Rickenbacher B-6 electronics

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 26 Apr 2003 5:04 pm

can anyone tell me what the original tone/volume pots should be? mine is a '37 with knobs (what should they look like) on opposite sides of pickup. are there authentic sounding replacements available?
thanx........

Rick Aiello · Post by **Rick Aiello** » 27 Apr 2003 6:18 am

I took a "poll" of my Prewar Ricks ...

The Capacitors were those "tube" like ones:

The brown TIGER ones:
1 was .1 MFD 400 VDC
5 were .05 MFD 400 VDC
1 was .05 MFD 200 VDC

The orange SPRAGUE ones...
2 were .03 MFD (no VDC listed)

The potentiometers that that were labled said CENTRALAB (Milwaukee) .... most had big black cases ... one had a visible marking on the side that said 500K (volume).

Only one of the smaller metal ones (later prewars) said 500K (tone)... the others were not labled.

I hope this helps ...

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chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 27 Apr 2003 9:56 am

thnx rick....i'll tell my solder monkey!

J D Sauser · Post by **J D Sauser** » 6 May 2003 1:21 am

Rick, was these volume control only or do you have information on the tone cap too... or is it just the one?

Thanks! ... J-D.

Rick Aiello · Post by **Rick Aiello** » 6 May 2003 4:15 am

The info on the capacitors (Tiger/Sprague) is given above .... both volume pot and tone pots were 500K ...