Snake Oil salesman gets caught selling Lizard Oil

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"Pssst, hey buddy, youse wansum paypir-n-oil caps?"


What a muppet!


Responses by the company rep (JayDuhr or whoever) seem well-thought-out, pragmatic, logical... if only those concepts were applied in the first place when they ran out of the correct caps
— because you can't back-pedal on the obvious & intentional bait-and-switch that was performed.

If the company had executed an immediate "we're out of these caps, so we're shipping these harnesses with film-foil cap instead until supplies of paper-oil can be sourced again..." all would be copacetic instead of completely pathetic.

They could've "made things right" from the beginning, but chose to dupe people with a literal cover-up.








Links like this I click out of curiosity, read a few paras maybe a couple pages and then I'm back to ignoring that forum altogether.
 
Some guys get really defensive of their insistence that PIO caps in a guitar are so much better. I dunno, maybe they are better. But there are so many other ways to improve a sound more that I can't get worried about it. I rarely use tone controls, and will never understand the sneering attitude of some of those who do. You know, the guys who say that you can't play guitar properly unless you use the volume knob incessantly. Whatever... Sometimes I use the vol pot but more often than not it's either at zero or ten. Does it really matter??

And that guy covering Mojos is a fraudster, pure and simple. I didn't see him say sorry anywhere either. Surprised he didn't say his competitor "stole" his real PIO caps.
 
homebrewtj said:
The company 920D gets busted selling shrink wrapped $2 Mojotone caps for $20 PIO caps in their wiring harnesses.

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Considering mojo also makes their own mineral oil PIO caps, that's just plain stupid. At least they could have just painted some of the mojos...

www.mojotone.com

Mojotone Vitamin T .022uF 600V Oil Filled Capacitor

The most important vitamin of them all! Vitamin "T" oil filled capacitors are handmade one at a time for that perfect tone. These are special musical capacitors designed specifically for guitars and amplifiers to give a lush and creamy top end with lots of clarity. .022uf is recommended for...
www.mojotone.com www.mojotone.com
HamishR said:
Some guys get really defensive of their insistence that PIO caps in a guitar are so much better. I dunno, maybe they are better. But there are so many other ways to improve a sound more that I can't get worried about it. I rarely use tone controls, and will never understand the sneering attitude of some of those who do. You know, the guys who say that you can't play guitar properly unless you use the volume knob incessantly. Whatever... Sometimes I use the vol pot but more often than not it's either at zero or ten. Does it really matter??

And that guy covering Mojos is a fraudster, pure and simple. I didn't see him say sorry anywhere either. Surprised he didn't say his competitor "stole" his real PIO caps.
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It's not so much the tone as the sounds that are excluded, buzz, hum and hiss....
 
My favorite part was where at some point one of their guys said something that suggested they didn't have the time to update their website descriptions or something to that effect.

I'm no web developer but I've dabbled a bit and I'm pretty confident it's gonna take a lot less time/effort to update your website to reflect the current, accurate capacitors than the amount of time/effort it would take to put the shrink on the Mojo caps to make them look like your PIOs, lol
 
RetiredUnit1 said:
It's not so much the tone as the sounds that are excluded, buzz, hum and hiss....
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I haven't heard that before - is that presented as a reason to use PIO caps? It's lucky that buzz, hum and hiss aren't really an issue for me! I do dribble occasionally but I doubt any caps are going to help with that.
 
HamishR said:
I haven't heard that before - is that presented as a reason to use PIO caps? It's lucky that buzz, hum and hiss aren't really an issue for me! I do dribble occasionally but I doubt any caps are going to help with that.
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Regular caps, in tube amps, are prone to introducing these bothersome sounds from exterior sources, neon lights, motors, etc. I discovered this while testing caps for the foil end with a home made tester. PIO caps are so silent it's almost impossible to tell which end is the foil end. If you plug into an amp, and attach one end of a cap to the tip and the other to the sleeve, and turn on a noisy EM source and move the cap close you'll hear what I mean.
 
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