Got the chassis kit (as in the pic) from here: http://www.solandfa.comCdog wrote:Yes! Exciting developments ahead Mike. Where did you get those goodies from?
Whats on your amp workbench?
Moderators: Slowy, Capt. Black
- MikeC
- Vintage Post Junkie
- Posts: 2944
- meble-kuchenne.warszawa.pl
- Joined: Fri Sep 12, 2003 5:43 pm
- Location: Red Beach, Auckland
- Has liked: 1313 times
- Been liked: 867 times
Re: Whats on your amp workbench?
Whakanuia o mea kei a koe
- MikeC
- Vintage Post Junkie
- Posts: 2944
- Joined: Fri Sep 12, 2003 5:43 pm
- Location: Red Beach, Auckland
- Has liked: 1313 times
- Been liked: 867 times
Re: Whats on your amp workbench?
Sounds interesting. How much are you asking for it?H671 wrote:I have a JBL E130 available. It has been re-coned before I bought it and has a paper dust cap instead of the metal one. Apparently the paper dust cap takes away some of the ice pickiness. I was using it in my Fender Excelsior, but that has now been sold.
Whakanuia o mea kei a koe
- H671
- Vintage Post Junkie
- Posts: 2322
- Joined: Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:33 pm
- Location: Auckland
- Has liked: 74 times
- Been liked: 265 times
Re: Whats on your amp workbench?
I made a typo, it's a JBL K130 15" - 103 Db SPL perfect for surf music. Looking for$150.
Epiphone Riviera P93 & EJ200CE, Hagstrom Viking Bass, Doubleneck bass/guitar.
Rivera Clubster 45, Carvin AG100D, Ashton BSK158.
Rivera Clubster 45, Carvin AG100D, Ashton BSK158.
- MikeC
- Vintage Post Junkie
- Posts: 2944
- Joined: Fri Sep 12, 2003 5:43 pm
- Location: Red Beach, Auckland
- Has liked: 1313 times
- Been liked: 867 times
- Bg
- Site Admin
- Posts: 43288
- Joined: Fri Sep 05, 2003 12:13 am
- Location: Auckland
- Has liked: 2263 times
- Been liked: 3907 times
Re: Whats on your amp workbench?
paging Mr. Molineaux
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.
- MikeC
- Vintage Post Junkie
- Posts: 2944
- Joined: Fri Sep 12, 2003 5:43 pm
- Location: Red Beach, Auckland
- Has liked: 1313 times
- Been liked: 867 times
Re: Whats on your amp workbench?
Meant to say, what a great looking buildCdog wrote:It was a faulty bias cap in the end. The fault was intermittent, so I'm thankful I caught it with a meter, it was only by chance. Naughty little bugger could have cooked my new Tung Sols!Cdog wrote:Amp tech question.
AB763 fixed Bias circuit, build is complete all Voltages look normal for 2x 5881s. During final tests quite by chance noticed an intermittent Bias runaway from idle at ~28mA to a over 200mA. Bias Voltage plummeted and B+ sagged from 430VDC to a little over 220VDC. Was able to kill the power and inspect right away, thankfully. No issues observed. On re-energising it problem had disappeared... but about 5 minutes later it happens again.
First thought is replace the bias electrolytic capacitor, which I've ordered.
Could it be faulty Power Tubes? Any other ideas?
After that, prolly gonna stay on the bench for a bit more testing before I box it up...
Sounds absolutely dreamy ♥♥♥
Whakanuia o mea kei a koe
- MikeC
- Vintage Post Junkie
- Posts: 2944
- Joined: Fri Sep 12, 2003 5:43 pm
- Location: Red Beach, Auckland
- Has liked: 1313 times
- Been liked: 867 times
Re: Whats on your amp workbench?
'64 Vibroverb chassis is starting to take shape. Drilling done, valve bases installed, heaters wired (far canal, hate it!!!), bias board populated/installed & transformers mounted. After struggling with heater wiring over many builds I'm gonna try and get push-back 18 gauge solid core heater wire for next time. Should make life way easier.
