What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

[Erik S]

I think @Erik S was talking about abused JIS screws. people love to abuse pozidrive screws on Marshalls too
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Some people don't know the secret language of screwheads.
Other people know, but don't have 1000 screwdrivers, and are making do with what they've got.
I'm the worst kind- I know the difference. I have the right tool. But I just don't feel like walking out to the garage to get the right one.

 

[Harry Klippton]

"Let me just try to...ooops"

 

[Blooze]

"Let me just try to...ooops"

Ooops, is not what I usually say

 

[KR Sound]

One of the simpler prints I’ve done for someone. Pro-10 blue in the works.

 

[KR Sound]

Except I don’t have an A5k pot for the volume. I have a bunch of 50k There’s always something ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[vigilante398]

I finally convinced the lead guitarist in my band to upgrade his pedalboard power supply so he can handle more tubes, so he's going to be trying this out. Giving it a once-over before dropping it off to him.

 

[szukalski]

Not so much on the workbench, but starting to get the Sheepylove inventory documented. Not everything is a keeper, but that which is should be there eventually.



Even has dark mode!

 

[KR Sound]

Actually the B5 works great for the volume, so I’m cool with that. Used @szukalski ’s awesome relay board in this too.

 

[jwin615]

@Robert how does this make you feel?

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I think I'd opt for a can of brake cleaner at this point .

 

[Harry Klippton]

I think I'd opt for a can of brake cleaner at this point .

Somebody definitely drenched this thing in WD-40 everywhere EXCEPT inside the pots and faders

 

[Locrian99]

Ive got way too much to do right now with moving my bench/work area into my music room. And its getting tight in here as i added a new amp. But my new caps for the fender 75 came today so i took a pause from organizing to get that done and remove the death cap from the circuit. I did however leave it in there, its just not connected to anything anymore. Huge improvement in noise floor with the new caps, perhaps one of these days ill address the spaghetti, and maybe converting from UL…

 

[Guardians of the analog]

BBD

 

[airbud]

cheesemonger and HAARP. excited to arpeggiate!!!!

 

[Giorfida]

Ive got way too much to do right now with moving my bench/work area into my music room. And its getting tight in here as i added a new amp. But my new caps for the fender 75 came today so i took a pause from organizing to get that done and remove the death cap from the circuit. I did however leave it in there, its just not connected to anything anymore. Huge improvement in noise floor with the new caps, perhaps one of these days ill address the spaghetti, and maybe converting from UL…

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Nice! Hope you did the bias cap at the same time! Also keep an eye on those carbon comp plate resistors- notorious for drifting high and adding the “Rice Krispies” (snap, crackle, pop and hisssssss) to hour sound over time.

Definitely one of the better Fenders out of that era, and surprisingly doesn’t get the love that the Rivera models do (which I can’t understand)

 

[jwin615]

BBD
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CE-1?

 

[jwin615]

CE-1?

Or a CE-2? The world(well, my world) needs CE-2 PCBs.

 

[Guardians of the analog]

I built enough Chorus pedals for two lifetimes. I've done CE-2, CE-2B, CE-3 CE-1 and DC-2 already, so this is not another CE lol

 

[jimilee]

Ive got way too much to do right now with moving my bench/work area into my music room. And its getting tight in here as i added a new amp. But my new caps for the fender 75 came today so i took a pause from organizing to get that done and remove the death cap from the circuit. I did however leave it in there, its just not connected to anything anymore. Huge improvement in noise floor with the new caps, perhaps one of these days ill address the spaghetti, and maybe converting from UL…

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Wow, that’s some serious CBS era spaghetti you got going on there.

 

[Giorfida]

Wow, that’s some serious CBS era spaghetti you got going on there.

Notorious for it! I remember when I gave my old 74 Vibrolux it’s 30yr PM. Recapped it, replaced all noisy carbon comps, cut out the nasty CBS Hf suppressors, and switched it from a balance to proper bias.
After all that it still had a bad hum and other noises everywhere. I ended up cleaning up the wiring and pulled enough slack wire out of it to actually wire up another amp. Amp was so quiet after that you couldn’t tell it was on until you played.

 

[jimilee]

Notorious for it! I remember when I gave my old 74 Vibrolux it’s 30yr PM. Recapped it, replaced all noisy carbon comps, cut out the nasty CBS Hf suppressors, and switched it from a balance to proper bias.
After all that it still had a bad hum and other noises everywhere. I ended up cleaning up the wiring and pulled enough slack wire out of it to actually wire up another amp. Amp was so quiet after that you couldn’t tell it was on until you played.

Wow, that’s just insane.