Is Your Item Still Available? A Record Of Correspondence With A Craigslist Scammer

I'd forgotten all about this.

Read from the bottom up. This was a lot of fun.

what are you trying to do to me? I thought you were my friend, steven. Then I find that your other email account jemjim20@gmail.com is out of service?

I didn’t hear back from you I sent you this message so I looked in my email directory and found your other email address
Well, I’ve changed my mind but I want to know why you want all my personal details ;like my account numbers address and all. Y’see I found this guitar in a closet in a house that was being demolished it’s older than 1995 and I just know that the Lord Jesus musta give it to me for a reason because I’m mostly homeless and to tell the truth I broke into the house and I was sleeping in there until the cops ran me off. I do have a laptop but no permanent address but what I do is sit in a McDonalds and use their wifi. I can meet you in downtown Des Moines, if you hand over the cash I’ll go and get the guitar from where I have it stashed and I have prayed a lot and I figure jesus and buddha will be ok with me doing this even though the name inside the guitar case reads Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps. Now who on earth woulda worn a blue cap?
My real name is randy.
I have ttell you that the stratt was not the only guitar I found in that closet the other one was something called a rickenbacker which if you ask me is the stupidest name for a guitar I ever heard sounds like chewbacca in the movies. I go to a lot of movies because I can sleep there and its warm sometimes you can find sole leftover popcorn under the seat I’ll let you have it cheep because I really need to get out of the hooverville I stay in down by the river and get into a hotel for a while until my disability checkk comes in the lady at the post office is very nice to me and holds my mail as you can sea I am a little learning disabled mostly because Mrs. Lobasco my third grade teacher hit me over the head with a copy of the websters dictionary and she went o prison fer it but I figure she’s really my ma and I need money to go visit her at the prison in mitchellville.
peace and love randy lobasco.
Well, see, it’s just that I don’t have a permanent address because I’m more or less homeless. I also don’t have any credit since my bankruptcy so I can’t get a google pay account. The time I spent in prison didn’t help either and those tattoos really turn people off. I don’t know why you need my address just pick an address in des moines and your mover should be able to come up with a proce
From: Steven Edwards
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 11:55 AM
To: Robert Luedeman
Subject: Re: 1995 Fender Strat American - $735
I need your Name, Address, City, State, Zip code for the mover to calculate the cost of the shipment
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Robert Luedeman <rwluedeman@mchsi.com> wrote:
Well, I’ve changed my mind but I want to know why you want all my personal details ;like my account numbers address and all. Y’see I found this guitar in a closet in a house that was being demolished it’s older than 1995 and I just know that the Lord Jesus musta give it to me for a reason because I’m mostly homeless and to tell the truth I broke into the house and I was sleeping in there until the cops ran me off. I do have a laptop but no permanent address but what I do is sit in a McDonalds and use their wifi. I can meet you in downtown Des Moines, if you hand over the cash I’ll go and get the guitar from where I have it stashed and I have prayed a lot and I figure jesus and buddha will be ok with me doing this even though the name inside the guitar case reads Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps. Now who on earth woulda worn a blue cap?
My real name is randy.
From: Steven Edwards
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 10:19 PM
To: Robert Luedeman
Subject: Re: 1995 Fender Strat American - $735
Hello,
Am sorry i can only make the payment through Google Checkout, Don’t worry about the shipment, the item will be picked up by Private shipping company. And e-mail me back the pickup address such as Name,Address,City, State, Zip-code, Phone Number with your Google Checkout email account...
Thanks
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Robert Luedeman <rwluedeman@mchsi.com> wrote:
I’ve got to see a guy locally about trading for some gear I want. If that doesn’t get done you can have it but here is how it’ll work. You pay me via paypal plus an estimated shipping cost. I withdraw the money from paypal and when it is deposited in my bank then I ship, and not before. Any excess shipping gets refunded to you. I’ll email you tomorrow night.
From: Steven Edwards
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 7:34 PM
To: Robert Luedeman
Subject: Re: 1995 Fender Strat American - $735
I understand the present condition as started in the advert and i'm okay with the asking price, i will not be able to come to look at it due to the long distant and the easiest way for me to make the payment is through Google Checkout checkout.google.com and I'll take care of the pickup and delivery when the payment has been made by my mover, provide me your name, address, city, state, zip code with your phone number for the mover to calculate the cost of the shipment and your google checkout email account for me to make the payment.
Thanks
Steven Edwards
123 Beloit road
Marquette Heights IL 61554
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Robert Luedeman <rwluedeman@mchsi.com> wrote:
Yes, it is.
From: Steven Edwards
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 10:49 AM
To: k48pt-3443517076@sale.craigslist.org
Subject: 1995 Fender Strat American - $735

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Is your item is still available for sale
Steven Edwards

Music Man Driver Transistors

While I was away, a Music Man amp was sitting on the work bench waiting until I got home. After rehabilitating the bias network and power supply electrolytics and installing a pair of  2N6292 driver transistors the results were discouraging. Measuring across the 3.9 ohm emitter resistors revealed a significant split in voltages, no improvement from what was inside which was a mismatched pair where one had been replaced.

Then, I uncovered the updated service bulletin number 7 which indicates that the 2N6488 is the best replacement around for the 2N6292. And so it is, being matched within 2 mv. An adjustment of the bias pot finishes the job.

Note that with the use of the two stepped plastic washers and the mica insulator wafer in the 4724 installation kit, the driver transistor is insulated from ground and uses the chassis as a heat sink. Make sure that you use a good grade of thermal grease. also known as heat sink compound, bird poo and other unflattering names.

The 534-4724 Keystone mounting kits are available from Mouser Electronics as are the improved driver transistors.

The complete file of MusicMan service bulletins are available here including biasing instructions for all models including the earlier amps that used a 12AX7 driver tube.

Here's SB7 with a smallish shop drawing showing the positioning of the insulator wafer and stepped plastic or nylon insulating washers.

Thanks to the folks at Ernie Ball for maintaining this resource for the user and repair community.