Thunderbird Club

[Chucky Stiletti]

JFK, outside the restored TWA terminal.
That Connie is now a bar/lounge.
It’s waaaaaay cool.

thx for the invite….

 

[JJR58]

thx for the invite….

Oh. You def have to come here for that alone.
And, on top of the hotel there is this great huge hot tub.

 

[BklynKen]

Oh. You def have to come here for that alone.
And, on top of the hotel there is this great huge hot tub.

I love that building so much. We need to go out there and get a drink.

 

[JJR58]

The fish is pulling a Carmen Miranda.

Nope, she used fruit.

 

[JJR58]

I love that building so much. We need to go out there and get a drink.

Let’s do it!!!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Nope, she used fruit.

and wasn’t a fish….

 

[BklynKen]

and wasn’t a fish….

Reminds me of...

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

When you put a volt meter on the shield wire and center core wire it shows “open circuit”

If it were a working pickup it would show 9.72k or something along those lines.

check your setting/probes on the VOM…

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Reminds me of...

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..love our ability to quickly digress….was it supposed to be cold and fried?…..

 

[Ringhammer]

check your setting/probes on the VOM…

I know the meter/leads are all good, and I use a meter every day in the work I do. Also, when I read the bridge pickup, it’s showing 9.73k. When I do the same thing with the neck pickup it is “OL”. I know the neck pickup is bad, I was just inquiring if it’s worth keeping and/or if it’s repairable.

 

[JJR58]

Reminds me of...

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..love our ability to quickly digress….was it supposed to be cold and fried?…..

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I know the meter/leads are all good, and I use a meter every day in the work I do. Also, when I read the bridge pickup, it’s showing 9.73k. When I do the same thing with the neck pickup it is “OL”. I know the neck pickup is bad, I was just inquiring if it’s worth keeping and/or if it’s repairable.

 

[GonePlaid]

was surprised to see Puerto Ricans use chili when they never used to…a local explained PR got very popular with Mexican tourism recently……
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Only a small language barrier.

 

[Stealth57]

Now I remember why I fell in love with Tbirds. The Oatmeal Stout of sound. Epi IV with La Bella black tapes. Haven’t played it in months

 

[Engle]

and that brings up an excellent (controversial) point, same happened to me with an Ampeg PF-500 driving a fridge at a local rehearsal spot recently…..keep in mind, (fmi) nothing at a 60$/hr rehearsal room is gonna sound decent unless brand new or recently serviced, that stuff takes a serious beating……more importantly, although not advertised, class D stuff’s lifetime is more directly affected by semiconductor aging, that although real across all semiconductors plays more of a role in Class D gear MTBF (mean time between failures) and EOL (end of life) …..iow, to get that much performance from ever shrinking packages one must push semiconductors to a point where a smaller than previously considered tolerance drift over time will result in shorter product lifetime….since warranty periods are usually a year long, this guarantees proper operation for at least that period of time….not unlike older technology where caps and tubes have to be replaced after a period of time, miniaturization has made it to where you just replace the whole Class D head….(think iPhones)….so, moral of the story, don’t buy used Class D stuff…… all that said….it could have been a blocked fan, seen that happen as well……

I bought my MB200 and D800+ used. So far so good!
PF350s seem to not be able to tolerate temperature/humidity swings.

 

[Engle]

I know the meter/leads are all good, and I use a meter every day in the work I do. Also, when I read the bridge pickup, it’s showing 9.73k. When I do the same thing with the neck pickup it is “OL”. I know the neck pickup is bad, I was just inquiring if it’s worth keeping and/or if it’s repairable.

Is it potted? I have successfully resoldered leads to windings on a pickup in my MIJ Ric.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I’m pretty bummed it didn’t work out either. I was able to get a halfway decent sound out of it by running four beam clamps across the front of the enclosure to brace the soundboard. I think if it had been working correctly it would have easily met my needs and could have probably spent time fixing it but I wasn’t looking for another project.

I’d still consider an Eden rig but wasn’t that impressed with the design attributes of this particular combo.

- Heavy as hell (IIRC about 120#)
- Tilt back casters were nice (a must for something this size) but they rattled horribly on my stone floor when playing through the amp. Had to place the combo on a blanket to quiet it down, just not high quality casters.
- The inside of the cab is not serviceable. No way to remove the rear panel to get inside the cab, it’s all glued and covered in rat fur. There was no easy way to repair the sound board.
- The side handles are mounted high, so dead lifting up stairs or into the back of a car is almost impossible. Aguilar does it right on their 412.
- The top handle rests inside a recessed metal plate which just contacts the top of the built in Eden amp housing causing even more buzzing and rattling at volume.
- The combo is very top heavy and incredibly front heavy. So when moving it around if you tilt it even slightly forward (like I did to get the blanket under it) the whole combo (quickly without much warning) wants to dive face first to the floor. I had to catch it on two different occasions.

Other than that it looked nice.

Face dive (1) makes it the perfect pairing with a neck diving bass and (2) may be why the sound board is messed up.

 

[kyral210]

Now I remember why I fell in love with Tbirds. The Oatmeal Stout of sound. Epi IV with La Bella black tapes. Haven’t played it in months

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From this angel your pickups look too high. I go 6/64 maximum with the last fret depressed

 

[Stealth57]

From this angel your pickups look too high. I go 6/64 maximum with the last fret depressed

Optical illusion. They are high but tapes don’t generate the same output as rounds or flats. They don’t touch the pickups and there isn’t any chorus.

 

[Ringhammer]

Is it potted? I have successfully resoldered leads to windings on a pickup in my MIJ Ric.

yep, it’s a big potted piece of plastic, epoxy, magnets and wires…