Work is NOT going well today, I’m supposed to be behind the bar in case anybody wants a drink and working on fixing broken gear between customers. I started out with a Marshall MG100 amp head which had been giving guitarists shit during concerts for weeks.

I had always known that it was a simple problem with the input of the amp but once I took it apart I had no idea how simple it really was, one of the three tiny reciever pins had been pushed out of the way just to regular old usage and time, you can see it in this photo (first pin on the left is a little higher than the other 2)

I first tried to push it down with a screwdriver but no matter how long and hard I did it for it would spring back up. (that’s what she said! XD) so I had to resort to some super high tech fix…
A RUBBER BAND!!

And you know what? It worked. None onto the real problem a broken Fender Champion 100 that had only broken recently. My coworker sent me a text saying that the input was the problem again but I could tell after testing it for only a minute it was a problem with the amplification unit. So it took it apart to see what the issue was and I could see that a small wire had disconnected, pictured here: (ignore my gross thumbnail btw)

So to start trying to fix this I did the stupidest thing imaginable, I got out the crappy soldering iron we keep in the utility room in the corner and strip the wire to reconnect it myself… smh… one thing I should say, I’m alright at soldering, I do the most of it at my work but this something else, it had to be so accurate and precise or I could permanently KILL the whole amp. And of course I get a bit over confident and make a horrible mess of it, molten metal was literally spilling into everywhere I didn’t want it to go and even landing on my jeans. I’m pretty sure I ruined this, my boss is NOT gonna be happy with me AT ALL…

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