Changing tubes.
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Mate - its quite all right - honestly.
Glass is an excellent insulator.
FWIW - my credentials include registration as an electrician - I would never point anyone in the direction of electrical hazard.
Basically anything one-handed and you're pretty much as safe as you can be - just don't give anything live a return path - ie: do NOT hold on to the metal chassis at the same time - and don't stand barefoot in the drummers dribble...
I know something of which I speak - I have worked on 11,000V lines LIVE. I'm still here.
Glass is an excellent insulator.
FWIW - my credentials include registration as an electrician - I would never point anyone in the direction of electrical hazard.
Basically anything one-handed and you're pretty much as safe as you can be - just don't give anything live a return path - ie: do NOT hold on to the metal chassis at the same time - and don't stand barefoot in the drummers dribble...
I know something of which I speak - I have worked on 11,000V lines LIVE. I'm still here.
He hit a chord that rocked the spinet and disappeared into the infinite ...
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Of course what Rog did not tell you, Gregtar, is that sometimes, even with a hankie, the dead hot valve gets a bit of a thermic shock/stress and implodes - just one of his little jokes and I can tell you from experience you don't forget it!! Nice big leather welding-style glove is the best bet.
Suggest you can the number right then, turn off the amp, whip out the accoustic and ask the drummer to replace the valve while you do a solo number. Just ignore any screams/thuds behind you - drummers are such show-offs!
Suggest you can the number right then, turn off the amp, whip out the accoustic and ask the drummer to replace the valve while you do a solo number. Just ignore any screams/thuds behind you - drummers are such show-offs!
You can't do THAT on stage!
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B45, sounds like something drummer Bluebottle would volunteer to do in a Goon Show skit
'yes my captain I will change the naughty little bottle for you.......................aaarghh it blew off my hand and left nasty bits of glass in my bottom.............thinks,must send a letter to Jim Marshall and tell him about faulty Japanese tubes in amplifiers'.
'yes my captain I will change the naughty little bottle for you.......................aaarghh it blew off my hand and left nasty bits of glass in my bottom.............thinks,must send a letter to Jim Marshall and tell him about faulty Japanese tubes in amplifiers'.
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You rotten swines you!!
Even though I'm (a tad) younger than you the Goons were a huge thing for me growing up. They were playing the recordings on the radio, and my Dad taped every week as well - so I ended up listening to all of them a million times
Even though I'm (a tad) younger than you the Goons were a huge thing for me growing up. They were playing the recordings on the radio, and my Dad taped every week as well - so I ended up listening to all of them a million times
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LOL i still have some goon shows that i taped off the radio when i was a kid. And a coupla books of the scripts.
They discharge themselves over time, right? but how long? days? weeks?Rog wrote:Yes, the electros store a decent charge. I used to short them out with a screwdriver back in the day, although a better way is to connect a high value resistor across it and let it all bleed down first.
this one's special, this is the ultimate, after this i'll never need another amp, EVER...
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