rwillett

Learnt my lesson. I'll keep an eye on their domain name and if they forget to renew even for a few hours, that might be unfortunate. I'll break the unit open and if nothing else I'll have a 12" speaker and tweeter to play with. It might be an easy fix, but suspect its junk. Of course if somebody has a broken case and a working set of internal bits, that could be useful Rob

Oddly enough John Pye auctions have just come back and as expected have washed their hands of the situation. Distance selling regs do not apply, so I'll be in touch with their local trading standards for selling dangerous goods. Doubt anything will come of it but if nothing more I can make a fuss. If anybody has any other suggestions that might make their life legally difficult please pipe up. Lesson learnt never to use them again Rob

I've not opened it yet. I'm still awaiting the response from the auction house. I did ring up an authorised Headrush repair company in Leeds and it's £90 just to look at it plus whatever is needed to fix it plus me dropping it off (or sending to and fro via courier). If a new amp section is needed then I can easily see that being £100 and that plus £90 plus £20 x 2 for delivery moves this to circa £220 for repair which makes it not cost effective. So if I get no joy from the auction house, then I'll open it up and have a look. My money is on the transformer burning out but what do I know Lets see what the auction house says. It makes no mention of the fact it doesn't bloody well work and tripped my fuseboard. Thankfully it caused no other damage. I'm not hopeful and am expecting to write it off. Thanks for the suggestions.. Rob

I go into the office every few weeks or so, I've teams in Sheffield, Manchester and Croydon so regardless of where I work, I'm usually on a Teams call as somebody isn't in the location I'm in. We have a lot of older kit and I know full well there's cupboards full of older stuff like Surface Pro PSU's, It's just a case of finding them. I like old Thinkpads, I was at IBM for 15 years and they made great laptops, Even when they flogged it to Lenovo, they were still good laptops. The cases were thicker and made of better plastic. Not as stylish as the Dell's but a lot more robust. When we were out on site, we'd see Dell's and other laptops with duct tape holding things together like compartment lids, never had that with an old Thinkpad. Easy to change the keyboard over as well. The only downside was their love of DisplayPort over HDMI, they would not drop DP in favour of HDMI for far too long. Anyway, I have put the word out and am asking around for a PSU. Rob

Thats exactly why I had it. Let me ask around... Some people have spares as they moved to HP, some silly sods staying on the surface pro. Rob

Apologies, but I gave it away on Friday to a bloke in Chester. Now these things are two a penny where I work. Let me check to see if there are any more lying around. They are classed as accessories and so aren't actually tracked even if they cost £250 (which the big version does cost). Rob

I took a punt on a not-well-known auction site and got a Headrush FR112. Not eBay to be clear. I got it cheap for £84 but it turns out that it doesn't work. It came with a blown 6.3A fuse and putting in another 6.3A fuse gave me a matched pair of blown fuses. Not quite as a nice as a matched pair of EL84 valves but still glassware I'm in discussions with the auction site but assuming that I don't get my money back, caveat emptor etc etc, any recommendations for somebody in NW England who can look at these things and repair them. The Headrush site shows somebody in Leeds and also somebody in Castleford. Both are a fair old schlep. If I don't get my money back, I suspect I'll be making them into a home made cabinet. Any sensible suggestions welcomed. Rob

I would assume as a responsible basschatter, the OP would either carry a spare few 50p pieces for the meter or their own generator.

In which case I'm a complete wimp. I recall it being a lot heavier

Ah so the word "manageable" actually means "somebody else manages it" 🤣 it was very heavy as I recall 35+kg? It sounded great though. I'd love to do a blind test with that and a decent Class D amp. You may already have done this...

Is that the head you brought to the NW Bass Bash last year? If so, we clearly we have a different opinion on the word "manageable"...

