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Greetings to Carver Fans! My name is Rick and I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area. I just aquired "Bob" today, an MXR-130 wiith beautiful sound, but a slight problem as the volume control seems to be out of control spining full circle without stops at mininum or maximum level positions, and having different levels for left and right channels. Looking for suggestions, or for a replacement volume control assembly. Glad to be part of the Carver family and thanks for any help. Rick in SF

Hello! New to the site. Hoping to find some help and support on repairing some carver gear. I have a TFM 15 I'm currently refurbing. I have a C1 I hope to do the Bill D mods on soon! Looking forward to chatting!

I have an mxr 130. I've owned it since 1985 when I purchased it new. I was just 23 years old and this was my first big purchase out of college and working my first real job. Anyway, I blew it up in 1988 and I replaced the c2527 transistors (as far as I can remember) myself. I quickly blew those transistors again, so I took it to a shop to have them fix it. Which they did, and it blew up again. So I took it back and they fixed it again. It lasted 2+ decades after that and now has blown up again. I'm assuming the same thing has happened again as the fuse blows everytime I turn it on. Which is what happened all the previous times it blew up. Anyway, I'm finally getting back to fixing it again. I found this site and figured it would be a good resource for me once I start digging in to fix it.

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Welcome Rick. I haven't worked with an MXR-130 so can't give you any specific input on that volume control, but the service manual & parts list can be found here by clicking on the 'Manuals and Specsheets' link at the top of any page. And a search here might also get you some good info. The MXR-130s are pretty popular units and serviceable. And there are a couple of Carver-specialty service outfits you can also contact: Nelion Audio Repair Carver Audio Repair