:I was dead scared to work on my bassman, my dad insisted that an aligator clamp on pin 1 of the 1st preamp tube to the chasis was good enough. Scaarrreeey

Having looked inside my amp the filter cap stands tall with the pins seemingly inaccessible without taking the pcb out the chassis and getting to it from underneath (fuck that! bad design I'm thinking). I'd be happy to do that grouding thing but I'd still want to read the voltage stored in the cap before doing anything. Catch 22 I suppose.

Only reason I'd be in there now would be to rebias (no need to discharge), or fit a new output transformer or something which I'm mulling over but wouldn't do without help.