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From: detritu–(at)–x.netcom.com(Lord Valve)
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Subject: Re: Fender Bandmaster
Date: 24 Oct 1996 05:49:20 GMT
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In <54mv4l$1hf--(at)--senetp1.news.prodigy.com> LBYR90–(at)–rodigy.com (Jack
Price) writes:
Something I have noticed in all but a few BMR I’ve worked
>on is that the bright switch cap is wired incorrectly right from the
>factory. That person on the production line must have had his eyes
>closed or something. I always fine it comical when soemone brings
>over their BMR and I go right for the switch, and they say, “Yeah it
>doesn’t do much does it?” I grin.

That’s not the only one…most of the silver-face master vol amps have
the shield on one of the cables to the master vol pot connected to the
wrong side of the horizontal 100-ohm resistor. Move it to the other
side.

Fat Willie
detritu–(at)–x.netcom.com
(Lord Valve)

 

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