Nostalgic Distortion
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I'm not sure if anyone has tried this or not but I've got like 3 different stupid Gibson quick connect systems just laying around because I've ripped them out of my guitars. There's been a few times over the past couple years that I've thought to myself "What a waste!" because there is some quality parts mixed in with all that plastic....
500K Gibson long shaft potentiometers & Orange Drop capacitors (albeit with short legs) can be expensive when you need so many & every time I've done one I've bought all new stuff. If i had known that you could get viable pots out of the original (which I never intended to keep anyway) I could have saved myself quite a bit of money!!! C'est la vie right???
Anyway, the fact that I made it work may not come as a surprise to some of you but I was pretty impressed! Lol, I was sitting around kinda board this morning and I decided that I'd try and get one apart and see what happened. It takes some doing & I'd imagine a solder sucker or at least some solder wick is a must but it can be done with some want to & some patients...
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I took the picture before I pulled the capacitors but they came out slick as, well you know what! The only things that are a bit of a PIA is the fact that the prongs are bent over backwards and they don't have any eyelets...
Neither of these things are very serious problems, you can easily bend them the right way as long as you do it carefully and if you can't get around the eyelet issue than you probably have no business soldering in the first place???
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LOL, I know it's a dumb thread but I'm sure someone somewhere is thinking about pulling out their Q.C. harness & buying bits to build another right now, perhaps this will help them save some cash too??? Now I'm going to go find something to do with these guys!!!
500K Gibson long shaft potentiometers & Orange Drop capacitors (albeit with short legs) can be expensive when you need so many & every time I've done one I've bought all new stuff. If i had known that you could get viable pots out of the original (which I never intended to keep anyway) I could have saved myself quite a bit of money!!! C'est la vie right???
Anyway, the fact that I made it work may not come as a surprise to some of you but I was pretty impressed! Lol, I was sitting around kinda board this morning and I decided that I'd try and get one apart and see what happened. It takes some doing & I'd imagine a solder sucker or at least some solder wick is a must but it can be done with some want to & some patients...
View attachment 76176
I took the picture before I pulled the capacitors but they came out slick as, well you know what! The only things that are a bit of a PIA is the fact that the prongs are bent over backwards and they don't have any eyelets...
Neither of these things are very serious problems, you can easily bend them the right way as long as you do it carefully and if you can't get around the eyelet issue than you probably have no business soldering in the first place???
View attachment 76177
LOL, I know it's a dumb thread but I'm sure someone somewhere is thinking about pulling out their Q.C. harness & buying bits to build another right now, perhaps this will help them save some cash too??? Now I'm going to go find something to do with these guys!!!
