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#14,541
Well, I received my BQuad loaded body back from my friend / tech today and he was Unable to wire it. There is a broken balance pot, broken wires, a possibly damaged preamp board from a too hot soldering iron, and most of all, no schematic to work from.
So, I'm stuck with a non-working, seemingly 80% working BQuad. It looks like it's SO close to being able to work, but he assured me it needs more.
So, I contacted Derrick and he said there is probably a spare board, but I really need a schematic and a new blend pot. I'm pretty sure it's the blend. It's the knob highest up on the bass, where the blend is on a Cirrus.
If any of you have any good ideas or spare parts, lemme know. I have a new preamp for a GBass I can use as trade, too, and other Peavey stuff. Thanks, Mike B.
 
#14,542
Just got the Foundation S back from Jonathan Holland. Nice setup with a switch to DAddario Nickel RW XL230's. He adjusted the pole pieces in the Dimarzio style pickups. Nice even response. No rattles. Super punchy and very high passive output. I had to dial the gain back to 12 oclock. Fender with Lace Actives likes it at 3 oclock. Great playing, very agessive passive bass.
 
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#14,544
deff said:
Quick question... If the Peavey Truss rod socket tool the same as Gibson i.e. 5/16th's? I'm having some trouble getting at the nut on my Patriot...
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On my Foundation I had to remove the A tuner to get way in. That's when I was using a 5/16" socket with extension before I bought the truss rod tool, but maybe that same advice will work for you ?
 
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deff said:
Quick question... If the Peavey Truss rod socket tool the same as Gibson i.e. 5/16th's? I'm having some trouble getting at the nut on my Patriot...
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I had to remove a little of the truss cavity wall (the part where the fingerboard ends) to get my Gibson wrench in deep enough to reach. The removal was still fully covered by the truss cover, so no harm, no foul.
 
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mb94952 said:
Well, I received my BQuad loaded body back from my friend / tech today and he was Unable to wire it. There is a broken balance pot, broken wires, a possibly damaged preamp board from a too hot soldering iron, and most of all, no schematic to work from.
So, I'm stuck with a non-working, seemingly 80% working BQuad. It looks like it's SO close to being able to work, but he assured me it needs more.
So, I contacted Derrick and he said there is probably a spare board, but I really need a schematic and a new blend pot. I'm pretty sure it's the blend. It's the knob highest up on the bass, where the blend is on a Cirrus.
If any of you have any good ideas or spare parts, lemme know. I have a new preamp for a GBass I can use as trade, too, and other Peavey stuff. Thanks, Mike B.
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These were finicky... the bridge piezo wires are super super small and brittle.

You may be better to use a bart preamp or something.
 
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#14,548
MNAirHead said:
commonly yes.. the allparts one works the easiest.

use caution.
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Thank you. Well considering that there is a huge amount of relief in the neck and the micro-adjust screw was buried a half inch into the plate on the neck creating a ski jump there's little I can do to make it worse. I'm going to loosen the nut, take it out lube it and then clamp to create backbow and then slightly tighten and let the strings take up tension and work slowly.
 
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bigtone23 said:
I had to remove a little of the truss cavity wall (the part where the fingerboard ends) to get my Gibson wrench in deep enough to reach. The removal was still fully covered by the truss cover, so no harm, no foul.
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Thanks, I have had to do that myself. In fact there was a buildup in lacquer that needed to be taken down in order to come in straight at the nut. It looks really clean now, but there isn't a lot of room in the cavity.
 
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MNAirHead said:
These were finicky... the bridge piezo wires are super super small and brittle.

You may be better to use a bart preamp or something.
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Yeah, I was afraid of that. A funny thing is the bridge has the piezo wires attached to the bridge, and just need to be soldered to the board. The wires are pristine.
 
#14,554
deff said:
The one I purchased is apparently too thick. Is the Allparts one super thin? The one I have won't fit inside the box/housing for the truss rod nut. This is rather frustrating.
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Get a box spanner like this from a hardware store. About the thinnest wall tool you can get.
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#14,556
deff said:
That looks thin. I assume the holes are for a screwdriver to turn it? I think I just need to bring the neck to a hardware store. LoL.
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That's right,you just slip a rod of some kind in and turn. Course you could put a bend in it, the original Peavey tools weren't much different.

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Another option is make your own. Get a length of pipe and start tapping a 5/16th nut into it. Once it takes the shape 1/2" deep tease the nut out.
 
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#14,558
I bought the Allparts 3-piece set which has a deeper socket. It wasn’t a clean “L” shape as there was some problematic overhang on the back side (see pic) that was interfering with the entry angle. I ended up cutting the back off and then ground/sanded the exterior down to make it small enough to fit in the hole (the walls were a bit thick). It was a bit of a project, but works beautifully now.

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