Woodinblack Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 3 hours ago, Ray said: The solder didn’t melt. The heat caused ‘dry’ joints. Apparently this is quite common in Fender valve amps - the heat from the valves can make the solder joints dry. Maybe it’s down to poor quality solder and/or solder joints from Fender 🤷♂️ Dry joints are a defect of manufacturing and occur within the cooling time of the solder, they can't be made afterwards due to heat. A dry joint can function and then fail later on for many reasons, heat / vibration / general stress, etc, but that would be just a side effect of an always defective connection. So in a way, its lucky it failed now due to the heat and not on a stage! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Posted August 18, 2022 Author Share Posted August 18, 2022 9 minutes ago, Woodinblack said: Dry joints are a defect of manufacturing and occur within the cooling time of the solder, they can't be made afterwards due to heat. A dry joint can function and then fail later on for many reasons, heat / vibration / general stress, etc, but that would be just a side effect of an always defective connection. So in a way, its lucky it failed now due to the heat and not on a stage! Ah, okay. So the solder joints must’ve been dry all along and the heat made them fail. Gotcha! 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorks5stringer Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 On 18/08/2022 at 13:07, Ray said: The solder didn’t melt. The heat caused ‘dry’ joints. Apparently this is quite common in Fender valve amps - the heat from the valves can make the solder joints dry. Maybe it’s down to poor quality solder and/or solder joints from Fender 🤷♂️ Confused now, was it your valve amp that had dry joints because that is 1 million times more likely than both basses having them due to the heat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 38 minutes ago, yorks5stringer said: Confused now, was it your valve amp that had dry joints because that is 1 million times more likely than both basses having them due to the heat? He said another bass worked, and the two P basses didn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Posted August 20, 2022 Author Share Posted August 20, 2022 2 hours ago, yorks5stringer said: Confused now, was it your valve amp that had dry joints because that is 1 million times more likely than both basses having them due to the heat? No, it was my basses, as unlikely as it seems! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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