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I couldn't bum-bum the bassline to Good Times or any Motown stuff, and I am a bassist. Sort of. Whole lotta love is a guitar riff. I'll give you Another one bites the dust.

Can't see any way to report this as fake on a web browser on PC, either Firefox or Chrome - no question mark on the screen. I have reported it via the Ebay app though (top right three dots, "Help & Report"). Not only has it got a higher price, it's even got a reserve on it.

I can think of very few genuinely iconic basslines, as in basslines that would be recognised and sung (or gone bum-bum-bum to) by people who aren't bassists. The Chain by Fleetwood Mac, Dancing in the moonlight by Thin Lizzy, Brown eyed girl by Van Morrison, Peaches by The Stranglers.

Is that the service fee?

I use the combo speakon/jack sockets, so I can swing either way.

The sides all battened up. Yes, that batten is a bit long - it's now been sanded down. I still have to do a tiny bit of tidying to the chamfering as the connector plate isn't absolutely flush - only about 1mm off.

Connector plate hole cut out - I cut it a bit undersize then chamfered the edge, and I may well do the same thing for the speaker hole. Port hole also cut. Router jig ordered to cut circular hole. Battens applied to sides. Due to a dose of flu, I've called a short halt because bouts of dizziness and power tools don't mix. I have a feeling that I may need to sand down the sides of the front and rear panels as they're a tiny bit short and a tiny bit fat.

Connect the two 1+ together and the two 1- together. Connect the 1+ to the +/red of the speaker and 1- to the -/black. And I use thin neoprene draught proofing strip. Unfortunately I've bought both 1mm thick and 3mm thick so I don't know which one I used on my previous builds, but it was 10mm wide.

AIUI the electrons only travel a short way, then knock an electron out of the atom they're joining, which then moves on in its turn. So there isn't a huge migration of electrons into and out of the wire. The cells in our body are a bit different, as it's actually cells replicating and old cells dying that causes the renewal. Given how small electrons are, it's more likely that it's repeated thermal expansion and contraction, plus vibration, that eventually causes a screw to loosen. And of course there's always the chance that whoever did it up didn't do it up tightly enough.

Have a look in Repairs and Technical -

That shows what I was saying about the routing - it's just a massive trench, unlike the SUB Ray5 which has a far neater rout for the control section.

That's what I'm doing - looking closely at the photos which should show whether it's genuine (the photos on the fake one show what you're getting but I was just going off the auction title, not realising there were fakes going around).

I can manage quite a lot from watching the guitarist's hands. It's even better when they have chord charts as I can sight read those (although when there's a capo involved it gets trickier).

I bought a couple of what were supposedly Hercules GSP38WB Plus wall hangers off Ebay - they were slightly cheaper than buying off Amazon and I'm not putting money into Jeff Bezos's insatiable pockets. However, when they arrived, they turned out to be Chinese copies [1] called Galux GH-110W. Very similar to the Hercules ones but I don't know how trustworthy they are. As the Aliexpress listing for them says they're "zinc alloy", I feel quite disinclined to hang anything heavy or valuable from them. [1] I'm aware that the Hercules ones themselves are probably made in China

Guy Pratt. John Taylor.