[Amps] VOX Tripping and Bandswitch Damage

[rlm]

On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 06:39  AM, Bill Coleman wrote:

> Hi Mike, you may be on to something...   I am not familiar with the 
> '78, but
> will relate something I have personally done & seen done by other 
> folks.
>
> Our club has an SB-220.  The stock Tune, Load, and Bandswitch knobs are
> identical.  On more than one occasion while tuning it up, the 
> bandswitch was
> cranked by mistake - under power!

***  occasionally greasing the detent ballbearing on the bandswitch 
also helps to distinguish bandswitch rotation from capacitor rotation.  
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