Whakanuia o mea kei a koe
- Cdog
- Vintage Post Junkie
- Posts: 4366
- Joined: Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:01 pm
- Location: Christchurch
- Has liked: 3481 times
- Been liked: 711 times
Re: Whats on your amp workbench?
Cheers Mike!Mike Clayton wrote: Meant to say, what a great looking build
I have never built a Fender before, and eyelet boards are new to me too. It took some head scratching and lots of Google image search to figure some things out. Finding a decent layout diagram on robrobinette's site was very helpful. Here's a couple of better quality pics of it as it stands, still incomplete. Couple of finishing tweaks to do yet, haven't decided if it needs a MV. I'll do a completed build post once it's done... Maybe in another year or so
- bender
- Darth Fader
- Posts: 11848
- Joined: Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:46 pm
- Location: Dorkland
- Has liked: 415 times
- Been liked: 1010 times
Re: Whats on your amp workbench?
If you don't add a Master Vol, get a good attenuator- these sound best in the 4-6 range, which can be pretty damn loud.
- Cdog
- Vintage Post Junkie
- Posts: 4366
- Joined: Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:01 pm
- Location: Christchurch
- Has liked: 3481 times
- Been liked: 711 times
Re: Whats on your amp workbench?
Cheers, good to know. I look forward to getting to know this amp's personality.bender wrote:If you don't add a Master Vol, get a good attenuator- these sound best in the 4-6 range, which can be pretty damn loud.
- MikeC
- Vintage Post Junkie
- Posts: 2944
- Joined: Fri Sep 12, 2003 5:43 pm
- Location: Red Beach, Auckland
- Has liked: 1313 times
- Been liked: 867 times
Re: Whats on your amp workbench?
Corey, was this a kit or did you source all the bits individually? And what are those tag boards doing near the 6L6's?
Whakanuia o mea kei a koe
- Cdog
- Vintage Post Junkie
- Posts: 4366
- Joined: Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:01 pm
- Location: Christchurch
- Has liked: 3481 times
- Been liked: 711 times
Re: Whats on your amp workbench?
Mike, it was a Mojotone kit, but I changed a few things.Mike Clayton wrote:Corey, was this a kit or did you source all the bits individually? And what are those tag boards doing near the 6L6's?
To answer your question, the blue things near the power tubes are MOVs, a protection measure for the OT in case of speaker disconnection or other sudden failure. Next to those I have a couple of 1-Ohm resistors in series with the power-tube cathodes (to ground), to make for easy biasing.
There's a few other geeky things going on. Film resistors for better reliability. Switchable speaker impedance for the OT. All PT windings except bias are fused. IEC fused AC inlet. No standby switch, but a NTC thermistor on the Phase line to try reduce inrush current (not convinced it's doing much). 5AR4 rectifier instead of GZ34 to knock down the B+, it's around 430VDC running 5881's instead of 6L6GCs.
- MikeC
- Vintage Post Junkie
- Posts: 2944
- Joined: Fri Sep 12, 2003 5:43 pm
- Location: Red Beach, Auckland
- Has liked: 1313 times
- Been liked: 867 times
Re: Whats on your amp workbench?
Aha, that explains most of the things I saw in the pics including those fuses!
Whakanuia o mea kei a koe
-
- Ashton
- Posts: 151
- Joined: Tue Nov 06, 2018 4:37 pm
- Location: Chch
- Has liked: 32 times
- Been liked: 201 times
Re: Whats on your amp workbench?
Just tried this out tonight. It's a 5e3 with robrobinette's mods, master vol, lead and normal channel. Its consideribly easier to overdrive compared to stock 5e3's. It's quite crunchy.
I need to get some more dial bulbs. I am using the old radio dial lights as an indicator.
The radio/pa would have originally done duty in a school or motel
I need to get some more dial bulbs. I am using the old radio dial lights as an indicator.
The radio/pa would have originally done duty in a school or motel
- MikeC
- Vintage Post Junkie
- Posts: 2944
- Joined: Fri Sep 12, 2003 5:43 pm
- Location: Red Beach, Auckland
- Has liked: 1313 times
- Been liked: 867 times
Re: Whats on your amp workbench?
That's kind-of point to point wired with a couple of tag boards. Cool!
Whakanuia o mea kei a koe