Woodinblack Posted August 18, 2022 Posted August 18, 2022 3 hours ago, Ray said: The solder didn’t melt. The heat caused ‘dry’ joints. Apparently this is quite common in Fender valve amps - the heat from the valves can make the solder joints dry. Maybe it’s down to poor quality solder and/or solder joints from Fender 🤷♂️ Dry joints are a defect of manufacturing and occur within the cooling time of the solder, they can't be made afterwards due to heat. A dry joint can function and then fail later on for many reasons, heat / vibration / general stress, etc, but that would be just a side effect of an always defective connection. So in a way, its lucky it failed now due to the heat and not on a stage! 1 Quote
Ray Posted August 18, 2022 Author Posted August 18, 2022 9 minutes ago, Woodinblack said: Dry joints are a defect of manufacturing and occur within the cooling time of the solder, they can't be made afterwards due to heat. A dry joint can function and then fail later on for many reasons, heat / vibration / general stress, etc, but that would be just a side effect of an always defective connection. So in a way, its lucky it failed now due to the heat and not on a stage! Ah, okay. So the solder joints must’ve been dry all along and the heat made them fail. Gotcha! 😁 Quote
yorks5stringer Posted August 20, 2022 Posted August 20, 2022 On 18/08/2022 at 13:07, Ray said: The solder didn’t melt. The heat caused ‘dry’ joints. Apparently this is quite common in Fender valve amps - the heat from the valves can make the solder joints dry. Maybe it’s down to poor quality solder and/or solder joints from Fender 🤷♂️ Confused now, was it your valve amp that had dry joints because that is 1 million times more likely than both basses having them due to the heat? Quote
Woodinblack Posted August 20, 2022 Posted August 20, 2022 38 minutes ago, yorks5stringer said: Confused now, was it your valve amp that had dry joints because that is 1 million times more likely than both basses having them due to the heat? He said another bass worked, and the two P basses didn't. Quote
Ray Posted August 20, 2022 Author Posted August 20, 2022 2 hours ago, yorks5stringer said: Confused now, was it your valve amp that had dry joints because that is 1 million times more likely than both basses having them due to the heat? No, it was my basses, as unlikely as it seems! Quote
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