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To be honest, I didn't need another guitar...
  • Yes, that shouldn’t be too bad.

    I went nuts and did humbucker coil splits, out of phase and serial (on an HH with 2 vols & 2 tones). The coil split doesn’t really sound all that much like single coil to me. Just a bit quieter. The series switching sounds good (fuller, brighter?) If you use crocodile clips, or temporary connectors (e.g. Wago clips) you might be able to try different re-wire options before committing to soldering.

    I used Bourne https://www.bourns.com/docs/product-datasheets/PDB183-GTR.pdf which look similar to yours. The terminal pins were pretty small and hard to work with. The CTS ones are supposed to be easier, but I don’t think that they do push-push.

    Have fun

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  • Good idea to go for push-push over push pull. I have them on different guitars and push-push is quicker and easier.

    I haven’t found any manufacturers that do push-push with triple pole double throw, though.

    I also put a free-way pup selector on a strat copy, which is an alternative to switchable pots. https://sixstringsupplies.co.uk/collections/guitar-switches/brand_free-way

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  • See what you mean: the Yamaha Revstar doesn’t have Yamaha on the headstock, but does have the tuning forks.

    But other Yamahas don’t have the tuning forks but do say Yamaha. Eg. https://uk.yamaha.com/en/products/musical_instruments/guitars_basses/el_guitars/sg/index.html

    I think there was a period, pre Revstar, when motorbikes had the tuning forks but none of the Yamaha guitars did.

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  • Yamaha makes lots of other musical instruments too.

    The thing that puzzles me is that the Yamaha logo, 3 tuning forks, makes sense for instruments that you tune. But I’ve only seen it on their motorbikes.

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    Signed up for Equifax to freeze my credit, password can not be longer than 20 characters
  • I encountered something like this at work. It wasn’t pass related, it was just a means of getting people to make text responses. Ampersands were replaced with some gibberish format, which annoyed everyone.

    I got some kind of explanation from our tech people, which I understood to mean that ampersand was used to indicate that what followed was live code. Turning the ampersand into gibberish text was a safety measure to stop mischief.

    I’ve noticed ampersand replacements in some news feeds too

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    Use a password manager
  • My understanding is that your GF will be using Apple’s KeyChain, which is pretty good except that it’s hard to look inside and manually edit. It’s not just in Safari.

    The upcoming Password app is just a nice user interface to KeyChain. So no change to the functionality as such, but I think it’ll make a big difference to how it’s used.

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  • …same feeling about Shottr for the Mac. It has much nicer editing features than the standard Mac system and you can add extra screenshots or files.

    https://shottr.cc/

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    What’s the craziest thing you’ve seen someone driving do?
  • Similar, here.

    Stopped at lights on drive into work next to a woman at the wheel, spooning down her breakfast from a bowl.

    Someone, I told at work asked if you could get into trouble for this…maybe not the first time, but, yes, if you’re a cereal offender.

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    Number of plastic bags found on UK beaches down 80% since charge introduced
  • Yes. I find it surprising.

    It’s also good that there is analysis of the effect of the charge.

    I would like to know if the UK tax on sugared drinks has any beneficial effect. I believe that sales (and manufacture) have reduced but that’s pretty irrelevant—eg, has it improved obesity or dental health?

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    Just got my first guitar and IMMEDIATELY broke it :(
  • I’d remove the machine head/tuners on the bad side too. There will probably be a nut on the other side that you can undo and the tuners will just pull through. That will give you more working room and allow you to get the glue along the whole crack.

    I’m less sure about this one but you could, very carefully slide something like a knife to open the crack out a little. The is might allow the glue to flow in better. If your glue is runny, it might not make that much of an improvement, so perhaps not worth risking cracking it off completely. (Although the glue will be plenty strong enough, if you take off the broken part it might not be easy to line it back up properly. If it’s still attached, you’ll be right.)

    FWIW I once cycled 3 miles home with a new guitar too. It was in a heavy flight case and I thought it would be fine to carry it under one arm and wobble back one handed.

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  • My student accommodation had cockchafers. The university didn’t believe us until one of my friends presented them with one in a matchbox.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockchafer?wprov=sfti1

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  • It would be more efficient, for researchers and for funding agencies, if the dice-rolling occurred first.

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