The Amp Garage

Great work Rich! Thanks for sharing your trouble-shooting adventure. It was very educational. (btw - Stop by Big Jim's and have a BBQ for me in celebration. I still miss that place.)

Sonny

Definitely going to miss 18watt. I usually lurked there a couple times a day. Hardly had to ask any questions because the answers were in the archives. What a great bunch of helpful, knowledgeable folks.

Sonny

Have you seen his ultimate guitar gear articles? http://www.ultimateguitargear.com/kens_column.htm Also, check out the "Trainwreck Pages" from Vintage Guitar. Here's a sample: http://books.google.com/books?id=fvUVBP3wW1gC&pg=PA171&lpg=PA171&dq=ken+fischer+%22trainwreck+pages%22&source=web&ots=0voyo7...

They're probably two different voltage ratings. When I got some wire from Apex, I got a mix of 600V and 1000V. (Steve asked if that was OK before shipping.) The 600V looks pretty skinny and the teflon is quite thin. The 1000V looks more like regular PVC.

I use a Weller WES50. It's the forerunner of the WES51. Basically the same iron with a different handle connector. It's been a good workhorse without any problems. I have the smallest (1/16"?) screwdriver tip on it and use 700F. Found some other reviews here: http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/2671

RDH4 is also online:

http://headfonz.rutgers.edu/RDH4/

This is way over my head, but basically the idea in paralleling an electrolytic with a smaller value film cap is to overlap the high-impedance (resonance) point of the "bad" cap by a low impedance from the second cap. I've seen this more in power supply filtering. Here's a quote from a website that ...

You might find some interesting reading here:

http://www.pmillett.com/tecnical_books_online.htm

I found a possible explanation here: http://www.booyaka.com/~al/audio/theory_electronics/valve-theory.txt Here's the pertinent section: In many super high gain preamps you'll find very small bypass caps attached to the plate resistors. These caps allow extremely high frequencies that might cause "sq...

Being a blues fan, I'm kinda partial to this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6VAipqeIpo

Sonny