Fender Stage 100, 2003 I don't think anyone else had been in there before me, so a QC issue perhaps. I would not have thought the same person would be soldering components to the boards as well as assembly. Perhaps in-factory re-work stage leads to this sort of contamination, but still QC issue. Looked like PbF solder in a number of places but I think it was white heatsink compound incorporated into some of the solder joints. Most noticably one of the speaker wires loose, as the solder had not adhered to the pad in the most part and just touching contact when it wanted to. Then of course handfulls of white goo where there is AFAIK no point , between and all over the Al spacer bar , chasis and heatsink plate itself, as distinct from just a necessary mustard seed size lump under each TOP66 where the heat transfer concentration is. One Tx wire crimp was just laying in place due to the curvature of the wire , applying some force, and touching contact sometimes. A number of the others were inadequte clamping force to the posts Is there a problem with "Climb 8" make of 0.25 inch sockets as there was also a problem with that input socket but solder and springiness seemed good, seem very floppy in not enough plastic for the housing allowing the jack to move all over the place. Wired in upside down replacement will go in there.
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