RE: (TV) maurice rickard, science guy, and, i don't wanna die

[Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com>]

At 11:46 AM -0700 4/2/06, robin dunn wrote:
> yes, a fair amount of slack.  actually the wire seems
> pretty bent up and puny -- i would replace it if i
> knew how to deal w/ the end that goes into the body.

If it's not on the verge of breaking, it's probably ok, no matter how 
puny it seems.

> and w/ that slack, i'd imagine the ground might come
> into contact w/ the foil -- that'd be okay?

I'd tape over the capacitor leads so that there weren't any shorts. 
If it contacted the foil, you could be looking at a ground loop 
inside the guitar.  This wouldn't cause shocks, but would result in 
noise.  As an example, with the coax I'm using in my Kalamazoo, I've 
grounded the shields at one end only.  While more ground contact 
points seems like it would be a good thing, it actually isn't--you 
want the ambient EMF to have one clear path to ground, as opposed to 
several.
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Maurice Rickard
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