PV PVi4B amp, 2009

Failed output but fan continued. Any new ideas for that archetypal PbF symptom , of failure with owner and everything fine with repairer.? Initially litterally feather-touch twizzling ellicited nothing, plastic rod twizzling nothing. So now will have temporally "cured" any bad PbF joint. So next will be out with the big-guns, hot air and nylon bolt in engraving tool while listening to output on attenuatored headphones. Hopefully in speaker line as thermal sw is not in speaker line and owner reported not hearing hiss on the speaker when it failed, also checked not a speaker/lead problem. H&S issue, certainly QC issue, scrap of plastic? under the chassis ground solder tag complete with another star washer vaguely stuck to this plastic/paint film , awaiting a minor jolt to loosen , to fall into the amp. "Made in China" on the cab.

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A couple of the active speaker outlet 1/4" socket pins could only resist

0.2N-m of torque appled to a 5mm flat blade screwdriver angled into a convenient hole in each pin and levering at about 45 degree against the rear pcb. But of course the pbf solderings looked fine. But prior to taking that rear apart , hot-air and nylon rod engraver shaker testing. An area of the preamp showed up to x3 increase in output level playing low temp ,90 to 100 deg C, hot air over. A "bus strip" of parallel conductors the length of the preamp pcb showed sensitivity to severe vibration. So will now have to remove the preamp board and see what is on the other side of that board. No schematic found.
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Text book PbF crap. Another symptom/cure to add to the lengthening PbF repair manual. The long run of sensitity; one trace ran to a wire jumper with bad pbf, presumably the engraver vibration ran along the 15 inch run of copper, with 6 or so 22K off that line. Close look at all those most basic of components and some more dodgey joints seen, so dealt with all jumper wires and all XLR and preamp 1/4 in sockets although they passed limited lever testing. The thermal x3 gain section had a PT2399 reverb, appropriately made by PTC, on the other side of the pcb in a sprung pin DIL socket , replaced with turned pin socket.

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I was just wondering it portland cement mortar would be as reliable as PbF solder "joints"

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