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Agreed, but, it is sometimes possible, especially if you try to source high quality stuff from small producers, or manufacturers, or businesses.
It's hard to tell from the photos how the metal piece is held on but it doesn't look like it's soldered. Are there any clips that hold it in place?This is the part: View attachment 2320347
When it fell off, the little silver thing (which seems to have the electrical connections to make the knob work) also fell off. The thing is, that knob is meant to be taken off to upgrade the firmware on the amp (as a small USB port is underneath. The thing that's NOT supposed to be taken off is the metal piece.
This is how the back looks now without the knob: View attachment 2320351
Much warmer today. Rain and no frost or snow. Hoping that continues overnight and across the South where I’m going to meet my Dad. It would be a shame to have to cancel and not see him until next year.
Again, I shall simply reiterate my earlier advice and (strong) recommendation that you should have someone qualified (difficult at week-ends, I know) take a look at that with a view to repairing it.This is the part: View attachment 2320347
When it fell off, the little silver thing (which seems to have the electrical connections to make the knob work) also fell off. The thing is, that knob is meant to be taken off to upgrade the firmware on the amp (as a small USB port is underneath. The thing that's NOT supposed to be taken off is the metal piece.
This is how the back looks now without the knob: View attachment 2320351
Freezing fog here late last night, and earlier this morning (ugh).
But, somewhat warmer now.
Absolutely.
Safe travels and have a good day.
Very much so.
This is the part: View attachment 2320347
When it fell off, the little silver thing (which seems to have the electrical connections to make the knob work) also fell off. The thing is, that knob is meant to be taken off to upgrade the firmware on the amp (as a small USB port is underneath. The thing that's NOT supposed to be taken off is the metal piece.
This is how the back looks now without the knob: View attachment 2320351
That doesn't look good at all.
It looks like the metal piece that came off and the light green element in the photo are (or were) a single component which has come apart....ugh
Maybe the two pieces snapped together?
I see that the metal piece has 4 holes that look to align with 4 little pegs on the light green piece.
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I'll take it in next week. Meanwhile, I just need to figure out who I'm gonna borrow a speaker from while mine is getting fixed.
There are clips I think. That's why I thought I might be able to fix it myself.
Good.
This is something that needs to be carried out by a qualified, competent, and trained professional.
Best of luck with that.
See what I have written above.
More to the point, this is too important to your studies and career to get wrong, and your attempts at repair could yet end up making things worse if your do not fully know what you are doing while attempting to carry out a repair.
I agree.
Judging by the contacts remaining on the circuit board, and the pattern of what appears to be metal on the disconnected knob, it looks like a type of rotary encoder known as a "quadrature encoder".
Rotary encoder - Wikipedia
Incremental encoder - Wikipedia
I don't see anything that looks like clips to hold things together, so my guess is that it's definitely broken.
I do see a socket on the green circuit board, above where it's been circled in red. I strongly suspect that "removing the knob" should involve a set-screw in the knob that holds it on the shaft, but the shaft is supposed to remain in place. Removing just the knob would expose that socket (jack), which may be USB-C or similar, for updating.
I noticed some time ago that there was little relationship between the price you paid for a type of car and its longevity.
I used to see lots of old Mercedes, but no old BMWs, and lots of old Toyotas but no old Mitsubishis.
Although, that has changed recently due to vehicle registration law changes. Here in Aus. the registration of old vehicles is discouraged because many of them don't/can't comply with current air pollution rules.
The issue won't be replacing it, but trying to solder it back in.
Which simply serves to confirm that this is a job for a qualified professional.
Tomorrow, I'm taking it to the same place that repaired my old keyboard. Have to play a gig with it tonight, but all my other gigs this week don't require an amp (they're with real, acoustic pianos, yay!) I'll see how long they estimate they'll take for the repair, then I might (or might not) need to borrow one from someone else.
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Other than the amp, I'm in the process of finalizing a proposal for a music class next summer, so we'll see where that goes! Hope to get some more teaching experience besides the mid-school group I already help out with.
Very good.
That should give you peace of mind, and a repaired keyboard by someone qualified.
Good to learn that apart from this evening, you will not need it for the rest of the week, thus, hopefully, it will have been repaired by then, and, if not, surely you will be able to borrow something until it is repaired.
An excellent idea.
Teaching is great experience, not just for the future, but for clarifying stuff in your own mind, and it gives one confidence, plus, meeting (and mentoring) enthusiasts is not just great fun, but a privilege, too.
My Dad is on my mind after our meet up earlier. He’s definitely less steady on his feet than he used to be. Still it was nice to see him.
Hope that the day went well for you both, and that you enjoyed yourselves.
Glad to see that you have returned safely - the weather is deeply unpleasant (and I'm not sure how safe roads are) just now.
What a weird gig I just had. I mean, it was tons of fun, but two things happened:
- Sax player bailed on me 15 minutes before it started, so I did the whole thing solo
- Which meant that I (mostly successfully) sight-read all the melodies to the songs
- I ran out of set material after about an hour, so I pulled stuff from my own list, but all the tunes off of my list ended up just becoming a blues, which I played for about a half hour, while the remainder of the gig was spent playing really short renditions of standards.
One of the things I admire about musicians is how many of you can pull of improvisation.
Received my Kindle this morning, I will test it as a reading device this evening.
However, there's something that I've already learned, epubs that are in the Books app, when exported (drag and drop) from the app, or when taken from the iCloud subfolder won't work with the Kindle, there's no way to make them work, I've tried USB, Send to Kindle, e-mail, there will always be an error message (Kindle offline when using Send to Kindle website, excessive number of files when using e-mail and outright not showing up on the Kindle when using USB).
Original, "untouched" epub files, even those obtained in less conventional ways, work flawlessly.
However, there's something that I've already learned, epubs that are in the Books app, when exported (drag and drop) from the app, or when taken from the iCloud subfolder won't work with the Kindle, there's no way to make them work, I've tried USB, Send to Kindle, e-mail, there will always be an error message (Kindle offline when using Send to Kindle website, excessive number of files when using e-mail and outright not showing up on the Kindle when using USB).
Original, "untouched" epub files, even those obtained in less conventional ways, work flawlessly.
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