What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

Mean Green Metal Machine into a Kliche Boost. I think this is like the 20th Kliche Boost I’ve built. Probably not, but it sure feels like it.

This enclosure took 20 days from Tayda. Longest lead time I’ve experienced with them yet. Customer is understanding luckily.

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And check it- Love My Switches has their name on their pots now. Coolio. Maybe they have, I haven’t ordered any from them in a while.
 
jwin615 said:
Damn poor chairmanship cheap bull$h/t!
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$250 wet dry vac, useless because they used a motor cooling fan with a press fit collar instead of something more solid
It works. For now. Until the motor melt through the plastic and fuels it's own firey death, igniting the contents of the vac and the rest of the plastic on its way out.
This definitely seems like a design to fail. It would have only taken a minutely ore expensive part to actually last. I *may* have 20 hours of run time on this. Maybe.
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have receipts MFers! 2.75 years into the 3 uearsyears warranty. Boom!

Sad illI'll have to toss this giant piece of plastic because the OEM went sheapcheap on a 10 cent part.

Almost as bad as when my $1100 Kenmore dishwasher(the first NICE new appliance I had ever purchased at ~27) self emolated over the use of a 3 cent 1/2 inch hose clamp that popped off the record line and fries the entire electrical system. I could fully depress the clamp with two fingers. Literally anything better and it would still be running today. Instead, the repeated cycles of the pump eventually walked the hose off the nipple which then pointed directly at the motherboard.it was just a few months out of warranty.
After raising hell about how this was literally designed to fail, regardless of it being the higher tier product that make, Sears refused to do anything. I pulled the serial off and dumped it in front of Sears front door at 3AM. Bastards.
 
I did my very first breadboard circuit today (other than when I made an LED light up right after I finished building my Protoboard yesterday).

Looking for a simple circuit, I found the schematic for the Amentum preamp in the shop so I built that just to see if I could figure out how things went together without causing a house fire. Upon completion, it worked (the preamp effect, not the house fire).

Of course, the layout is ugly and inefficient because I was flying totally by the seat of my pants but those are skills I can improve on as time goes by. First lesson: for a small circuit, maybe start on the side of the board near the pots and everything else so you don’t have to make it work right at the end with all those huge jumpers. Second lesson, next time you buy a breadboard from Mouser double check the description to make sure it is white, rather than transparent plastic, which makes it a complete and total bitch to see whether you are putting something in the correct hole or not.

Next up – trying to find a relatively simple circuit that involves an opamp or similar IC, since I didn’t have to learn how to hook one of those up in this project.

Mike


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Okay, the OD-s doesn't suck. Workhorse, not show pony. Smart controls- everything at 12:00 gets you a colored unity gain ( at least with the trim as I have it ). Diming both gain controls gets you a marginally silly burble. Tone = klone.

The Vox wanna-be-a-dumble preamp (silk drive) likes it more than it likes other drives I have.

I think theyre worth the 130 the outlet is asking on Reverb.

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I rolled the dice on a green ringer PCB that had some useful controls on it. Unfortunately, my idea was badly thought through and I should have breadboard it first. It only cost a few dollars for the PCB but it's yet another lesson for me not to be lazy. I'm not that clever.
 
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You would think the engineers knew that a clicky switch would make the tube ring. Pretty sure the valvenergy pedals all use jfet switching.

We don't need no steenkin battery.

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Why? ( for the LED... a clr just wasnt complicated enough? )

Removing them makes the associated line in the footswitch connector into a schottky protected vcc supply.

Yellow highlight on jumpers.
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... all of the components on this are through hole. The opamp is socketed ( not broke not fixing ). The mutation potential is huge.
 
So, I bought my daughter a 3/4 scale strat for Xmas and they actually threw in this little amp. I went to plug it in on Xmas eve, and it didn’t come on, so disappointingly, I put it out in the garage. Totally forgot about it til just now. Opened it up and it’s just an unconnected clip. Duh. Now she has her own amp.

I had to make a funny instagram post about it:

Behold: the legendary GA-10 — a highly sought-after solid-state gem (by absolutely no one).

Features include a pristine clean channel, a ferocious drive button, a rare headphone jack output, and a 6-inch speaker made in… somewhere, probably.

All packed into a rugged, featherweight chassis built for at least one or two good road trips.

Tone for days… if those days are rainy and you forgot your real amp.

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