What The Heck Is This Inside My Rat?

[Bigsby]

It's carrying the bubonic sprague.

Proco have really great customer service, or they did a few years ago when they sent me a free battery cover. I'd email them about it.

 

[Trebor Renkluaf]

High Octane Drive Element

 

[Auditory Driving]

Proco knows that these were meant to last forever, but who d have expected they d go as far as throwing in a Cov19 rat survival kit - just in case..

 

[RBH]

...as the careless prostitute asked, after her unusual interaction with the perverted proverbial bishop!

hugely inappropriate !.... yet so quotable " "

 

[MogwaiBoy]

I didn't know ProCo made tampons but you learn something new every day.

 

[Improbable Joe]

I can totally see it, but I have no idea what it is.

It looks like a big paper-in-oil capacitor, maybe with a really high voltage rating?

A smaller, slightly more bitter rat?

 

[WillLane]

This thread is a fun ride.

My vote is an anti-pop cap.

 

[jdel77]

It’s a paper in oil capacitor. Unusually large, but probably what the guy who built it had on hand at the time. ProCo make all sorts of audio devices.

 

[James Freeman]

That is a 2 transistor 4 diode Proco Rat 2, right before they switched to using 3PDT, schematic below.
The two extra diodes and transistor are in the On/Off LED indicator circuitry, green color in the schematic below.

The two sound clipping diodes are replaced by a small package with LEDs for Turbo Rat or Diodes for standard Rat.
Probably was more expensive to manufacture the package than just to solder the diodes/LEDs so they stopped using this package very quickly.

Sorry to disappoint, this RAT is not special and is not a "collectible" that costs a million dollars.

 

[James Freeman]

I played it today. I A/B'ed it with the R2Du rack Rat. They sound very close, and indistinguishable in regard to preference in a blind test. I don't think the part in question affects the tone.

This part IS the tone.

 

[ED_P]

All I know is if a famous guitarist had one and used it on a popular album, those capacitors would be selling for $50 each, and modded Rats would be selling for $100 more to get that tone.

 

[Surgeon]

I was hoping to see a X-Ray of an actual rat that had been used to smuggle something cool in the country.
I'm highly disappointed, I should've looked at which room this was posted in. bummer.

 

[fingertip]

 

[Kid Casseroli]

When you search for "proco ho-de-01" on Google a patent application for pesticide comes up lol

A rat that comes with pesticide?

Sounds like an exterminator training kit.

 

[Neptical]

That right there is the birth of the SD-1 ...longed to be lost ...a red headed step child...in a better world as a BOSS.

 

[joesatch]

looks like the line ran out of caps and pulled out a box of PIO's to finish the day

 

[SubApathy]

That is a 2 transistor 4 diode Proco Rat 2, right before they switched to using 3PDT, schematic below.
The two extra diodes and transistor are in the On/Off LED indicator circuitry, green color in the schematic below.

The two sound clipping diodes are replaced by a small package with LEDs for Turbo Rat or Diodes for standard Rat.
Probably was more expensive to manufacture the package than just to solder the diodes/LEDs so they stopped using this package very quickly.

Sorry to disappoint, this RAT is not special and is not a "collectible" that costs a million dollars.

Not collectible? Tell that to Josh Scott...
He might want it (unless he already has it). Lol!

 

[hchoe741]

Not collectible? Tell that to Josh Scott...
He might want it (unless he already has it). Lol!

HE HAS THE BOX!

 

[analogmike]

 

[chankgeez]

Not collectible? Tell that to Josh Scott...
He might want it (unless he already has it). Lol!

Josh Scott thinks everything's collectable though.