New here. Name is Bob, from the Pocono's in PA. Lots of info here so i joined, good reason. Building tube amps from scratch, from film projector amps, PA, heads, etc, guitars, pedals, tube repairs, mods, you know how it goes. It varies, a few scratch made amps this summer and a Esquire, now it's pedal time. Rangemaster type, so been sorting through transistors last few days. Sorted tubes all summer, (6000), now semi inventoried.
Here come the stories. Ok, it started way back when, late 60's as a kid helping my dad. He had a tv shop so tubes, books, test equipment was always around. Building Heathkits. He used to frequent a army surplus place in Wilkes-Barre PA. and always bring home stuff. Circuit cards, tubes, military radios, odd things like a few thousand 33 ohm resistors, etc.etc. I was building fuzz pedals from Rca books before i got my drivers license back in 78.
Ok, stuff collected dust for 20-30 years, now last few i have finished the house projects and getting back in old hobbies. Been doing lots of tube repairs and mods for friends and customers, winding hundred or so pickups, other musical related things.
Few pictures below, note the messy workbench in basement, also have amps piled high in garage and extra bedroom, also wood working equipment as i want to start building my own cabinets, i buy tweed or unfinished cabinets from Mergili or TRM. Member over on the Agile guitar forum and visit it daily, nice bunch of fellows.
B&K transistor analyzer. Been using this but hard to read the small meter for exact gains and leakages. Some times matches the gain reading on my 2 Micronta bench meters, sometimes doesn't match. I have a DCA55 on order to see how that works. I don't like the RG geofx setup, too lazy to build it? If it's the standard everyone uses, i will build one.
Next up, some of the hundreds of trannys, some NOS or boxed, all mostly pulls from 1960-1970? Me or my dad or my sisters actually unsoldered these from military boards or got them at ham fests or wherever. I had bunches of new i sold to Rich at Monsterpiece fuzz some years back. Great guy, great pedals.
Trying to sort them out but now waiting on the DCA55 from Newark ($48), great price, i hope it's not obsolete or something.
Some of the capacitor and resistor hoard,new and old, 3 or 4 HP distortion analyzers (may be selling a few as i have another i use), some guitars.
Some of the real old transistors, hand etched rca's, lots of mil numbers to cross, i have boxes of radio-tv books and manf. data books, have been boxed since we moved here 12 years ago, have to dig them out as some of these tranny numbers don't cross on the web.
That's all for now, hope i didn't go past the newbie word count limit or something. Will post some old amp pictures when i get some time, pre-war Supro, few premiers, 59' champ i picked up this summer.
Here come the stories. Ok, it started way back when, late 60's as a kid helping my dad. He had a tv shop so tubes, books, test equipment was always around. Building Heathkits. He used to frequent a army surplus place in Wilkes-Barre PA. and always bring home stuff. Circuit cards, tubes, military radios, odd things like a few thousand 33 ohm resistors, etc.etc. I was building fuzz pedals from Rca books before i got my drivers license back in 78.
Ok, stuff collected dust for 20-30 years, now last few i have finished the house projects and getting back in old hobbies. Been doing lots of tube repairs and mods for friends and customers, winding hundred or so pickups, other musical related things.
Few pictures below, note the messy workbench in basement, also have amps piled high in garage and extra bedroom, also wood working equipment as i want to start building my own cabinets, i buy tweed or unfinished cabinets from Mergili or TRM. Member over on the Agile guitar forum and visit it daily, nice bunch of fellows.
B&K transistor analyzer. Been using this but hard to read the small meter for exact gains and leakages. Some times matches the gain reading on my 2 Micronta bench meters, sometimes doesn't match. I have a DCA55 on order to see how that works. I don't like the RG geofx setup, too lazy to build it? If it's the standard everyone uses, i will build one.
Next up, some of the hundreds of trannys, some NOS or boxed, all mostly pulls from 1960-1970? Me or my dad or my sisters actually unsoldered these from military boards or got them at ham fests or wherever. I had bunches of new i sold to Rich at Monsterpiece fuzz some years back. Great guy, great pedals.
Trying to sort them out but now waiting on the DCA55 from Newark ($48), great price, i hope it's not obsolete or something.
Some of the capacitor and resistor hoard,new and old, 3 or 4 HP distortion analyzers (may be selling a few as i have another i use), some guitars.
Some of the real old transistors, hand etched rca's, lots of mil numbers to cross, i have boxes of radio-tv books and manf. data books, have been boxed since we moved here 12 years ago, have to dig them out as some of these tranny numbers don't cross on the web.
That's all for now, hope i didn't go past the newbie word count limit or something. Will post some old amp pictures when i get some time, pre-war Supro, few premiers, 59' champ i picked up this summer.