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Heard back from him, no apology, just said "Put it in a vice and you can use a electric hand drill to drill it out. I use the Epoxy in Red and black tubes. Do not separate the two halves or it will rupture the crystal. Gib"piaptk wrote:Yeah. He rewound a couple heads for me years ago, grounded the coils to the case or something so it smoked immediately after sending any audio through it (he only tests it by using it as a playback pickup, and doesnt run audio at all). I sent them back and he ignored my emails and calls for a year and eventually sent the dead heads back (WITHOUT THE MONEY I HAD ALREADY PAID HIM) and said “i dont have time for this, send them to Len.
When he started taking repairs again, i gave him the chance to make it good and he just ignored me.
timefraud wrote: ↑Mon Jun 24, 2019 12:49 ampiaptk wrote:Yeah. He rewound a couple heads for me years ago, grounded the coils to the case or something so it smoked immediately after sending any audio through it (he only tests it by using it as a playback pickup, and doesnt run audio at all). I sent them back and he ignored my emails and calls for a year and eventually sent the dead heads back (WITHOUT THE MONEY I HAD ALREADY PAID HIM) and said “i dont have time for this, send them to Len.
When he started taking repairs again, i gave him the chance to make it good and he just ignored me.
Heard back from him, no apology, just said "Put it in a vice and you can use a electric hand drill to drill it out. I use the Epoxy in Red and black tubes. Do not separate the two halves or it will rupture the crystal. Gib"
Well after 2 hours spent dremelling and drilling it out cafrefully the head appears to work, my cuts are soooo noisey though. like I don't expect anything beautiful sounding and am pretty used to extremely lofi recordings but there a constant shhhhhhhh sound at all times. I understand that these things sound rough but this seems excessive. If anyone has any tips I'd love to know. I'm cutting plates with steal needles, taping em down and trying turtle wax. The music is audible but the hiss is so loud I can't imagine even noise kids listening to it.
