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Topic: Keith Hilton, help with adjustment please |
Terry Sneed
From:
Arkansas,
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Posted 8 Feb 2012 8:53 pm |
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Keith, I tried to adjust the tone control, the #3 hole on my Hilton pedal. It says it should be all the way clockwise, so I tried turning it all the way, but get a click every full turn or so. I think I may have it out of wack a little. It don't sound bad, I'd just like to get it back to where it's suppose to be. Can you help me? Thanks
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Carl Kilmer
From:
East Central, Illinois
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Posted 9 Feb 2012 7:01 am
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Terry, none of pots have a full turn. They have a stop
on both left and right sides. If you get a click on
either side you're going to destroy the pot or worse.
Just turn it very lightly to the right until you feel
it stop. That is max volume. Then turn it to the left
if you want to lower it a bit. It has a stop on both
left and right. Total travel is about 3/4 of a turn.
I like mine about 1/4 of the way left of the full volume.
Hope this helps.
Carl
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Keith Hilton
From:
248 Laurel Road Ozark, Missouri 65721
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Posted 9 Feb 2012 8:36 am
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| Terry, Carl is correct. If one of these adjustments does turn in a full circle, this means someone has forced the adjustment past the stop point. This ruins the adjustment and will cause the pedal to not operate correctly. In some cases the pedal will not work at all. The only solution is to replace the adjustment. I have around 18,000 pedals out in use world wide, and less than 100 adjustments have been broken in the last 15 years. This tells me the adjustments are pretty durable. |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 9 Feb 2012 10:13 am
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Someone tried to Nigel Tufnel your adjustment; either you or a previous owner. Turning a knob to 11 is hard on knobs not meant to do that.
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 9 Feb 2012 11:32 am
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| this is a perfect opportunity for keith to send out a free replacement part in the name of 'great customer service'! |
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Terry Sneed
From:
Arkansas,
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Posted 9 Feb 2012 1:55 pm Pedal
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Keith, I reckon I turned it to far then. The pedal still works fine as of now, so I reckon I'll just leave it be. Thanks
terry |
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Keith Hilton
From:
248 Laurel Road Ozark, Missouri 65721
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Posted 9 Feb 2012 2:55 pm
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| Chris, I try and help people all I can. I learned something interesting a few years ago when I was in some electronic classes at the college. The teacher ask the class how many could solder. Everyone said they could solder, and many of them bragged at how expert they were at soldering. It was not long until I discovered I was the only guy in the class that knew anything about soldering. Several even burned holes in their breadboards. Occasionally I have people who want me to send them a part to fix their pedal. When that happens, I can not help but remember how many of the people in electronics class in college burned up circuit boards soldering. |
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Chris Reesor
From:
British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 9 Feb 2012 3:11 pm changing trimpot.....
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Keith, I hear you. And those folks who burned up their breadboards probably had the proper low watt pencil iron and rosin core 60/40 solder as well.
(Visions of someone trying to work on a PCB with a 140 watt soldering gun and acid core solder go through my head here...  )
CR.
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Terry Sneed
From:
Arkansas,
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Posted 9 Feb 2012 5:04 pm solderin
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Well, I'm not an expert at solderin, and would never tell anyone I was. But, I have soldered in pickups, and neck selector switch. If my pedal starts soundin really bad, I reckon I can just send it back to Keith for fixin. After all, I was the one that done the turnin. 
terry |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 10 Feb 2012 3:16 am
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I'm an ex amp tech.
When I got out of the Air Force in 1963, I worked for a Motorola 2-way radio dealer who had a contract with Motorola to electronically refurbish used equipment (like the radios in Police Cars, Fire, etc). We saw a lot of hacked equipment due to repairs by "techs" that couldn't solder.
I worked for a short while, while waiting on a passport to go to an overseas Apollo tracking station, at a NASA PC Board repair facility in Maryland. The same way with PC boards from the tracking stations that had been "repaired" by techs at the tracking stations. Burned up traces, wrong components, poor solder joints, etc. |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 10 Feb 2012 9:15 am
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keith..i hear you. just being my normal funny helpful self 
i had a couple years of fun soldering circuit boards for a friend who was contracted for new fire/police communications systems. it's fun with the right set-up and tools. |
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