Anybody have the wax melt out of thier pickups?

PLAYSTEEL9 · Post by **PLAYSTEEL9** » 25 Sep 2002 1:39 pm

I have a new Guitar and the wax melted out of the pickup, started making a Buzzing scratching noise, and not picking up sound, this ever happen to anyone before?
wayne, in the hot country.

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jerry wallace · Post by **jerry wallace** » 25 Sep 2002 3:10 pm

Were you playing out doors in the hot sun?? If not, it sounds like you could have an amp or effects unit problem that put some volts/ current through your pickup coil and its not supposed to do that..The .002" or so wire used in the coil is not designed or supposed to take any current through it...The very small AC signal generated in the coil is supposed to go to your amp not the other way around..

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Jack Francis · Post by **Jack Francis** » 25 Sep 2002 7:22 pm

Maybe it was those HOT LICKS!!
(See you sat.)
Jack

Dave Birkett · Post by **Dave Birkett** » 25 Sep 2002 7:28 pm

Jerry, if that happened to you only 35 miles from Roswell, that would be pretty scary

jerry wallace · Post by **jerry wallace** » 26 Sep 2002 12:17 am

Dave,there are LOTS of strange things that happen here in Roswell , NM..

Whenever I need magnets for pickup building I just drive out to the "crash site" and hold some metal over the "spot"..Thats why the gauss of my pickup magnets is OUT OF THIS WORLD.

Also the "Crash" occured in July of 1947..I was born here in September 1947..Local folk lore has the incabation period for aliens to be 2 months

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Jerry Wallace-2001 Zum: D-10,8+6, "98 Zum: D-10,8+8,Nashville 1000,Session 500 ,Session 400 head only amp,Tubefex,ProfexII, Artesia, New Mexico
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CrowBear Schmitt · Post by **CrowBear Schmitt** » 26 Sep 2002 5:18 am

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Steel what?

Post by **Joey Ace** » 26 Sep 2002 6:35 am

"Also the "Crash" occured in July of 1947.."

The first Telecaster prototype appeared months later.

Bob I. Williams · Post by **Bob I. Williams** » 26 Sep 2002 8:03 am

You just discribed what happened to my ears. SEE YOU SAT IN A.J. BOB[This message was edited by Bob I. Williams on 26 September 2002 at 09:04 AM.]

PLAYSTEEL9 · Post by **PLAYSTEEL9** » 26 Sep 2002 3:10 pm

this has never happened to anybody but me??
the wax melted out of the pick up while in the case in our trailer.
help!!!!!!!!
wayne

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"Asleep at the steel"

Dennis Detweiler · Post by **Dennis Detweiler** » 26 Sep 2002 6:33 pm

Had the wax melt out of my ears from playing too loud

Dennis

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 26 Sep 2002 6:37 pm

I had it happen on a new Bill Lawrence pickup in the sun on a very hot day. Some sort of liquid oozed up around the pole pieces. It was wierd. I just changed pickups (it's a Sierra!) and kept playing.

I still use that pickup. No permanent damage - it sounds great.

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Ricky Davis · Post by **Ricky Davis** » 27 Sep 2002 12:02 am

Yes I had it happen. Texas can be hot too. Had my steel in the back of the Jeep....and it is just a wax covering on the bottom of the pickup and won't hurt anything if it melts...as it's just a added shielding...but yeah it's kinda wierd setting your steel up and seeing that stuff on your steel...you'd think a Bird did his thing flying over...ha.....

Ricky

Jim Bob Sedgwick · Post by **Jim Bob Sedgwick** » 27 Sep 2002 4:47 pm

I played a gig in Palm Springs one Summer, not in the sun, but the temperature was 112 degrees F. The enamel coating on my C-6th pickup melted and the pickup shorted out at 5000 ohms DCR. Started out as 20,000 ohms.
I talked to several guys about this and apparently this is not uncommon. It's the heat guys. I've heard if it gets hot enough, it'll melt the coating on your brain also.

BTW, one of my friends had his p/u short out in the same way, but it shorted out at the beginning of the coil, Voila: No Sound at All.[This message was edited by Jim Bob Sedgwick on 27 September 2002 at 05:48 PM.]