What's Spinning Tonight?

What is it that you are spinning tonight?

 

Christmas songs! To acknowledge the 19" of snow we got today (and it's still coming, and a great big rural county snowplow just slid off the road into the ditch on our lot, bad news...)

 

Nothing

System's down

Damn.

Just when it was really starting to purr

 

Nothing

System's down

Damn.

Just when it was really starting to purr

What happened?

 

What happened?

Well my GF decided on her day off to clean the apt and started to clean up my audio stuff. She managed to step on both ICs going into the amps breaking off both male pins into the female connector. And no way to get the piece out so am going to have to order two new male connectors and solder them in. So it looks like the system will be down for a week. Just when Doshi/ZYX combo was starting to sing with the Tele ECC81s (maybe some 801S are in the cards).

 

Are the females in the chassis hollow from the rear? Y not open the covers & poke Pipe cleaners or tooth picks from the inside out?

 

Are the females in the chassis hollow from the rear? Y not open the covers & poke Pipe cleaners or tooth picks from the inside out?

Good suggestion but the back of these connectors are essentially sealed and can't do as you suggested. Mark suggested trying to drill it out but upon further investigation, would just damage the hole and teflon inside the connector eg. the male end is too small to really remove. It sucked that it broke off flush and can't use needlenose pliers. I even tried supergluing something to the pin hoping to pull it out but that didn't work either

 

Good suggestion but the back of these connectors are essentially sealed and can't do as you suggested. Mark suggested trying to drill it out but upon further investigation, would just damage the hole and teflon inside the connector eg. the male end is too small to really remove. It sucked that it broke off flush and can't use needlenose pliers. I even tried supergluing something to the pin hoping to pull it out but that didn't work either

What a drag, sorry to hear it

 

Life could be audiophilically destructive sometimes.

Indeed life's a bitch! :b

 

Life could be audiophilically destructive sometimes.

Indeed life's a bitch! :b

Thanks guys. Thanks also to friends with systems who can help with the Jonesing

 

Bummer Myles...she probably feels worse than you...well maybe almost as bad.

 

Bummer Myles...she probably feels worse than you...well maybe almost as bad.

Yes she does

 

I still want to see a picture of the broken connectors! I can't believe there isn't a way to get the broken connectors out.

 

Can you take a needle and bend the end into a tiny hook? You might be able to retract the post by pushing the needle through the center (I assume the pin is hollow on the male connector...) and hooking the end inside to pull it out.

Lee

 

Beginnings - Allman Bros Band
Trailer Park - Beth Orton
Strange Times - Moody Blues

 

Tonight this one:

Look at that art work!! CD's today just don't hold a candle on this type of presentation, IMHO

 

Beginnings - Allman Bros Band

I mentioned this album as containing one of the great moments in music for me: the segue from Don't Want You No More into It's Not My Cross To Bear never fails to give me goosebumps. Great one.

Lee

 

Real Good Blues on the r.a.d.i.o. :b

 

Tonight this one:

Look at that art work!! CD's today just don't hold a candle on this type of presentation, IMHO

Not to mention the Soria series had unbelievable inserts too. The artwork had to cost a fortune!

 

Can you take a needle and bend the end into a tiny hook? You might be able to retract the post by pushing the needle through the center (I assume the pin is hollow on the male connector...) and hooking the end inside to pull it out.

Lee

Good thought but the center pin isn't really hollow. I tried pushing something into it with superglue to pull it out. Didn't work

 

Good thought but the center pin isn't really hollow. I tried pushing something into it with superglue to pull it out. Didn't work

Too bad... How about cooling the connector down so that they both contract a tiny bit? Might produce just a touch of play....

Lee