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Re: Pickup parts questions

3/29/2006 11:53 AM
Zhangliqun	Re: Pickup parts questions "Did you follow StewMac's instruction for charging their alnico rods?" I used their neodymium boride disk mags in a vice with opposite poles facing each other. "You most likely just didn't get a good charge on them." I sure didn't. And it wasn't due to holding the pickup in the magnetic field for too short a time either. (And no, for those wondering, I didn't hold the pickup sideways.)

3/29/2006 11:53 AM

Zhangliqun

Re: Pickup parts questions

"Did you follow StewMac's instruction for charging their alnico rods?"

I used their neodymium boride disk mags in a vice with opposite poles facing each other.

"You most likely just didn't get a good charge on them."

I sure didn't. And it wasn't due to holding the pickup in the magnetic field for too short a time either. (And no, for those wondering, I didn't hold the pickup sideways.)

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David Schwab [QUOTE]And it wasn't due to holding... -- 3/29/2006 12:07 PM