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I just dropped my $5000 rig down the stairs.

Benjamin Strange

Benjamin Strange

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Dec 25, 2002
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#1
Or rather, it decided to go down the stairs by itself while I was not looking. I'm moving tomorrow, so I was getting all my stuff packed up in my new old truck, and the bass amp was the first item to get loaded up. I set my rack next to the bannister, and walked away from it to get help from my roommate down the hall. Not 10 seconds later I hear a crash. I run out just in time to see my amp dissappear down the first step - eek! It crashed it's way down a full flight of steps, destroying the walls, steps, and finally the 100 year old solid redwood door. This monster actually buckled a 3" piece of redwood in two places, all the way top to bottom. That door is going to cost me $2000 to replace, but as of tomorrow I don't even live here anymore. Damn.

I opened the rack, and not a single tube was broken - all 20 intact. Everything appears to be ok, but I won't know that for sure until I get to my new place and plug it all in. To be perfectly honest, I don't think anything in there is going to be broken at all; this rack is a monster.

The moral of this story? Don't ever leave a rack with wheels unattended next to a flight of stairs, and if you do, make sure it's a Mesa/Boogie shockmount. I'm sure that if I'd had a non-shockmounted rack I'd be out alot more than just a turn of the century door.
 
#6
Reminds me of the time the guitar players castered 4x12 and 100 watt tube head went careening off the pavement into a compost heap :scowl:

Amazingly, we knocked the compost out of the amp and it worked perfectly ...
 
#16
:eek: WOW... I would love too see pic's of what it did to that door and the rest of the house. I bet that was a sight for sore eyes for sure.

I have never heard of a shockmount rack case... where can you get them, what do they look like, and the average cost of them?

Good luck on the repairs... I hope your roommate had insurance! :hiding:

Peace,
 
#19
For the record, I wasn't smoking pot. Hell, I've never smoked anything in my life, so you can't blame it on the drugs. Just blame it on sheer stupidity for leaving it unnattended.

What floors me is that this thing somehow pulled a complete U-turn around the bannister before heading down the stairs; about 3 feet or so worth of movement. I think I'm going to blame the cat.
 

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