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[quote name='icastle' post='1163143' date='Mar 15 2011, 02:30 PM']It might explain the price it was sold for though...[/quote] yea ill try emailing them i see what u mean, the guy i bought it from was a house clearance guy and had no idea what it was he maybe have even had a power supply but i unfprtunatly did not ask but yea ill try emailing them i guess they wont mind if worst comes to worst i can just use my transformer from my work and change the input so i can plug it in and hope its good does anyone know if this is a good sounding amp?

ok yea i guess thats the best idea,ill take try and get it down to my local engineer. i contacted mercury magnets but they sent me a sales responce trying to sell me stuff so that didnt really help. the one he said was the right on is 180 dollars so not really worth it ha and didnt tell me what what my one is. ill see what he says and ill let u know the results!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cheers for the help guys

opened it up today and took some pics. hope these shed light on anything or helps u help me in anyway

[quote name='alexclaber' post='1161536' date='Mar 14 2011, 11:07 AM']I'd be very surprised if it isn't just mislabelled and is actually a 230V version! It's not the type of gear that people are going to save money on by buying from the USA (due to the shipping costs vs saving on a cheap-ish combo). Opening up and looking at the transformer may enlighten you, or getting a tech to disconnect the transformer from the power supply and testing the voltage. Depending on what you paid you might just want to plug it in and see what happens (I take no responsibility if I'm wrong!)[/quote] Before you melt anything, look at the SWR site under the old products section - there may be a user manual that will tell you about an internal re-wire option for the transformer. Your amp is labelled "SWR Engineering", which is the older name for the original company. There is a good chance of a cheap and safe fix for this" yea ok ill have a look and see if i can find any info about that on their site, i suppose i cud try it, it has a sticker on the back that says "london guitar aid" which is a repair company so maybe he alredy changed the transformer bit :S i cud just plug it in and try i suppose buut wud be lame if it blew up ;((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((

[quote name='icastle' post='1160547' date='Mar 13 2011, 03:07 PM']Well it's going to be a workshop job. Someone was looking at doing the exact same thing on a Mesa recently and it was pretty close to about £200 IIRC.[/quote] savageeeeeeeee i cant afford that haha i might just see if my transformer i use for my tools at work can be changed to put a 3 pin plug input on it. ha ill have to carry that around with me tho im sure thats similar to that thing on ebay

[quote name='icastle' post='1160034' date='Mar 13 2011, 12:08 AM']That power supply is far too small. You need something of at least 360W (it's written on the back panel of your amp ) The mains lead is fine but you might not actually need it if the transformer you choose has a bog standard UK socket on it.[/quote] ah i see thats abit annoying what about like the other guys said about getting the transformer changed internally? what would that entail and cost? cheers for the help all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[quote name='ahpook' post='1159695' date='Mar 12 2011, 06:36 PM']if it were mine i'd see about getting the transformer replaced with a UK voltage one. swr make good amps. i have two [/quote] "Excellent, pro quality kit. Well worth the cost replacing the transformer, or the cost and inconvenience of an external one. If you got this at usual car boot prices, you've nabbed a real bargainf" ha yea i do love carboots sometimes man it was a tenner but i guess it still might not work i gues. how much would chanigng the transformer cost do u think? i would be well up for that if its not too dear. i was looking at these 2 things [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stepdown-240-120v-Transformer-100VA/dp/B000NIYF0K/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1299955075&sr=8-2"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stepdown-240-120v-...5075&sr=8-2[/url] and [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/COMPAQ--U.S-KETTLE-LEAD_W0QQitemZ230376003983QQcmdZViewItem?rvr_id=217343734940&rvr_id=217343734940&cguid=51c049291260a0aad1e77dc7ffb5cb85"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/COMPAQ--U.S-KETTLE-L...1e77dc7ffb5cb85[/url] would these do the trick? cheers for finding the specs for me dude

[quote name='icastle' post='1159627' date='Mar 12 2011, 05:54 PM']You can't run it directly off UK mains. You'll need a transformer to drop 230V down to 110V. Something like [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Toroidal-500W-Step-Down-Converter-Transformer-220-110V-/390074985804"]this [/url]would do the trick.[/quote] cheers for letting us know man. thats a bit savage i bet thats well heavy i suppose i should of checked what a retard!!!!!! does anyone know what these are worth? and if its they sound good and that cos otherwise i wont bother

hi guys, just bought this at a carboot sale saw swr and thought it must be worth getting ha, but didnt come with a power supply and it says 120 volts as u can see in the picture which i guess means its american but its a normal kettle lead slot. so just wondeirng if any of you know if i need to get a specific kettle lead or will i be ok with a normal 230v adapter? also does anyone know what these are worth? all help as always is much appreciated cheers

didnt one of these sell like 4 months ago for like 550 on ebay? i think it was in white tho

[quote name='absolutpepper' post='1139636' date='Feb 24 2011, 09:44 AM']Yes it is but its overpriced. The G-3 is tonally the best of the bunch but even in such good condition it should be £700 max.[/quote] nice red amp and cab btw that must be sick

[quote name='absolutpepper' post='1139636' date='Feb 24 2011, 09:44 AM']Yes it is but its overpriced. The G-3 is tonally the best of the bunch but even in such good condition it should be £700 max.[/quote] thats good to know dude i wasnt too sure on the price, tho i was hopeing someone would want to "knock me down" abit and go less then 800. ill probly reprice it in a bit cheers

[quote name='Conan' post='1121412' date='Feb 9 2011, 02:38 PM'][url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=117983&hl=les+claypool"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...hl=les+claypool[/url][/quote] didnt realise, i dont stay up to date enuff obviosuly

[quote name='paul_5' post='1121362' date='Feb 9 2011, 01:46 PM']Yeah baby, planning to go to Manchester. Roll on Friday morning.[/quote] ye going to london show alredy got my tickits cos im with o2 thankfully its gonna be sickkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk, so that bass might be going on sale thats cool probly will be like 3 grand i guess. does anyone have any more pics at all?

alllllllllllllrite so i see primus are coming to england!!! thats pritty good anyone going? anyway i saw a new pic of a recent les claypool show and saw hes got a new custom bass and cant find much about it i know that its more of a fender shape. anyone know anything about it? cheers!

[quote name='BassBus' post='1117649' date='Feb 6 2011, 01:39 PM']This is where it starts to get complicated. Is that the speaking length you mean (the exposed length with no silk)? I've just measured an old 3/4 string which has about 150cm of exposed string. A 3/4 DB usually has a playing length of around 106cm. 4/4 will be longer, hence the need for different strings.[/quote] ahhh cheers for checking dude it is a pain in the arse cos i thought oh ill be able to get strings easy. i dunno i recon 4/4 might just be long enuff, didnt think it wud be expencive either as i built the whamola for basically nothing so this will be the most expencive thing i guess. ill try and get in contact with a shop and see if they will measure one for me. i feel sorry for u double bass guys i didnt realise ur strings cost so much cheers for the advice guys much appreciateddddddddddddddddd ;D