RIC 2030 innards

[Madein1962]

As I currently have my Rickenbacker 2030 Hamburg Bass in pieces (pending a refinish); I thought it would be a good opportunity to take some pics of the components, for anyone who might be curious.

Obviously, there aren't too many of these around in the UK and I haven't seen any images of the pickups / controls online.

 

These Basses have sometimes been wrongly described as being active. The Bass is fully passive but has the controls are mounted on a circuit board.

The pickups are single coil hum cancelling and are apparently the same as the pickups in the 3000 / 3001 Basses but with a different mounting. The 2030 pickups are secured and adjusted from the rear of the body. In addition, there is a small "circuit board" on the rear of the pickups.

A further difference is that the 3000 series pickups are wax sealed; the 2030 pickups appear to be sealed in epoxy.

 

Edited September 16 by Madein1962

[itu]

There's quite a lot of resin residue in the PCBA. You can clean it with spirit. It does no harm to the board, but don't let it reach the pots. If pots are dry/scratchy, use a little bit of Deoxit.

[Madein1962]

1 minute ago, itu said:

There's quite a lot of resin residue in the PCBA. You can clean it with spirit. It does no harm to the board, but don't let it reach the pots. If pots are dry/scratchy, use a little bit of Deoxit.

Hi itu

Done and done 👍 

I cleaned the board with isopropyl and gave the pots and pickup connectors etc a shot of Deoxit D5.

Hopefully all will be well. The pots have some numbers on them but I haven't been able to properly identify them yet.