Dip it in WD40 when it's full moon. then dance around it in on bare feet in ancle high, wet grass while you sing the german national anthem over and over again. Do it on one leg to make it go faster. Repeat this until it's dried up.
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My GK is sick :(
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Until what's dried up, the grass, the german anthem or the wd40? I've been dancing and singing for a couple of hours now.
interesting! So the contacts are plated? I didn't know that, I thought it was only true for gold plated jacks.
Learn something new every day!
IME With SS amps is when they go wonky, thank it for it’s service and let it go. Any time i’ve tried to get one repaired, the estimate was enough that just a little bit more would get me a new(er) amp.
This gives me an excuse to put some time into looking at amps because like so much other technology, the only constant is change so why not come out of the bunker from time to time and see why Beaut McNuke with the Dull Razers is so taken by the new Doomspeak Sizzler 860.
certain basses may be timeless but not so SS Amps.
At least that’s my personal take on the whole SS amp situation.
This gives me an excuse to put some time into looking at amps because like so much other technology, the only constant is change so why not come out of the bunker from time to time and see why Beaut McNuke with the Dull Razers is so taken by the new Doomspeak Sizzler 860.
certain basses may be timeless but not so SS Amps.
At least that’s my personal take on the whole SS amp situation.
It's useful for 100's of things. Just not as a lubricant, which is what most people try to use it for.
Glad you got it fixed. Very common problem on pretty much all amps, but the GKs seem to have more extreme issues from dirty jacks in my experience. I bought a 1001RB II that had no output at all and it was just dirty send and return jacks.
They must be using some cheaper jacks that are more prone to oxidation.
When burnishing contacts, usually a clean piece of business card stock is abrasive enough to clean up the contacts. A drop or two of deoxit on the card stock is good preventative maintenance.
Not so much cheaper jacks, but the plastic board mount jacks seem to react to dirt and oxidation more than the metal jacks do.
I'm not sure what bearing the plastic would have regarding oxidation; perhaps some long term off-gassing that affects the metal contacts.
Maybe because they are more enclosed than the metal jacks? I have actually blown out accumulated dust bunnies from that style jack.
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The 100% solution is too much of a good thing for most audio applications, the 5% is much better all around.
Absolutely, plated with Tin, Nickle, Gold or NiAg
It depends very much on the original quality level of the equipment and the skill level of the service shop/tech.
Using this example because I have factual confidence in the data, over 90% of all Genz Benz Shuttle and Streamliner that come into my shop get repaired for the $85 flat rate service charge. The only ones that cost more are the ones that somebody has attempted to repair themselves, those that got some lovin' from an unqualified hack-tech (remember my constant comments about seeking out QUALIFIED techs?) and the very occasional failure of a power amp module (I only replaced 3 or 4 modules all last year out of a couple hundred amps, so it really is rare when the design respects the IcePower technology).
This is cost is less than what many techs now charge just to give an estimate, and what's even more ironic is that most of the estimates I see when the amp is sent to me for repair are absolutely wrong. Many techs will just say "the module is bad, unrepairable", when in fact the problem has nothing to do with the module. IMO, that's criminal, totally uncool. Even with a new module, the cost of repair is still reasonable.
This service industry needs to get their act together, learn new technology, learn new troubleshooting techniques, learn how to use tools and common sense or there will be no service industry left.
No way. The reliability is based entirely on the design of the switching contacts and the quality of the materials/processing. I use the right angle Amphenol jacks by the tens of thousands and the failure rate is very, very low, but these jacks are also quite expensive by comparison... an example of getting what you pay for.
How about identifying the actual cause of the problem before spraying "magic cure-all spray" into a pot? Leave well enough alone and address that actual cause of the problem.
Thanks Agedhorse - it brings me back to my old days studying electronics .... these days I solder to various contacts and wire all the time, but it's been so long since I studied this stuff that I haven't thought about what the actual material is that I'm soldering to, let alone what the surface material is within various sockets/jacks.
Cheers, sir!
Cheers, sir!
Most likely a combination of slothful “techs” and my lack of confidence in their ability to deliver the repairs they claimed were needed.
I had an input go bad on that exact model. It cost about $30 to repair at my local fix it shop. Give that a look. Could be an easy fix.
Water Displacement??? I wonder how many formulas they had to try until they got THAT one right?? Probably never will know.....
This.
In too many fields these days, you have "techs/mechanics" or "parts replacers". Parts replacers are the ones who typically diagnose something without even looking at it (even when it's right in front of them), and then change a particular part, which doesn't solve the problem. Then they change another part, and on it goes...until a tech/mechanic properly diagnoses and fixes the problem (including the additional ones caused by the parts replacer).
Guess how I know this...
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