columbusrobbie

Absolutely. I allowed myself to become a bit blasé with this one. It’s repaired now but the guilt is real👍

A long overdue update. Now repaired. Collected last Friday. Really glad to have this months long saga concluded. Repaired fractured Pre-Amp PCB and damaged pots. This was all a result of a seemingly innocuous knock of the amp to the floor but I can only assume I was very unlucky in how it landed in terms of damaging internals. The bank balance has taken a corresponding knock as result!🤣! Anyone want to buy a slightly use D800+ head? Seriously, hindsight is wonderful but I will be giving due consideration to how I can best keep this safe and secure when in use, stored and transported. Protect your heads, friends. Whether on bike, construction site or stage! Sincere thanks to @Beedster @Steve Browning and @agedhorse for your support. Sincere thanks too to Stan and Jack at Surrey Amps.

Sincere thanks to Chris @Beedster, Steve @Steve Browning and Andy @agedhorse for your input on this. Amp now booked in for diagnosis and repair (hopefully) with Stan/Surrey Amps. Will come back and update in due course. Best regards.

Cheers @Beedster 👍 In fairness to Mesa, that was the position 4-5 months ago when my saga started and it may well have changed in the meantime. Certainly hope so. I will contact them again and hope Andy does drop by too. I’ve only just retrieved the (unrepaired) amp back so I am effectively starting over. For now though, I have an expensive paperweight sat in the corner of the room. At least it isn’t taking up any space to really speak of.

Does the collective wisdom have any suggestions or advice for a broken amp? Apparently Mesa won’t release schematics for these and there are no approved repairers in the UK at present. The head has been looked at by a former authorised repairer as once listed on the Mesa website. Broken treble and master volume controls have been diagnosed but spares unavailable to him. When it first happened, and prior to getting it looked at here, I contacted Mesa who were helpful up to a point but were effectively only offering a factory diagnosis and possible repair. Is this really my only option? Has anyone had similar and found an easier route to resolution? Cheers in advance.

I bought Phil’s Mesa Subway D800+ and ultra lite cab. Phil is a gent and, as has been said by others, an absolute pleasure to deal with. A reassuring, swift and easy transaction.

Bought a Bear Leather guitar strap off Paul. Good comms and arrived really quickly and in fantastic condition. Well packed etc. A super-smooth transaction. Really happy with my purchase. As above, would happily deal with Paul again. Cheers Paul. All the best. - Rob