Mystery/dangerous ? material in an amp?

Feb 20, 2007 4 Replies

The owner requested replacement of a couple of pots and unusually requested the amp be blown out. Being unusual request I enquired what is likely to be in there requiring blowing out but he seemed a bit cagey. Inside there are perhaps tens of thousands of precisely 2mm long black fibres, about human hair thickness. I first thought chopped strand carbon-fibre but these are less tham 30 Megohm resistance , isn't carbon fibre conductive?


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Could they actually be human hairs? is the owner a trendy short beard type or a skin head ;)?

It could be shedded carpet covering off a new speaker cabinet, I`ve seen it come off bass cabs a bit like that.

Ron(UK)

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Simple now you say it ,its the blue flock covering of the cab, in isolation the fibres look jet black, pulling some off with pliers and they're all 2 mm long.

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greater than 30M that should have been , but as "carpet" fibres a bit irrelevant know

Some modern carpets do actually contain a percentage of conductive fibres.

Ron(UK)

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