Mike B. recently went through my purple stripe, and upgraded the 680 ohm LDR supply resistor to a 2W (I think the original was 1W and had a penchant for burning up).
Hey, just noticed this post and signed up. I actually have a Mesa headshell I ordered directly from the factory early last year with reverb and fan installed. Decided to rack mount my Mark III instead. Are you interested in buying it off me?