CV Tone Generator

[Guest]

I'm going to recap my CV. Yeah, yeah, I know what a lot of people are going to say, but my mind is already made up, plus im ordering the matched kit from Goff. Either way, just getting to the generator is an issue. I've unbolted the manuals and tilted them to get to it, but thats not going to give me enough room to solder.</p>

 It did, however, give me a good view of the nest a mouse had made out of my dust cover.</p>

[fredy2]

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A better plan would be to use a capacitor checker to check each cap. Lift one lead and test if they are within tolerance.</P>


Some new caps have characteristics that are not suited as replacements. If you get a kit that is safer than finding your own. I would save the old ones as a backup.</P>


If yours already has the styrene type, you are wasting your time and money. If they are the wax paper type, then it is worth doing.</P>

[toasterDude]

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I've unbolted the manuals and tilted them to get to it, but thats not going to give me enough room to solder.</P>


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Are you sure you raised them as high as they'll go? I've worked on a couple CVs, replacing bad TG caps, and I seemed to have ample room. Here's a pic of how high they'll go - I think they can actually even go a little higher:</P>


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You can see the whole TG is accessible here. As I recall you have to remove the "music desk" and pull all the drawbars out to 8, to get the full range. Then you just have to put some a&amp;s in it - those manuals are HEAVY! --One of the reasons why I always scratch my head over chop jobs - most of the weight is in the manuals, so a chop doesn't really end up that much lighter. Anyway good luck-</P>


TD</P>


PS don't you hate mice? I hope they didn't chew up any of your wiring!</P>

[Guest]

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I'll try that, but it seems like the board running down the front of the cabinet isnt strong enough to support it the way you have it braced. I dunno. </p>

But god how did the mouse get in there?! CV's had a full back, and I was the first to take this one's off in 30 years! </p>

[Dave S.]

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A small mouse can indeed squeeze into the pedal wiring conduit from underneath the pedal escutcheon and work his way up into the console. Just hope there's no dead ones stuck in that pipe, messy. Or, if it's an older CV that has the preparation for a chorus generator option, the shelf will be drilled for it, but have about eight plugs in the prep'd holes. All it takes is for one of those plugs to fall out! As far as raising the manuals, sometimes one has to lift, then carefully slide them forward a bit to get enough room to lift the rest of the way, but be really careful of stressing the manual harness, the wires coming from the matching xformer, and the vibrato scanner. I've always used two chunks of 2x4 that, coincidentally, are the exact same length as the cheekblocks, set upright directly underneath them once raised. It's a lot safer that way, and there's nothing to bang into while you're working.