Stub Mandrel

Or use a resistor ladder and just one pin set to a2d mode.

Double booked for tomorrow... asked to play at 7 instead, but other band has pulled out. It's an hour away and my mate has been learning the songs to dep guitar so glad it will be straightforward.

I'd be looking but don't jump unless you are sure. Maybe just go on Facebook and look for bands needing a regular dep.

This made me go and check my bass with HB flats on. Hideoeus rattling! Then I noticed the neck relief had disappeared, so I slacked the truss rod off by 1/3 turn, all quiet now.

Amateur 🤣

I place it above lead guitar 😉

Eurovidion has bcome a sort of huge celebration of csmp culture. It's not really about music at all. Personally I think the U K should enter Duga Doo as I'm 90% sure it would win.

Rhythm guitar is just bass without the riffs and syncopation 😉

I would guess so, almost entirely UK acts!

Katie Zit. IYKYK

Suits a certain kind of voice.

If anyone needs to make one for themselves: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7298327/files

I was looking at the AD-80. But that's only 20kW for 30ms. But 14kW RMS is still around 60Amps. That's more than the beefiest electric shower. I'd only use that hard-wired in place. And not with a domestic supply. And the specs for the big one are downright scary!

Good Lord! It fits and works perfectly. I haven't greased it, and once the Nylon one is made (Nylon 66 is self-lubricating in this sort of application) I'll swap it over.

I'm convinced a replacement is likely to fail again. I've realised the main role of the bush is to stop the inner shaft rotating by engaging with two slots in the outer shaft. My parts were a good fit, but lacked the outer engagement pins so reprinting them. I've tracked down my PTFE grease which is great for this sort of thing. An alternative would be a metal key 25mm long, 8.5 x 5mm section, with rounded ends, popped through the hole in the inner shaft. Perhaps with a plastic sleeve around it.

Here we go. I'll do a trial in PLA, and later print it in Nylon (because the small amount of nylon filament I have is a few years old and needs drying first). Design is (hopefully) printable without support for a decent surface finish.

I've found the issue and though easy to diagnose, it's not a simple repair. To disassemble hold the hefty ring st the bottom of the main shaft in a vice and unscrew: Now loosen the grub screw in the upper two-axis clamp and twist it off. It took a fair bit of twisting and pulling to extract the inner shaft. The culprit is this small insert that guides the inner shaft. It has a tiny cross-section above the slots and should be held in place by inner lugs inside two rectangular slots (one visible). Obviously it failed at the weak points and was causing the jam as the two parts caught on each other. A replacement would require removal of the end plug, but this would probably damage the plug and/or shaft (plug fixed by dimples made in the shaft). Proper replacement would therefore require a new inner shaft. My alternatives are: Moan at Hercules (who still haven't redponded) for a new inner shaft. Fit the larger remnant of the guide ring. It still has its locating lugs, but looks damaged and likely to fail. Leave it off and rely on the end plug to keep the inner shaft aligned (may work but could end up with the plug failing). Make a new guide, split so it can be fitted around the shaft. Lots of ways to do this, might try two 3D printed parts, with teflon grease so they don't 'pick up'.

I think if he had said "you can't buy me that, I will fail the Basschat Gear Abstinence Challenge" and she bought it anyway, it would be ok. Of course, this would make him a liar and she would leave him, after smashing the bass over his head.

20kW would demand an 80 amp+ supply at 240V requiring conductors the size of my little finger... You ain't going to run that off a 13A socket or a standard ring main.

Yes it can make it expand temporarily... but I just needed to free it up.

This isn't the same sort of stickiness. It's a mechanical jamming, not the pladtic degrading - as far as I can tell.

Barry Morris posted some excellent pics of Sunday's gig on Facebook 😎

Neeps... you're a lot more relaxed than previous adjudicators! 🤣

BL carefully working out how many groats he can afford to pay the band?

Some people are like that. I have a 'dual gauge' a bourdon gauge that can measure both pressure and vacuum. Very sensitive and out of Bourdon's own workshop. So rare I haven't been able to find any documentation or other examples. But it has both ink and embossed stamps that check out. My ex-wife bought it at a bootsale for me for £5 along with a bunch of other more modern bits. I got tracked down by a collector and asked to name my price. I won't sell it, I've actually found it useful on occasion and it looks nice.