So...
Yesterday I went on the "big operation prochedure" of dampening/muting my P90's metal covers; that gave off a HORRIBLE squeal under mid/high gain; even at livingroom volumes.
So, I gathered up the courage, to perform the operation, that was going to be pretty simple (I thought):
1.Unscrew pickups
2. Heat solder & remove with soldering "braid", to remove cover from pickup
3. Apply silicone between pickup & cover, clamp it together, and let it dry overnight.
Now! My bridge pickup is absolutely! squeal free. It has lost some of it's original "metallic ring", and sounds darker. Maybe the pickups were designed/intended as for the covers to "sing along"; but it made them USELESS for me, so I tried to fix it.
But. While struggling, with a 12USD soldering iron, I had borrowed - that would NOT become hot enough to melt the darn solder, to get the cover off-
I became agitated, and somehow managed to mash the soldering iron into my neck pickup's windings. It's completely dead now.
So... I wonder, what are my choices, of a relatively cheap & fitting replacement? I'm afraid I can't afford a new SD; (yeah, this is the place to write that...)
but maybe GFS has something? :/
I'm really sorry how this turned out, but hey- **** happens;
and DON'T start working on expensive stuff, with CHEAP tools that doesn't work (and no patience).
any help appreciated.
-Erlend
Yesterday I went on the "big operation prochedure" of dampening/muting my P90's metal covers; that gave off a HORRIBLE squeal under mid/high gain; even at livingroom volumes.
So, I gathered up the courage, to perform the operation, that was going to be pretty simple (I thought):
1.Unscrew pickups
2. Heat solder & remove with soldering "braid", to remove cover from pickup
3. Apply silicone between pickup & cover, clamp it together, and let it dry overnight.
Now! My bridge pickup is absolutely! squeal free. It has lost some of it's original "metallic ring", and sounds darker. Maybe the pickups were designed/intended as for the covers to "sing along"; but it made them USELESS for me, so I tried to fix it.
But. While struggling, with a 12USD soldering iron, I had borrowed - that would NOT become hot enough to melt the darn solder, to get the cover off-
I became agitated, and somehow managed to mash the soldering iron into my neck pickup's windings. It's completely dead now.
So... I wonder, what are my choices, of a relatively cheap & fitting replacement? I'm afraid I can't afford a new SD; (yeah, this is the place to write that...)
but maybe GFS has something? :/
I'm really sorry how this turned out, but hey- **** happens;
and DON'T start working on expensive stuff, with CHEAP tools that doesn't work (and no patience).
any help appreciated.
-Erlend
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