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*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
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*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
It's not actually illegal to own one, but there are places you won't be allowed to use an amp with one, and you may need to be careful about selling one if you're a business.
Rightly so. They were never safe really - the cable retention in the plug is too poor to provide any strength, the most common type can be taken apart without tools while the other end is plugged in, the size of the socket holes in the plug is larger than ideal, and the contact between the pins and the tubes they fit into is questionable.
Get rid of them on anything other than a collector's item. They have no place on any working amp - not least because if you don't have a spare one, if you lose or damage the cable you're stuffed. An IEC cable can be much more easily replaced.
Because they degrade over time, and can leak, short-circuit or occasionally explode, sometimes causing damage to really valuable parts of the amp like the transformers. Thirty years is a sensible cut-off for life expectancy, so any 70s or older amp needs doing really.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
You still haven't addressed the cool issue- you bloody techy types don't get this...
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
You have a point mate, we'd be like the lower 6th formers and they'd be the too cool for school upper 6th. Shit, imagine if it was an old bloke who bought it? Them two would be huddled up talking about 'Hiwatts back in the day' and even if we did survive the culling they'd be imposing a cardigan, slacks and orthopaedic shoes club dress code...
Can't let that happen. I am going to report the listing and get it pulled in order to maintain the brotherhood.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein