Whats on your amp workbench?

[robthemac]

Also your guitar sauna is getting uncomfortably close to a literal sweat shop

Isobel's reward was 22W of bad blues guitar at a distance of two metres.

[StrummersOfThunder]

Also your guitar sauna is getting uncomfortably close to a literal sweat shop

Isobel's reward was 22W of bad blues guitar at a distance of two metres.

Wow. Strat ?
Surely not Strat

[robthemac]

Also your guitar sauna is getting uncomfortably close to a literal sweat shop

Isobel's reward was 22W of bad blues guitar at a distance of two metres.

Wow. Strat ?
Surely not Strat

Not Strat. I'm not that cruel to my children.

[StrummersOfThunder]

Isobel's reward was 22W of bad blues guitar at a distance of two metres.

Wow. Strat ?
Surely not Strat

Not Strat. I'm not that cruel to my children.

Ok I can stop waiting on hold with CYFS

[codedog]

Wow. Strat ?
Surely not Strat

Not Strat. I'm not that cruel to my children.

Ok I can stop waiting on hold with CYFS

Wow... it hasn't been CYFS for ages... you've been waiting on hold for years? It's Orange [sic] Tamariki now.

[StrummersOfThunder]

Not Strat. I'm not that cruel to my children.

Ok I can stop waiting on hold with CYFS

Wow... it hasn't been CYFS for ages... you've been waiting on hold for years? It's Orange [sic] Tamariki now.

Oh no i was on the line to a support group 'Concealing Yearning For Stratocasters'

[robthemac]

Ok I can stop waiting on hold with CYFS

Wow... it hasn't been CYFS for ages... you've been waiting on hold for years? It's Orange [sic] Tamariki now.

Oh no i was on the line to a support group 'Concealing Yearning For Stratocasters'

Stay strong.

[Bg]

Getting there…

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No biscuits were harmed in this amp, just honest to goodness dovetails and pine. Loved planing the angles as well. A hand plane is a wonderful tool.

[TmcB]

Getting there…IMG_1708.jpeg

No biscuits were harmed in this amp, just honest to goodness dovetails and pine. Loved planing the angles as well. A hand plane is a wonderful tool.

Hey you can put that Genuine Fender baffle I sent you out of my Princeton in there!

[TmcB]

This video appeared in my feed and I thought of you!

Ruthlessly pillaged that video…removed all the parts, replaced with the vishay and yageo parts/series he mentioned.

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Still have the pots to swap, inputs to sort, power tube sockets to swap to Beltons with bear traps, and rotate the PT but the parts upgrade is quite an improvement

[Bg]

Getting there…IMG_1708.jpeg

No biscuits were harmed in this amp, just honest to goodness dovetails and pine. Loved planing the angles as well. A hand plane is a wonderful tool.

Hey you can put that Genuine Fender baffle I sent you out of my Princeton in there!

I've saved that as an example of what not to do, ever. I'm sure chipboard has its place... and its not in an amp. Actually I'm struggling to find its place.

[TmcB]

Today is rotate a transformer day.

Silly Marshall put the power transformer and output transformer on the same axis for the earlier bluesbreaker ri’s. This means you get noise throughout the amp. Could also be that the transformer itself is noisy but even a replacement will be better in the correct orientation.

Original orientation

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Attacked with dremel cutoff. I used the transformer bell cover as a pseudo jig to align the holes correctly. Needed 2mm each side of transformer added. Very much wish this aluminium instead of steel, would have been infinitely easier.

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Reinstalled, ready to wire back up

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[TmcB]

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Wired up in new config, powered up, happy days.

[MikeC]

Nice. Did the 50Hz hum reduce?

[Slowy]

Nice. Did the 50Hz hum reduce?

Mike, what's your thoughts on the Cajun?