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Knobs for my amp build (still waiting on the transformer, their deadline was this week /sadface) and CnC bits to attempt doing fretboards this way. 0,6mm diameter is small. Feels like it’ll break if i breathe too hard. Not pictures: 1m of hollow carbon tube and 100g of fluo powder so I can make...

The drilled and coated chassis shipped to me ends up being the same price as a raw piece of aluminum folded four time shipped to me from the same country. And that is using my trick of not ordering a chassis, but ordering a custom piece of gutter from an aluminum provider. As most actual custom...

Managed to catch JLC customer support today to ask if they could do masking before powder coating on their aluminium sheet metal. Shanice told me “HU-uh Honey we can’t have none of that masking here” I might be paraphrasing the answer slightly but the name is accurate 🤣 Still might be worth...

I am using Fusion. Took my exactly 5 minutes from starting to model to getting the quote for the non-drilled enclosure. Obviously a drilled enclosure takes more time but nothing major, I would probably be done in 30min tops (kinda have to be precise so with my randomly placed PCB stand offs...

Following a short exchange with @vigilante398 I did a couple of simulations on JLC for a custom chassis. C-shape, 2mm aluminium. 9cm high, 25cm deep, 45cm long, with 3cm folds to be able to screw the chassis to the headshell: Base: 10€ Powdercoated: 13€ (!) With enough holes for tube sockets...

Black Friday is coming up. And a basic desktop computer is pretty cheap nowadays. Even good screens are cheap. The high end stuff price exploded though, a modern graphic card is more expensive than my old school high end computer what the hell.

Thanks for the breakdown. I usually go for the slow shipping, never had an issue. The packages usually chill at the HK airport and land in Paris so it's low risk for me, just takes 10 days or so. Time to model a chassis without holes, with holes, and with powder coating just to see what each...

Hm. I think I will get a quote from JLC for my next chassis then. Since I am in Europe and pay no tariffs (rubbing it innnn), if I can get what I need drilled around 50€ I will be happy. I like your enclosure though! Slopped always made more sense to me. I don’t know why it’s not standard.

Did you special the radius of the fold? If so, one is out of spec. It depends a lot where you ordered in China and in the US so I won't venture into what comes from where but the left one looks great really.

While I did catch Korn in Amsterdam for the release of Issues, and I did have a very, very memorable concert with Static-X / Amen / Mudvayne / Slipknot the same night in 2000 in Paris, I would do things to see the Family Values tour of '98. Also I couldn't make it to the Retinal Circus in...

Time to order then :) lucky for you, I guess you use like 100VA so it’s probably not that expensive. And not output trans…

That’s very clean! I forgot the Wizard has led clipping ;) And you must have quite a collection of transformers by now…

I am no Steve Fryette but using PCB Belton sockets for my stuff, the Novals do not have the flanges while the Octals do. You have to use standoffs (1mm for the noval and 1.5 for the octal is nice imo). It’s easy enough to fit enough standoffs on a PCB to avoid flex. Commercial products on pcb...

You could also order from Europe. Shipping is usually not that bad. On top of my head Rosamp, Musikding, Tube Town and Tube Amp Doctor all sell kits of varying sizes, types and order of readiness. I think TAD even sells drilled chassis and headshells for their kits. You could also get a PCB...

Love it, looking clean! I might be dumb but what are those jack pot looking things tht you have (4 in a row) above the multimeter plugs? Individual sunken bias trims? That looks ave, I need that for my next build...

If those are kt88 I’m pretty sure the box is worth more than my current home.

Hey didn’t you ask me a few posts earlier if I had even ever seen a schematic ? 😁 Regarding the voltages and the bias, and given some tubes production is pretty unstable, I have put a bias switch to change the range of the bias setting. Just a resistor in or out. Hopefully will allow me to use...

PCB for my Diezel ish amp came in. Build should start soon!

Hey my PCBs just arrived I will have to do a test fit before I go soldering but so far it looks fine. I am not that happy with the socket distance I picked for the power tubes as I somehow messed it up and I will have only 2cm between tubes but it should be fine temperature wise still. As it...