45/100 step by step

frenchie · Post by **frenchie** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:57 pm

..with it's vintage white 45/100 head case (vox vents!!) that st august will make for me ...me either myfoot

thousandshirts · Post by **thousandshirts** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:27 am

frenchie wrote:..with it's vintage white 45/100 head case (vox vents!!)

Ahh, the Franc Blanc!

(that's my Sauvignon Blanc and Cabernet Franc joke--what if they didn't call the offspring of these two grapes Cabernet Sauvignon, but rather. . .Franc Blanc?!?)

frenchie · Post by **frenchie** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:08 am

you wan't that i send you one or two bottles ????

frenchie · Post by **frenchie** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 3:36 pm

just got my preamp tubes today ...electro-harmonics 12AX7EH ...no microphonics , cheap (i was on a budjet) , durable ...i already had them in a valveking an they sound very good ...i feared tung sols because of the problems they seem to have ....damn ..getting the different parts is alike a full time job when you ain't got the money to buy everything at the same time

frenchie · Post by **frenchie** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 12:31 pm

little test today to see if the spacement of the kt 66s is good :

looks like the old ones ....

frenchie · Post by **frenchie** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:26 am

ouch this tube will probably be a little too much close from the PT

i saw this putting the bracket on the top

i hope the tube won't vibrate too much

wdelaney72 · Post by **wdelaney72** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:47 am

Just the way it it is, Frenchie. My 45/100 build is the same... but it works!

frenchie · Post by **frenchie** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 9:28 am

i hope so ...and above that by the chassis dimentions themsleves you cannot place everything on other than ...... VERY TIGHT ! I thought about drifting the tubes a little more to the backplate but if i did so , with the birch backpanel screwed hot tubes would have burned the tolex plys .. I didn't have the choice.....

frenchie · Post by **frenchie** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:57 pm

ok , now if finished (at last my polishing job on the chassis ....it turned out pretty well , but without a buffer wheel it was a .....fuckin' .........pita ....
see the job

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S.Marshall · Post by **S.Marshall** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:03 pm

Looks good Ben! Now put it together and let us hear it!

frenchie · Post by **frenchie** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:09 pm

S.Marshall wrote:Looks good Ben! Now put it together and let us hear it!

thank you steve ....yeah i can't wait to put it together too , still waiting for money , i cannot afford the rest of the parts for the moment , but finish line is closer than it ever been

frenchie · Post by **frenchie** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 2:31 pm

ok took a little time to assemble the whole thing to see if my mesurements were good , and a little issue came to my eyes .....the orange indicator lamp is too long and come over one of the recifier diode

....must i ;
->try a red indicator lamp with the blue wires , which one is probably shorter ? ,or
-> destack the turret of the power board and stack another to have a slant diode ?
take a look ;

frenchie · Post by **frenchie** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:23 pm

good news .....i finally got my PT

i still need a backpanel though before beginning my wiring job .... but now it looks like a real amp

S.Marshall · Post by **S.Marshall** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 10:21 pm

Looking good Ben! The red lamps are shorter but the amber lamp looks better. For this amp anyway IMO. I wouldn't slant the diode. Is there room to move the board over a space or something? It looks like you could make the lamp fall between the cap and the diode. Hard to tell from the pic though. I was going to get an amber and try to cut away that extra plastic. Haven't got around to trying that though. There's always a way.

thousandshirts · Post by **thousandshirts** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:47 pm

The amp, it is awesome, Monsieur Frenchie.

When you add the power transformer to the 45.100 it sure gets HEAVY. Mon dieu!

Soon you will be done! How cool is that!

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