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This is my first amp which I got almost 10 years ago and it's been sitting in my living room broken for years. I believe the only thing wrong with it is the input jack piece that's connected to the circuit board itself, but I think it's a start at least getting that fixed (I remember some old humming noise, but that may be fixed with this.)
Here's the board that I took out from the speaker cab/case and you can see that I put an arrow where the piece goes:
Closeup of where the input jack fits onto the board:
And here's the piece:
You can see 4 small holes on the board and the actual part that you plug your cable into the piece at sticks out through the bigger hole on the front of the board casing. One of the little silver metal pieces that you see sticking down on the piece is kind of screwed up and it's missing some solder metal stuff that was originally on it, so it won't "stick" to inside the 4 holes. It jiggles around even when I put the washer onto the front/outside of the amp to lock it down so I think I'm going to need to have someone place it back onto the board and have it soldered so it will stay in place and not jiggle around (I can put it back into place, but it will need to be soldered to be secure I think.) There may be a way around that so I decided to check here. If this amp is going to cost a bit to be repaired, I'll most likely not worry about it since it'd defeat the purpose.
There may be a way to get around having to do all of the soldering stuff and I'd like to find a way, but I'll most likely need to get a new input jack for it since the one pictured above is out of whack and I don't know what it's called and where to get a replacement. I actually had this same problem fixed once years ago and it was a good bit (the place I brought it to is a ripoff) but back in the day I didn't take care of it like I should have and once it's fixed, I'll make sure to be careful with not abusing the input jack so this won't happen again.
Here's the board that I took out from the speaker cab/case and you can see that I put an arrow where the piece goes:
Closeup of where the input jack fits onto the board:
And here's the piece:
You can see 4 small holes on the board and the actual part that you plug your cable into the piece at sticks out through the bigger hole on the front of the board casing. One of the little silver metal pieces that you see sticking down on the piece is kind of screwed up and it's missing some solder metal stuff that was originally on it, so it won't "stick" to inside the 4 holes. It jiggles around even when I put the washer onto the front/outside of the amp to lock it down so I think I'm going to need to have someone place it back onto the board and have it soldered so it will stay in place and not jiggle around (I can put it back into place, but it will need to be soldered to be secure I think.) There may be a way around that so I decided to check here. If this amp is going to cost a bit to be repaired, I'll most likely not worry about it since it'd defeat the purpose.
There may be a way to get around having to do all of the soldering stuff and I'd like to find a way, but I'll most likely need to get a new input jack for it since the one pictured above is out of whack and I don't know what it's called and where to get a replacement. I actually had this same problem fixed once years ago and it was a good bit (the place I brought it to is a ripoff) but back in the day I didn't take care of it like I should have and once it's fixed, I'll make sure to be careful with not abusing the input jack so this won't happen again.
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