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Food and Drink / Re: Dave'sCookinShow!!
Last post by RAGER - Today at 09:04:42 AMThat amazes me that the smoker is just sitting there out in the open. I'd give that until nightfall around here and it'd be gonzo.
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Food and Drink / Re: Dave'sCookinShow!!
Last post by Pissy - May 24, 2024, 08:48:46 PMQuote from: mortlock on May 24, 2024, 07:55:44 PMIt's not the airlines, it's TSA at security.Quote from: Pissy on May 24, 2024, 07:39:09 PMThe DCS finance department will need to approve your ticket funds to fly standby in the bathroom on Southwest.dcs will not fly anyone anywhere if the airlines are not looking at boarding passes. no exceptions.
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Food and Drink / Re: Dave'sCookinShow!!
Last post by mortlock - May 24, 2024, 08:04:26 PMmore zombie action
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Food and Drink / Re: Dave'sCookinShow!!
Last post by mortlock - May 24, 2024, 07:55:44 PMQuote from: Pissy on May 24, 2024, 07:39:09 PMThe DCS finance department will need to approve your ticket funds to fly standby in the bathroom on Southwest.dcs will not fly anyone anywhere if the airlines are not looking at boarding passes. no exceptions.
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Food and Drink / Re: Dave'sCookinShow!!
Last post by Pissy - May 24, 2024, 07:39:09 PMThe DCS finance department will need to approve your ticket funds to fly standby in the bathroom on Southwest.
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Food and Drink / Re: Dave'sCookinShow!!
Last post by RAGER - May 24, 2024, 07:02:35 PMYeah! Fly me out. We'll collab on diktalk.
#8
Food and Drink / Re: Dave'sCookinShow!!
Last post by Muffin Man - May 24, 2024, 06:23:32 PMQuote from: mortlock on May 23, 2024, 09:12:11 PMdamn rager, i need to hire you as a consultant to dcs
#9
Jam Room / Re: What are YOU up to, DIY/pr...
Last post by Pissy - May 24, 2024, 10:10:59 AMI just replaced the pots in my newly beloved Transparent red Washburn HB35.
I had an issue with a partially failing pot and decided to put better ones in all around. Same values as before (500k with .047uf caps on the tone pots) BUT the old were mini pots, and the new are standard sized. I didn't know this going in. I also realized that the threaded shaft on the new pots was larger (SAE vs metric) than what came out, so I was half expecting to have to drill the holes out. New ones fit, so it wasn't an issue, but they are snug.
Kind of a pain. Of course with a 335 style, there's no access cavity so you have to work through the f-holes. There's a hack for that, using dental floss (i used butchers twine) and a coat hanger to feed through the individual holes and tie them on to the posts for each pot. That's all well and good, but don't forget to thread the washers on BEFORE you pull the string through the hole.
Also, check the operation of everything before you try and pull it all back together. In my case it would have been easy to mix up which pot controlled which pickup. So I plugged the guitar in to an amp and tapped on each pickup with a piece of metal (a washer) to make sure that the pots I thought were controlling the neck/bridge actually did. You can also hear the tone pot rolloff with the same tapping on the pickup to ensure that's all hooked up right. Luckily for me, it was.
Getting theses larger pots through the f-hole was interesting. There's really only one way they'll go through. One at a time, from the longest lead to the shortest, i got them in. Then I had to pull the strings to get them into the holes. This took some effort with a coat hanger and jiggling and making sure the star washer was on the shaft with an awl. I had to back up and remove the string on the neck volume because the string was threaded behind a switch wire, then thread it back again.
After getting them all back in their respective spots, I'm happy to report that it all seems to work as it's supposed to. No broken joints in all the moving and jiggling around, no wires touching that aren't supposed to.
I should note that i spanned this over a few days, and whenever I could see I was going to get frustrated, I'd walk away. Get back to it later. It's amazing how well that works.
No pics from the process, but this one as it sits now.
I had an issue with a partially failing pot and decided to put better ones in all around. Same values as before (500k with .047uf caps on the tone pots) BUT the old were mini pots, and the new are standard sized. I didn't know this going in. I also realized that the threaded shaft on the new pots was larger (SAE vs metric) than what came out, so I was half expecting to have to drill the holes out. New ones fit, so it wasn't an issue, but they are snug.
Kind of a pain. Of course with a 335 style, there's no access cavity so you have to work through the f-holes. There's a hack for that, using dental floss (i used butchers twine) and a coat hanger to feed through the individual holes and tie them on to the posts for each pot. That's all well and good, but don't forget to thread the washers on BEFORE you pull the string through the hole.
Also, check the operation of everything before you try and pull it all back together. In my case it would have been easy to mix up which pot controlled which pickup. So I plugged the guitar in to an amp and tapped on each pickup with a piece of metal (a washer) to make sure that the pots I thought were controlling the neck/bridge actually did. You can also hear the tone pot rolloff with the same tapping on the pickup to ensure that's all hooked up right. Luckily for me, it was.
Getting theses larger pots through the f-hole was interesting. There's really only one way they'll go through. One at a time, from the longest lead to the shortest, i got them in. Then I had to pull the strings to get them into the holes. This took some effort with a coat hanger and jiggling and making sure the star washer was on the shaft with an awl. I had to back up and remove the string on the neck volume because the string was threaded behind a switch wire, then thread it back again.
After getting them all back in their respective spots, I'm happy to report that it all seems to work as it's supposed to. No broken joints in all the moving and jiggling around, no wires touching that aren't supposed to.
I should note that i spanned this over a few days, and whenever I could see I was going to get frustrated, I'd walk away. Get back to it later. It's amazing how well that works.
No pics from the process, but this one as it sits now.
#10
Food and Drink / Re: Dave'sCookinShow!!
Last post by RAGER - May 24, 2024, 09:29:43 AMI'll have the small blackened salmon Caesar in a 50 gallon drum.