Cleaning and polishing: step-by-step pictorial

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Cool 8)
If Mozart were with us today, he'd play a Fireglo 4001C64! ~~~*~~~ Beethoven, on the other hand, would play a Matte Jetglo 4001C64S!
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Three months later. I wonder what happened.
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Spike- wrote:... I wonder what happened.
+1 :)
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Yep... Dave's last post was August 5. Sorta left us hanging there in the middle of disassembly, huh?

Dave, buddy..you OK??? :?: :?: :?
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Probably ended up with a big pile of parts and didn't know how to put 'em all back together...
:lol: :lol: :lol:


Well, I hope that's not really the case and all is well...
I have NO idea what to do with those skinny stringed things... I'm just a bass player...
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BTW, the only way to remove the output jack nuts without dicking them up is with a very thin-walled socket...take a "normal" socket, and grind a taper on the outermost 1/4". Mine has lasted almost 6 years so far...
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jingle_jangle wrote:BTW, the only way to remove the output jack nuts without dicking them up is with a very thin-walled socket...take a "normal" socket, and grind a taper on the outermost 1/4". Mine has lasted almost 6 years so far...
Not as bad as trying to get the nut off of a Strat jack...
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Really cool thread... but seriously.. its like waiting the whole off season to find out who shot JR!

Dave??.. Daves not here man...
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doctorwho wrote:
Spike- wrote:... I wonder what happened.
+1 :)

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