PC1 emergency! Oh boy!!

[Bryan]

Lookit how sad my PC1 looks without a sustainer or strings.



On a brighter note, I sure did get a pretty good pic of the quilt!!

[Bengal65]

The quilt does look great! Yea, I guess I won't touch mine. Hopefully Jackson will start making these available as an accessory. Just like all of what Fender does with it's wide range of available parts. Heck, I just bought a Fernandez to install in my Agile.

[Soap]

Hey Bengal?

I've been thinking of going the Fernandez route as well.
Can I look you up when I get it and ready to install?
You know for helpful guidance and stuff

[Bengal65]

Hey Bengal?

I've been thinking of going the Fernandez route as well.
Can I look you up when I get it and ready to install?
You know for helpful guidance and stuff

Absolutely! Which model are you planning on installing and in what guitar? What Fernandez does not clearly show in their advertisements and website is that the switches that control the sustainer are "hard mounted" to the control circuit board. In some cases routing will be required to get the board as close to the top surface of the guitar, so that the mini-toggle switches go through the top or (pickguard if one is used). The amount of routing required depends on what guitar it is installed on.

Didn't mean to Hi-Jack the thread guy's

[rjohnstone]

Got the driver today and it was a classic example of mass production at it's finest.
A shit load of glue on one side and NONE on the other.
Had to scrape and lightly sand a mixture of rubber cement... yes I said rubber cement... and some very brittle glue off of the underside of the base plate.

Anyway, here it is all fixed up. The marks on the bottom of the blades are from when I was scraping the glue off. It's just paint, but I needed a clean surface to re-glue the base back onto. I would normaly touch it up, but I'm out of flat black spray paint.

The circled area is where the metal shield must have cut into the wiring.
I suspect this is what contributed to the base plate coming loose and not being able to be lowered properly.

Bryan, when you reinstall it, make sure the wiring is not under the pickup or caught under the shield. It looks like only the outer layer got cut and not the internal wiring. You may want to put some electrical tape over it for good measure before you install it.

I connected it up to my PC1 and the driver works fine.
It will be in the mail first thing tomorrow. You should have it in time for the weekend.



P.S.
I know it's not a pretty job, but it's solid.

[danastas]

Excellent

And amazing. Rick rules!

[Bengal65]

And amazing. Rick rules!

+1

[Soap]

+1

[shreddermon]

Very cool of you, dude.

[wicked_lester]

Rick that was very cool...good mojo comin' your way.

[Bryan]

Rick is tha man!! Thanks for all your help in getting by new toy up and running. I tell you one thing, this is one new guitar story I will never forget.

I think I just heard a sigh of relief and a squeal of joy from inside my Jackson case....

[jackson1]

Wow rj!

[StukaJU87]

Nice one RJ.

[toejam]

Excellent!

[rjohnstone]

Thanks guys... anything to help out a bro in need.
As for the fix if anyone is interested...
Gotta stay away from stiff drying epoxy with these (i.e., JB Weld or 5 minute type stuff).
The base on these things are very brittle plastic and the ears can break off very easy. So I used an epoxy that has some flexibility to it.
I wanted to spread any pressure away from the ears and distribute it accross the entire base.
So it will have some flex to it and the base will pop off rather than break if too much pressure is applied.
It's easier to re-glue it back on than try and fix busted off ear pieces. It's solid though. After curing all night, I tried to pop it off by hand this morning before I shipped it and it wasn't budging.
I can't for the life of me remember the name of the stuff though.
It's a two part epoxy that my father-in-law gave me, but the label has long since fallen off of the tubes.
It dries kind of a white-ish in color.