Recent content by PaulD

The 5v6 is a beam pentode, identical to a 6v6 except for the heater voltage which as DrewB says is 5v (4.7v to be precise). The only way to use them in place of a 6v6 would be to modify the heater supply in the amp to supply them with the correct voltage, running them at 6.3v would almost...

I stand corrected, I didn't realise that.

Yes a 2021 will have a circuit board with plug in pickups. Thinking about it though if you did swap the pickup connectors around you would also need to rotate the switch as previously suggested for everything to work correctly. I guess it depends on how much you want to do yourself or whether...

Assuming it is a modern guitar with a circuit board remove the control cavity cover and swap the neck and bridge pickup connections over (they just plug into the circuit board)

It needs to have lots of snake oil flux in it too!

I bought my first "proper" guitar in 1976, it was a new Fender Stratocaster and if I remember correctly it cost £225. Gibsons were more expensive, I seem to remember seeing Les Pauls in the shops at the time which were around the £350 mark. (And to add a bit of context my weekly wage at the time...

There is nothing whatsoever to debate about. From a technical point of view it is undoubtedly safer if the strings are not grounded, if they aren't connected to anything then there are no circumstances under which they can become live and shock you if you touch something that is grounded. In...

Strange, I assume the figures you are quoting are kilo ohms not ohms? (other than the low end values which should be ohms). When you measure the pot resistance in circuit you are measuring it in parallel with the pick-up so when the pot is turned up to 10 you will get a reading slightly lower...

Thread is over 6 years old and the OP hasn't been on the forum for almost 5 years! :rolleyes:

I can't see any way the pick-up could cause the problem you describe. If the pot is measuring close to zero between the centre lug and ground lug out of circuit then it should read the same in circuit. Can you confirm exactly where you are putting the meter probes to take the readings, on to the...

It is possible that excessive heat can damage a pot but not very common, they can usually withstand a surprising amount of heat without damage. When checking with a multimeter (between the centre lug and ground lug) most pots will read a few ohms, typically less than 5 ohms, but it probably...

The most likely cause would be the solder joint where the outer lug of the volume pot is grounded to the pot case, I have seen a few of these where the solder joint may look OK but in actual fact it's not making a good connection. I would check and re-flow that joint as the first step.

Those caps are 0.047uF! Whoever put those in clearly had no concept of what they were doing, 0.00047uF would be more like it. A treble bleed capacitor acts a high pass filter and allows some of the higher frequencies to bypass the volume control as it is turned down, a cap of that value will...

If you open the pot case and replace the innards you still need to unsolder and resolder the wires, the terminals are attached to the mica board that has the pot track on. The only thing you would be "preserving" is the blob of solder on the back of the pot case. It's a blob of solder, not some...

A capacitor on the volume pot will not change the taper of the pot (a resistor can dependant on the value of the resistor and how it is wired). The capacitor is likely a treble bleed mod which is intended to prevent the treble roll-off that occurs when a volume pot is turned down. Not quite...