How in the Blazed do you Fix THIS???

Patrick Ickes · Post by **Patrick Ickes** » 26 Oct 2000 4:27 pm

Steve,
Quit wasting your time with these amateurs. Get a drill bit, fractional, number, or letter size, that is just smaller diameter than the hole. Use a pin vise or low speed drill motor and bore it out. As soon as the cutting lip of the bit bites into the cable, pull it out.
VIOLA!!!!!!!!!!
Email me for the address to ship that sucker.
Also, if you have any extra fishing flies, Royal Coachman or Helgramites are best, send them along too. A little more rain here and our creek starts running with big Rainbows.

Good luck,
Pat

Bob Mainwaring · Post by **Bob Mainwaring** » 26 Oct 2000 5:44 pm

WOW!!!!!!!! --------

All this -- and it`s only Thursday evening!!!

Bob Mainwaring Z.Bs. and other weird things.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 26 Oct 2000 6:05 pm

Steve, Steve, Steve... My man, my man. When is it your birthday, my man? All this fussin' about #10 and #6 and flies and worms, why it's just... unbecoming, yes, that's what it is. Unbecoming. Please, Steve, go sit down. Tell me when is it your birthday, and I will send a pretty, shiny new plug for you to keep. Everything will be just fine, you mark my words. Everything will be just fine, now you just go sit down over there...

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Steve Feldman · Post by **Steve Feldman** » 26 Oct 2000 8:33 pm

Well, Heck Jim - That's awfully considerate of you. The information you requested can be found here:

http://www.rahul.net/thinker/forumbirthdays.html

Should I send you a reminder a week or so prior?

And in other news.....WE HAVE A WINNER! (sorry Jon, no weiner...): Bob Mainwaring wins the plug. I didn't really fish it out (get it?) as he suggested, but I guess it loosened it up enough that with repeated banging on a wood block, the obstruction came out. No shotgun necessary. OK Bob, send me your address and I'll get your prize right out to you.

Honorable mention goes to Patrick Ickes who suggested that I ream it out....hmmm.

Thanks for all the interesting answers. I will dutifully contact you all next time I break something.

Bob Mainwaring · Post by **Bob Mainwaring** » 26 Oct 2000 10:55 pm

Hey there Steve,.......... what can I say my good man???

In all honesty - this is the very first thing I`ve ever won!!! What shall I do with it, any ideas?? I`m "all of a dither" with the shakes of great expectation that you`ll actually send me something other than money!!.................................Me..... that was brought up so poor that even during rain storms - our rainbows were in black and white!!!
But all this kidding around aside - I only use the solderless type of Jacks, and have never ever had any of those type of problems that the soldered type have from time to time.
My address will be with you by "e-by-gum-mail" straight after this.

Bob Mainwaring. Z.Bs. and other weird things.

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Steve Feldman · Post by **Steve Feldman** » 27 Oct 2000 8:06 am

Bob and his lovely wife (or S.O.) Lorraine have graciously asked me to donate the plug to my favorite charity. Now, less'see, what's that old saying about where charity begins?......

Thanks guys.

Bill Crook · Post by **Bill Crook** » 27 Oct 2000 11:25 am

Get a drill bit, fractional, number, or letter size, that is just smaller diameter than the hole and bore it out.

Bad idea here folks.....

due to the physical makeup of the plug, you will destroy the center pin connection long before you remove any particules from the barrel. The center pin connection to the cable is made by a very sharp needle-like pin pertrudeing outward to mate up aganist the inner-wire of George'L cables when pressed into the plug. The little set-screw that holds the cable in the plug is a special kind of set-screw and MUST not be substituded. If you look closely at it, you will notice that it has a serreted bottom on it. This is so that it will bit thru the covering and into the shield part of the cable and complete the signal path along with secureing the cable in the plug. Do not attempt to use a regular set-screw for this. it will only flatten and short out the cable.

Steve Feldman · Post by **Steve Feldman** » 27 Oct 2000 11:39 am

Thanks for the info, Bill. I opted not to drill the thing out because of the center pin damage. However, in this case, we're talking about the right angle plug, which doesn't have the same kind of set screw that you're talking about.

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 27 Oct 2000 6:32 pm

Well, now that that's over, we can get back to important stuff like push/pull vs all-pull or, more importantly, ET vs JI tuning techniques.

Lee, from South Texas

Patrick Ickes · Post by **Patrick Ickes** » 27 Oct 2000 7:02 pm

Thanks for clarification that it is an angled jack pin Steve. I was afraid Bill had made me look like an Idiot and would have you ruin it.

Pat

Steve Feldman · Post by **Steve Feldman** » 28 Oct 2000 10:59 am

Nah! Actually, had there been no pin in there, that would have been the way to go. Sorry I didn't think of that myself (fish hooks...Sheesh!).

Joe Delaronde · Post by **Joe Delaronde** » 29 Oct 2000 10:36 pm

Steve.......Did you get it out?????....Joe

Bob Mainwaring · Post by **Bob Mainwaring** » 29 Oct 2000 11:36 pm

How long did it take to get it out???

Bob Mainwaring · Post by **Bob Mainwaring** » 29 Oct 2000 11:39 pm

P.S. You can "re" - bend the hook back to the original "curved" shape!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that`s if you were lucky enough to remember to have taken a detailed drawing of the radious!

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Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 31 Oct 2000 12:20 am

Steve, I'm with Jim Cohen here, I really think you need some help!

Steve Feldman · Post by **Steve Feldman** » 31 Oct 2000 7:01 am

You're with Jim Cohen and I'M one who needs help? What'd you have in mind??[This message was edited by Steve Feldman on 31 October 2000 at 07:02 AM.]

Bill Crook · Post by **Bill Crook** » 2 Nov 2000 10:18 am

Patrick.....

. I was afraid Bill had made me look like ..........and would have you ruin it.

I appolize to you, My intent here was NOT to make anyone look bad, but to only keep someone from making a mistake and them angled plugs are sorta expensive too. They, like the stright plugs, have the same center pin setup which can be damaged by drilling into it. I agree with the fishhook method, A scratch or two won't hurt it but if the point is blunted, it's trashed.

Patrick Ickes · Post by **Patrick Ickes** » 2 Nov 2000 6:06 pm

Hey Bill,
No worries. I was just having fun with the whole topic.
Thanks,
Pat

Bob Mainwaring · Post by **Bob Mainwaring** » 2 Nov 2000 9:32 pm

Hey guys--------------------------------------This is serious business!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bob Mainwaring. Z.Bs. and other weird things.

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Bob Mainwaring · Post by **Bob Mainwaring** » 2 Nov 2000 9:35 pm

This "is" SERIOUS BUSINESS!!!!!!!
Bob Mainwaring Z.Bs. and other weird things.

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