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pompeiisneaks wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 5:01 pm Oh man love the space shuttle! excellent stuff.

~Phil

Thanks Phil!

maxkracht wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 4:08 am Looking good! Makes me want to try out wood burning.

Thanks Max. The woodburning is pretty cool. It's not difficult, just takes some practice to learn what tip you need and how slow or fast you need to move the tip over the wood to get the desired look you are going for.

Here's the final build pics. I'm really liking how this amp sounds!

Looking great! Beautiful work. Thank you. What Heyboer PT did you use? HTS-9144 from RJ HTS-9144.jpeg Did you measure power tube plate current and dissipation? If it is high your other voltages will get pulled down. You can adjust your different node voltages by changing the dropping string resisto...

It's alive!!! Got a woodburned faceplate finished up, solder up the pilot light, threw it on the lightbulb limiter and fired it up. All was good so fired it up without the limiter and all looked good. This amp sounds so good! My voltages mostly look like the expected values. The PI values are a litt...

Tip! Two things. Use plexi because soaking the item in water until the paper comes off with a fingertip is perfection.. OR Use 4 coat sealer then sand dead flat before using the glue. Make sure the piece is sealed all edges front and back. You can be rougher with the water and never break the seale...

Thanks Max, I'll check it out.

Hey everyone, it's hard to believe it's been a year since I've had time to work on this! The Mod Podge front panel has been a source of frustration and disappointment. The Mod Podge I pictured above is white and makes for a fairly vivid transfer of the print but I've been unsuccessful at removing th...

I would also agree with getting in touch with RJ. All of his components are top notch and he is fantastic to deal with.

That is looking great!

WOW! That does work really well... gonna look great. Thanks, I'm pretty impressed with it. What about having the image printed at a local(?) copy place with bigger paper and avoid the seam? Just started looking into this and it seems like I can get it done quite easily. That will solve that issue. ...

Ok, I've got proof of concept for the Mod-Podge photo transfer for my faceplate. I did have a couple issues, so I'll need to sand it off and redo it, but it worked surprisingly well. I couldn't find my J-roller so I just used a rounded object to smooth out the image but this caused a small tear. I c...

That looks awesome!

Nothing wrong with your ground buss like that... I keep scraps of 14/2 and 12/2 to strip out just for busses. I usually bend them and solder the end into one of those ground lugs with the teeth, exactly like the one bepone posted. Like this: IMG_20220712_215513643.jpg :shock: Your builds are amazin...

Is there a downside to this method (pic)? It's very solid. I used some ground wire from a 12/2 spool for the house, and some lead cutoffs from the orange drops. I too don't like soldering to pot backs...always concerned I'm going to destroy them. PF-TWRocket-09.jpg That looks good. If it's solid th...