I apologize if this has already been asked, but I couldn't find it after a cursory search. I accidentally pulled out the cord out of my artist custom last night (rather violently, because I was stepping on the cord and torqued my body really hard)) and then everything turned to static. I opened the back cavity, and noticed that one of the output jack terminals had been directly soldered onto the pot terminal as the jack terminal came within a hair of the pot. The problem is that when the jack moved, the joint broke. I was surprised that there was no wire jumper connecting the two terminals. Is this typical? It seems crazy. So I was going to put a little wire jumper but the space was a bit cramped, there was another wire coming out of the second output jack lead that was in the way, and I was afraid of either melting that wire, burning the guitar or my hand (or all of the above), so I just reheated that joint and got it connected again. I was going to use this guitar for my jazz gig in 2 weeks and was not going to bring another guitar with me. Now I am really concerned that this thing breaks right in the middle of my gig. Should I: (a) leave it alone because it's working again, (b) go back in tonight and try to solder a little jumper wire between the two leads for that peace of mind?, or c) take it to a tech who knows what they are doing?
my fear of trying (b) is that I have read about pots getting destroyed due to overheating by a solder gun (but there are lots of solder joints on top of the pots so sometime in the past someone was having a soldering party on those pots and they still work). Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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I apologize if this has already been asked, but I couldn't find it after a cursory search. I accidentally pulled out the cord out of my artist custom last night (rather violently, because I was stepping on the cord and torqued my body really hard)) and then everything turned to static. I opened the back cavity, and noticed that one of the output jack terminals had been directly soldered onto the pot terminal as the jack terminal came within a hair of the pot. The problem is that when the jack moved, the joint broke. I was surprised that there was no wire jumper connecting the two terminals. Is this typical? It seems crazy. So I was going to put a little wire jumper but the space was a bit cramped, there was another wire coming out of the second output jack lead that was in the way, and I was afraid of either melting that wire, burning the guitar or my hand (or all of the above), so I just reheated that joint and got it connected again. I was going to use this guitar for my jazz gig in 2 weeks and was not going to bring another guitar with me. Now I am really concerned that this thing breaks right in the middle of my gig. Should I: (a) leave it alone because it's working again, (b) go back in tonight and try to solder a little jumper wire between the two leads for that peace of mind?, or c) take it to a tech who knows what they are doing?
my fear of trying (b) is that I have read about pots getting destroyed due to overheating by a solder gun (but there are lots of solder joints on top of the pots so sometime in the past someone was having a soldering party on those pots and they still work). Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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