2A3 "Pink SET" Amp Rebuild.
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#16 Re: 2A3 "Pink SET" Amp Rebuild.
Apart from the aeronautical equivalent of the 'pit girls' who more or less attend to my whims, wishes and desires en voyages, as it were, the entourage just fit into my ageing 747. Where runways aren't long enough, at the other end, practical alternatives to hiring smaller planes and often several Chinook helicopters would be welcome. I am, after all, very ecology aware and am always, within reason, willing to do my share.
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#17 Re: 2A3 "Pink SET" Amp Rebuild.
Ahem!!
as you don't currently contribute to mine I think it only right and proper that I send you my bank details in order for you to feel some form of closure. We can call it wish fulfilment.
nb. there maybe some spelling inconsistencies and infinitive splitting in the above. If so I apologise.
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#18 Re: 2A3 "Pink SET" Amp Rebuild.
Nor mine either
Mind you my two are modest enough not to trouble the tax threshold when added together, so I'm definitely not one of them mythical wealthy pensioners the right wing rags have been banging on about since 2010, but it'll do me, my needs are few, as are those of the missus - eat and pay the bills will do for us.
Mind you my two are modest enough not to trouble the tax threshold when added together, so I'm definitely not one of them mythical wealthy pensioners the right wing rags have been banging on about since 2010, but it'll do me, my needs are few, as are those of the missus - eat and pay the bills will do for us.
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#19 Re: 2A3 "Pink SET" Amp Rebuild.
Cheers Steve,
I'll give you a ring, early on this week to sort something.
The Pink SET is now stripped out and ready for its luxury fettle...but no more today.
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#20 Re: 2A3 "Pink SET" Amp Rebuild.
You ladies doth protest too much methinks
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#21 Re: 2A3 "Pink SET" Amp Rebuild.
Snigger...
Philosophers have only interpreted the world - the point, however, is to change it. No it isn't ... maybe we should leave it alone for a while.
#22 Re: 2A3 "Pink SET" Amp Rebuild.
Oi!
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#23 Re: 2A3 "Pink SET" Amp Rebuild.
It's taken me most of this week to get an encapsulated 6V transformer, mounted, to supply the DC modules for the 2A3 filaments. Need to focus
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#24 Re: 2A3 "Pink SET" Amp Rebuild.
At long last, the DC filament modules are mounted and powered up from seperate LT transformer windings:
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#25 Re: 2A3 "Pink SET" Amp Rebuild.
2A3-40s plugged in and modules adjusted for 2.5V:
DC module heatsinks, vent through holes on the topside of the chassis.
DC module heatsinks, vent through holes on the topside of the chassis.
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#26 Re: 2A3 "Pink SET" Amp Rebuild.
One channel is wired:
Tagstrips make the job much easier as there's no cramming of multiple component leads onto valve tags not man enough to take the pressure. I've done more dry joints and broken more tags than I've had hot dinners, through not using tagstrips, and yes, with tagstrips, there are more solder joints, but it's better to have a larger number of high quality joints than it is to have fewer joints of low quality.
The strips in this amp are ones I haven't used before. They have turned out to be an excellent investment.
Tagstrips make the job much easier as there's no cramming of multiple component leads onto valve tags not man enough to take the pressure. I've done more dry joints and broken more tags than I've had hot dinners, through not using tagstrips, and yes, with tagstrips, there are more solder joints, but it's better to have a larger number of high quality joints than it is to have fewer joints of low quality.
The strips in this amp are ones I haven't used before. They have turned out to be an excellent investment.
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#27 Re: 2A3 "Pink SET" Amp Rebuild.
Yum yum !
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#28 Re: 2A3 "Pink SET" Amp Rebuild.
Where did you get the tagstrip from Steve?
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#29 Re: 2A3 "Pink SET" Amp Rebuild.
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#30 Re: 2A3 "Pink SET" Amp Rebuild.
mmm I was going to say shoddy, but on reflection I don't think that's the correct word...
a proper 2a3:
btw: how did you manage to attach a pic that was 1.1 mB?
a proper 2a3:
btw: how did you manage to attach a pic that was 1.1 mB?
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