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Topic: How to Test Trapezoid Pickkup/Also Need New Bobbin/Rebuild |
Lee Rider
From:
Fort Bragg, California, USA
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Posted 9 Dec 2012 6:57 pm |
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I have a Fender Custom triple neck guitar I just acquired. Only one pickup worked so I took her apart to see what was happening. Found that one of the bad pickups was not wired in and the other is missing the bobbin inside.
Question: I'd like to test the ones with the bobbins. Can anyone tell me how to do this and what values I should get. I tried to test continuity on the pickup leads but got noting on the meter.
Also: Need to get at least one of them rebuilt with new bobbin. Can anyone out there refer me to someone who can rebuild/rewind these pickups?
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 9 Dec 2012 7:20 pm
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I'm sending one of my Dual Pro pickups to Sentell Pickups for a re-wind. I need to get that guitar ready to sell it.
Jason Lollar is really busy these days, or I would send it there.
Maybe one of the pickup builders online could build you a new bobbin & wind it etc for you as well as re-wind one of the others. |
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Jim Rossen
From:
Iowa, USA
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Posted 9 Dec 2012 7:56 pm
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I just received a trap rewind from Aero that sounds great. Contact info is-
Larry J Pollack
Aero Instrument
Hilo, Hawai'i
808-969-6774 |
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 9 Dec 2012 9:19 pm
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| Good info there. Nice to hear that someone in Hawaii is doing pickups. |
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Jim Rossen
From:
Iowa, USA
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Posted 10 Dec 2012 6:16 am
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Shipping out there by USPS priority mail is reasonable.
RE multimeter testing- I believe that these pickups should have DC resistance of about 10K ohm. I could assess the pickups on my Dual Pro 8 without disasssembly by selecting the pickup and measuring resistance across the contacts of a connected guitar cord. Correct resistance does not necessarily mean good performance. The pickup Aero rewound recently had been rewound previously and had correct resistance but low sound output. |
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Howard Parker
From:
Maryland
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Posted 10 Dec 2012 6:26 am
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Lindy Fralin did mine. Sent him the entire pickup assembly. Very reasonable.
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Howard Parker
03\' Carter D-10
70\'s Dekley D-10
52\' Fender Custom
Many guitars by Paul Beard
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Lee Rider
From:
Fort Bragg, California, USA
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Posted 10 Dec 2012 9:58 pm
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| Thanks for the replies. Am talking to a couple of different rewinders. |
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