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Not bass related but hoping someone might be able to help recently acquired an orange guitar head, reverb doesn’t work, at all took the head apart and found the wires inside the tank (it looks) have been cut off, seems a simple job to solder them back on but can anyone tell me if it matters which way round the go?! i.e. green or black at the top or bottom or should it not matter much?! if anyone knows what those plastic connectors (there’s only one left) are called or where I can find some, that might be a tidier solution many thanks in advance

So I’ve been looking for a project, stumbled upon the idea of converting a squier bronco to a bass vi quick bit of research and then found a bronco, not far from me, for a fair price, collecting next week so I’m starting to look around for bits… as far as I understand it, in regards to parts all I need is… new bridge new nut set of tuners new strings and Robert’s your fathers brother Question 1… what bridge would work?! Would a “standard” guitar bridge work or do I need to look for something specific, I’m thinking more along the lines of string spacing if here, I wondered if a normal hard tail strat type bridge with threaded saddles might do the trick? Question 2… any advice on how / where to mark for the new / extra tuner holes? Are there templates for this or is there an idiot proof method for getting it right? any thoughts / comments / experience gladly received

Perfick! Thankyou for that

@Buddster that’s pretty much what I was after, do you have any links to the bits you got at all?!

@SuperSeagull That’s pretty much what I’m looking to do… Trying to work out the best way of securing the plug to the board

That could be the one as what you say makes a lot of sense Will have to figure out a way of attaching it to the board

Not sure I COMPLETELY get what you mean?! are you talking about one of these? if you meant replacing the mains 3 pin plug with one of these https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/iec-connectors/8117213 that’s pretty much what I was after as I can’t see that this on its own has any sort of electrical overload protection

@John Cribbin didn’t think of spade connectors but that’s a great point @BigRedX I see your point regarding the shrouds, was also thinking maybe some heat shrink over each wire / spade connector

I THINK something like this with a 10a fuse and screw terminals would be just the ticket, just can’t find one with screw terminals https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/iec-connectors/8117213 happy to be corrected or pointed in the direction of something like this with screw terminals or how I would safely wire this one up

Close to what I mean yes what I’m looking to do is screw the iec socket (as pictured in my original post) to my board and connect that to an extension lead that will be secured underneath the board. In theory, I’d like a pedalboard that can be powered by plugging in a regular kettle lead like this mostly inspired by something like this (as circled) main concerns are fusing really as the socket I’m after (as pictured in original post) doesn’t appear to have any type of electrical protection, I’m not sure if something like that can be wired onto maybe an already fused extension outlet

Hey all, apologies for the potentially stupid question… currently building a pedalboard and would like to be able to power the whole thing from a kettle lead so my question(s)… can anyone advise as to how I can wire up one of these to one of these… what would I need and how can it be done? many thanks in advance y’all

Thanks for all the suggestions so far have started building a new board of my own design which will have cable routing channels built underneath it just have to work out the power supply brick situation but pending the sale of a zoom pedal I have for sale currently @Lozz196’s gator seems to be a good contender

Thanks for the info guys I found out the ratings for each pedal on the old wide world web and found these figures Boss RC-50 (9v 450mA) MXR Carbon Copy (9v 26mA) EHX Small Clone (9v 12mA) EHX Micro POG / MXR Bass Octave Deluxe (still need to decide) (9v 180mA / 9v 14mA) EHX Small Stone (9v 12mA) Boss BD2 (9v 20mA) ProCo Rat (9v 3mA) Boss DS1 (9v 4mA) EHX Big Muff (9v 3mA) Boss TU-2 or TU-3 / Korg pitchblack (9v 55mA / 9v 20mA) @Lozz196 you sir have a PM

Hey all, currently working on a new pedalboard setup in the past I’ve just powered all pedals from their own power supplies but messy cable OCD always niggled at me Looking at a power brick type power supply to try and neaten things up a bit understanding that I may have to use a dedicated power supply for at least one pedal (Boss RC-50) or maybe two power bricks for the rest, I’m struggling to work out the best way to get the board up and running new pedalboard will look something like this (in no particular order) Power ratings found on t’interweb so happy to be corrected if need be Boss RC-50 (9v 450mA) MXR Carbon Copy (9v 26mA) EHX Small Clone (9v 12mA) EHX Micro POG / MXR Bass Octave Deluxe (still need to decide) (9v 180mA / 9v 14mA) EHX Small Stone (9v 12mA) Boss BD2 (9v 20mA) ProCo Rat (9v 3mA) Boss DS1 (9v 4mA) EHX Big Muff (9v 3mA) Boss TU-2 or TU-3 / Korg pitchblack (9v 55mA / 9v 20mA) (again, still need to decide/buy) any pointers from the more knowledgable would be massively appreciated