From hammondman85@gmail.com Mon May 08 19:42:17 2006
Subject:Pro-145 trimpots

I received my new trimpots today and was able to solder it on. I just
want to advise future buyers of this product. Be very careful with this
trimpots. It doesn't take much force to bend the contacts or break the
little blue knob off. If you do, plan on taking a few hours out of your
day. You have to disassemble all of the upper rotor assembly to gain
access to the front panel, then you have to take the screws off the
front panel itself (located under the upper rotor wooden board. Then you
have to take the 3 screws off the circuit board. No you're not done yet.
Disconnect the light gray jumper cable from the middle of the circuit
board and there's a wire on the far right that must be removed. Lastly,
unscrew the tube holder. After all that, you can finally take out the
front panel. Next you must pull off all the front panel knobs (which are
glued on so it'll require some force). Then carefully remove the
shielding around the tube. After that you should be able to pull off the
circuit board where the trimpots are located. And lastly, unsolder the
damaged trimpot and solder on the new one. Then reassemble in reverse
order. I'm sure you can tell by now I enjoyed every minute of this, all
for one freakin trimpot. And it gets even better. I can't adjust it to
the way I like it anymore. I had the lower rotor deceleration set to
take about 45 seconds to ramp down to a complete stop. Now I can't get
it to take any longer than about 14 seconds. I've contacted John (again)
to see if there's anything I can do about that. There probably isn't
aside from taking everything out again. Anyway, that's how my night as
been, lol. Take care.

Ryan