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Anyone know a less financially crippling way to source 10meg and 3meg audio taper pots ? Also need 350k with 70k tap Weber sells them but of course there is a $60 usd shipping fee The other amp parts shops seem not to carry them Otherwise does anyone know a work around for these values (especially ...

Tell me about it! But what price love?

Was it used for different voicings in the soundtrack of "Brokeback Mountain"?

jeremyb wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 1:33 pm I'm yet to find a solution that can take me from standard tuning to:
F
A
G
D
A
D

You want to tune to this?

Grant B, Conway - you boys wind them up, or keep them clean? Robbie - Bandmaster would stay pretty clean right? Maybe a little grit at the top of the dial? Twins scare me. I was dating some twins when I was university, everyone would always ask me how I tell them apart, I said it was easy, Rebecca ...

I don't have any pre-made turret boards but I can make them. That's what I do for the amps I build.
If you name a Trinity amp I can build the turret board for you.
So did you do a mod to V1a cathode circuit?

werdna wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:36 pm

MikeC wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:37 am

werdna wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:09 am
2 pot poly, very thin.

It looks like a great job.

Now that I've worked with quality poly and know how to put it on thinly, I'll never use nitro again because it isn't a tough finish.

I suppose people go for nitro partly for that very reason - the rate of wear.

werdna wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:09 am

MikeC wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 1:47 pm Nice! Did you spray nitro?

2 pot poly, very thin.

It looks like a great job.

More on that AC10 SRT "reverb" from the "Vox Showroom" website... The AC10SRT used the infamous Vox crystal phono cartridge based reverb pan. Tom Jennings, the president of Vox, resented having to pay the $1 per amp licensing fee charged by Hammond Accutronics fee for the use of ...

Hollow wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 10:28 am I thought his was a really interesting amp, and hopefully a cool ongoing series for gear dorks.

What a unique amp, that "Stinger cct" sustains forever!

Nice! Did you spray nitro?

Interesting concept, like a fluence or similar I guess... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aojyjsl3MI Here's an interesting tidbit - back in the Sixties Vox invented their own spring reverb unit using a ceramic record cartridge at each end driving a springy wire thingy. It was used in the Vox AC10 ...

Aquila Rossa wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:54 pm

MikeC wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:40 pm Have you got transformers, valve bases etc?

None of that yet. Just doing the turret board for now. If the nephew is keen after that, I'll look at ordering everything else.

Good luck!

Have you got transformers, valve bases etc?