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SiriusHardware · 9th Aug 2018, 1:10 pm

Edward, I agree with your general observation but I do not think we should discourage the O/P from at least a preliminary visual investigation.

It probably is too early to be giving detailed explanations of how things work, but once posted, the information remains online and may yet prove invaluable to some other party who surfs into this thread in search of similar information, so the time and trouble taken (mainly by Julie in this case) is never wasted.

Everyone on this forum started with no knowledge at all and was either guided initially by someone more experienced or self-taught, or more likely a mixture of both.

It's been said that both this unit and one other unit that the OP noticed for sale were originally suffering from volume control problems - that suggests to me the possibility of a weakness / stock fault on these volume controls which may be present or about to happen on any similar unit found for sale.

So why not at least try to fix this one?

9th Aug 2018, 1:10 pm	#32
SiriusHardware Dekatron Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, UK. Posts: 11,583	Re: HMV 2046 Volume stuck on Full Edward, I agree with your general observation but I do not think we should discourage the O/P from at least a preliminary visual investigation. It probably is too early to be giving detailed explanations of how things work, but once posted, the information remains online and may yet prove invaluable to some other party who surfs into this thread in search of similar information, so the time and trouble taken (mainly by Julie in this case) is never wasted. Everyone on this forum started with no knowledge at all and was either guided initially by someone more experienced or self-taught, or more likely a mixture of both. It's been said that both this unit and one other unit that the OP noticed for sale were originally suffering from volume control problems - that suggests to me the possibility of a weakness / stock fault on these volume controls which may be present or about to happen on any similar unit found for sale. So why not at least try to fix this one?