Build progress of two DINO 962 tube amps

[novosibir]

As already said in another thread, I'm now starting exactly at the beginning of 2026 with the build of 2 DINO 962 tube amps for members of this board.

Currently it is January 1st of the new year 3:30 am here in good ol' Germany, and since I don't drink alcohol, I'm usually still fit at this time.

So I have taken the two chassis from the shelf, as I get them from my blacksmith still with the protective foil to avoid scratches on the surfaces.

The chassis are made of 1.5 mm thick brushed stainless steel and the holes are laser-cut:

The chassis that can be seen on the left in the photos is not intended for the build of an amp, but serves as a measurement template to check and compare the bore diameters as well as their X & Y positions of the received chassis.

Stay tuned!

 

[novosibir]

Well, 24 hours later a first result.

Today was a holiday like everywhere else in the world, but since I don't feel building my amps as work, I used most of the day to get ahead.

Well without protective foil, the chassis have a completely different charm and the brightly shiny surface after peeling off the foil will darken into an elegant, discreet anthracite over the course of one to two years.

Some assembly work has also already been done. All stand offs for the three boards and some smaller components have already found their places.

If you look a little closer, you can see that I have inserted retraction nuts into the chassis to attach the transformers, the filter can caps and the preamp tube sockets. The assembly of these components is therefore not done with loose nuts, but are simply screwed on from above without fiddling with loose nuts - of course with stainless steel screws.

I had never seen this solution in any other amp before, with one exception, Dumble amps.

Stay tuned!