I knew about the resistor as @neepheid had already commented on it in another forum. That's why I brought a spare one I'll update people when the Goldwoods turn up. Rob

I've two of the 4 Ohm 20W resistors. One is a spare and I've tested the one in-situ. A kind basschatter has sent me a few Goldwood GT-1016's to use. Once they arrive I'll test and see how they work and compare and contrast. Slowly getting there. Rob

Made significant progress in the last two days. The bridge is now ready, the neck is ready and the neck fits and by some mathematical miracle. the bridge is the right length from the 12th fret. Wonders will never cease. This is just to check for fitting and access. So the white panels are where the three way switch and the V/V/T/T pots and 1/4" socket will fit. They are in white so I could see if I liked the colour scheme. The body of the guitar is partly filled and finished, I'm testing it as I go along. Its kinda Rickenbacker six string (ish) on a bad day. Lots to do but it's getting there. I've also done the drill guide. This is used to put all the aluminium bits together. The two bits of aluminium will fit in the above guide and positions all the holes. Some are 5.25mm, some are 2.5mm and some are 3.5mm. I do not trust myself to remember the order.

Since the tweeters are from around 4khz (from memory) surely there should be more sound and volume. I'll record it tomorrow to show the volume difference

Definitely low volume. When connected to the main speaker, significantly larger volume.

Happy to post it for you to try it out.

After a lot of stroking of the chin, I decided to try and test the tweeters using: A 9V battery A small amplifier Battery test I disconnected the tweeter input legs from the chock blocs and put a 9V across them. I could hear a distinct click as I put power on them. Nothing more. I am assuming that indicates they are probably working. Small amplifier I <ahem> borrowed my daughters little amp, looks like this. Then realised I had nothing that that had a phone input to drive the amplifier. So I 'borrowed' my youngest daughters rather elderly iPad which actually has a headphone socket on it. My iPhone and iPad doesn't have a headphone out. Connected a set of speaker wires to one side, plugged the iPad in and then realised my youngest is a massive Taylor Swift fan and that was all she had. <sigh> I disconnected the Eminence speaker and connected the wires so it went to all of the four tweeter array. I could hear Taylor Swift. However the music sounded very tinny, quite poor quality and very quiet. That is not a passive-aggressive comment on Taylor Swift. I'm not sure what it should sound like through four tweeters. I would have thought better than this though. I then connected the Eminence speaker up and tried again and it sounded fine. So I'm still unsure if I have a tweeter problem or not. Just the tweeters sounded rubbish to me. I have no idea if the tweeters would sound reasonable, it sounded like a 1950's 1" speaker in a crap transistor radio. Any comments welcomed. Thanks Rob

I'm not 100% physically. The infection took a lot out of me but I;m slowly building strength back up. It'll be a few more weeks before I'm 100% physically. Thanks Rob

It's been a few weeks since I started this. Sadly I was hospitalised after a nose op went wrong and I enjoyed the hospitality of Bradford Royal Infirmary for a while. This has not been forgotten though. The design has now been finalised and printed up. Here's some earlier designs. This was rejected as I wanted the control panel area to be a panel to and bottom. This is the latest design, with all four pieces glued in. The frame is very stiff and the glue is as strong as the filament so twisting it to breaking point could be anywhere on the frame, not at the joints. The next steps are lightly sanding down the rough areas. This is printed at 0.2mm height and the fastest speed the Prusa can do. I have sacrificed a little quality for speed, but as the frame will be sanded, filled, sanded, covered,sanded primed, sanded, painted, lightly sanded and then finally multiple coats of a finish, the reduction in quality will not make any difference. I know this because I've tested it. I am aiming to have zero printing lines visible so its indistinguishable from any other type of non FDM finish. It does have the tummy cut at the top but I'll show that later. I'm also trying to do the same design for a bass as well Thanks Rob

That's what worries me....

It's a bit bad when I'm considered the normal, sane one...

Via North Yorkshire....

What! Have you discussed this with the powers that be? I'm fairly certain that the laws of physics still hold true where I live regarding space and time. Rob