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Help! Dumb problem with Hohner Jack Bass

Help! The jack socket on my Hohner Jack Bass Custom failed. I removed it to dick around with it and see if there was anything I could do to make it work; I couldn’t.
I got a replacement but that was months later and (dummy that I am) didn’t make a drawing of how the socket was wired and I now don’t know what wires to solder where.

I have three things to solder to the three lugs ion the socket ; a grey shielded wire from the mini toggle switch plus a blue wire and a black wire coming from the battery/active electronics unit.I'm afraid to just experiment and solder it wrong incase I fry something in the active electronics.

Could any kind fellow Jack Bass owners here be able to open up the back of their bass and tell me what goes where?

Any help would be most appreciated.

Mike

By the way, hi. This is my first post here.
 
Bump.
Okay, solved it myself. If anyone else ever has the same dumb problem with the socket on a Hohner Jack Bass (...I noticed and unanswered thread here from donkeys years back) ...it goes like this:-

The white lead of the shielded wire goes to the smallest solder lug.
The blue wire and the black wire both get soldered to the medium solder lug.
The shield from the grey wire goes to the tallest solder lug.

That is all.
Happy Easter to our orthodox Christian friends, by the way.