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Regal Lap Steel
Flamed Maple Veneer Deco
Great Depression - WWII era
Page 18;
12-13-10;
Cleaning up wire leads and solder points:
Volume pot before it's lugs are desoldered and cleaned up:
Into the soldering tree for easy and stable access:
Desolder the 2 open lugs and dress them with a fine diamond file:
Filing paint off the inside of the pot shaft mounting holes helping to ensure good ground:
Pot mounting washers like to have a nice fresh metal surface. Here's before dressing:
Here's after a sanding & emorying dressing:
The volume pot casing ground joint solder puddle didn't look adequate for a new fresh solder joint, so I refreshed it with a drop of hot solder.
My trusty pocket compass inspects the magnetic flux lines around the pickup blades to make sure their residual magnetic charge polarity is marked & oriented correctly to the polarity arrangment for the magnets installation.
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