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  • Fixing microphonic/squealing metal covered P90's - in progress...

    So...

    god my sweet saviour and his god'darn holy Jesus Christ son of a *****....

    Now I've spent over an hour, trying to pry loose the metal covers of my Epiphone Wildkat's P90's-

    with a POS. soldering iron I borrowed- that managed to heat EVERYTHING up, unless the solder-

    So I got mad, and TORE the last pickup cover off the pickup.


    ....

    Now, I've burnt both my thumb, and the volume knob of my guitar;

    and applied a TON (it's enough) of tube silicone, between the pickup and cover. The guitar would previously give off an intense, high pitched squeal- in every application high gain and "normal" volume-
    if I didn't put a finger on the metal cover, to stop it.

    I'm now waiting for the covers/silicone to dry, and I hope I didn't fry the pickup wiring, with this useless soldering iron.... :/

    I'm gonna post back the final results.

    cheers (cooling my burnt thumb with homemade wine)

    -Erlend
    If somethings important- send a PM. I might be offline for long periods. Rock on!!!

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    Re: Fixing microphonic/squealing metal covered P90's - in progress...

    Guitar pickups are let to dry-

    I will wipe off the remaining/excess silicone, and test them first thing tomorrow

    -Erl
    If somethings important- send a PM. I might be offline for long periods. Rock on!!!

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    • #3
      Re: Fixing microphonic/squealing metal covered P90's - in progress...

      Noticed that the neck pickup cover was mounted ... FAR away from the pickup itself.... making it effecticely a "bell" feeding back...

      and the brigde pickup had the same problem.

      as said, I applied a GENEROUS amount of silicone-on-tube between pickups and covers, clamped them together- and left to dry.

      -Erl
      If somethings important- send a PM. I might be offline for long periods. Rock on!!!

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      • #4
        Re: Fixing microphonic/squealing metal covered P90's - in progress...

        It’ll be interesting to see if that works as well as wax potting.
        “I can play the hell out of a riff. The rest of it’s all bulls**t anyway,” Gary Holt

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        • #5
          Re: Fixing microphonic/squealing metal covered P90's - in progress...

          Yeah, I'll report back tomorrow;

          when pickups and silicone has dried- and mounted back in the guitar

          see ya, in 12-14 hours! . good night.
          If somethings important- send a PM. I might be offline for long periods. Rock on!!!

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          • #6
            Re: Fixing microphonic/squealing metal covered P90's - in progress...

            I would have just wax potted the pickups. You wouldn't have needed to remove the covers.

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            • #7
              Re: Fixing microphonic/squealing metal covered P90's - in progress...

              Originally posted by idsnowdog View Post
              I would have just wax potted the pickups. You wouldn't have needed to remove the covers.
              well, done is done :/

              They even have "quick connectors" on them... :o

              I would have needed wax, though ... maybe just a candle? stupid me.


              anyways. I'm about to mount the pickups and give it a "high gain" test. Surely the silicone has the right consistency to dampen a "bell like" cover;
              so I hope things work out. The bridge still gives off a little "clank" sound, when i hit it with a screwdriver- but the neck pickup now sounds completely "dead". .

              That may be because the bridge cover is much larger, and well, "bell shaped". I also forgot to "lift up the soldering metal bits", to make sure there was no space between the bridge pickup & cover. But had half a tube of silicone in there. :/

              It can't be *worse* than it was, (seeing that I haven't melted any pickup wiring)-

              but the pickup will be real hard to loosen from the cover, hehe .

              yeah, wax potting. Will try that next time \m/

              ....final results in an hour!
              (horrible hangover. need some air, and some beer.)

              EDIT: Peeling off excess silicone from the pole piece screws....is..just... ah to heck with it. It looks "cool". xD
              Last edited by Erlend_G; 07-15-2020, 01:30 AM.
              If somethings important- send a PM. I might be offline for long periods. Rock on!!!

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              • #8
                Re: Fixing microphonic/squealing metal covered P90's - in progress...

                Ok.

                Destroyed neck pickup; because soldering iron slipped loose, and ripped off the windings. :/

                But bridge pickup is still alive.

                This kinda sucks. But OK. I can't sit around and be pissed off, or regret stuff... !! :o

                Time to find a replacement neck pickup;
                and quit using ****ty tools while drunk on homemade wine, (if that helps, not killing more of my gear).

                Will mount the pickups tho.
                If somethings important- send a PM. I might be offline for long periods. Rock on!!!

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                • #9
                  Re: Fixing microphonic/squealing metal covered P90's - in progress...

                  Bridge pickup is now completely squeal-free;

                  and it also sounds darker; it earlier had a "metallic bright ring" to it, that's now also gone. Can't decide if I really like /that/, but the squeal HAD to go.

                  Too bad about the neck pickup.

                  sorry.
                  If somethings important- send a PM. I might be offline for long periods. Rock on!!!

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