From Scratch Amp Building Chronicle - 6/13/10 UPDATED!!

[Anonymous]

Today, I wired in the main board for good. To do this, I had to do some work to solder the choke, the OT, the filter cap under the board and a PT wire to the board. You can see some of those connections on the board. I also wired in the 6V AC PT for the heaters. I finished all the ON/OFF, filter cap, etc wiring on the right side of the amp. Shrink wrapped and twist tied the remaining PT wired to neaten things up. Also soldered and twist tied off all the wiring from the board to the filter caps, grounds, On/Off, etc. Looks decent... Here are a couple pictures of that work. The long wires you see hanging around go to the XLR that goes to the footswitch. Haven't wired that yet...:

Also started wiring the preamp section of the main board to the preamp tubes. I would have finished this section today, but I ran out of 100K resistors I'll need to order tomorrow. You can see the shielded wire with 4.7K resistor soldered, shrink-wrapped and the assembly soldered to pin 2 of V1:

I also wired the inputs. You can see a shielded wire coming from the inputs that'll go to the board:

And here is the whole thing where I am today:

I should be able to finish the amp next Sunday!

Steve

 

[Vrad]

Looks awesome Steve! Can't wait to hear it!

 

[tweed]

Holy crap Steve!! What a great job! Seriously can't wait to hear this thing!!!

You are seriously fueling my amp kit gas and I may have to get rid of my DSL to start this journey.

 

[tonmazz]

Looks great, cant wait to hear the finished product.

 

[Anonymous]

Looks awesome Steve! Can't wait to hear it!

Looks great, cant wait to hear the finished product.

Thanks guys - you have no idea how gratifying it is to be getting towards the end of the initial build and into troubleshooting/tweaking. Its been a long road...

Steve

 

[Anonymous]

Holy crap Steve!! What a great job! Seriously can't wait to hear this thing!!!

You are seriously fueling my amp kit gas and I may have to get rid of my DSL to start this journey.

Thanks man - I really think you'll enjoy this if you take the plunge!

Steve

 

[Vrad]

Looks awesome Steve! Can't wait to hear it!

Looks great, cant wait to hear the finished product.

Thanks guys - you have no idea how gratifying it is to be getting towards the end of the initial build and into troubleshooting/tweaking. Its been a long road...

Steve

Oh I have some idea...

 

[Anonymous]

Looks awesome Steve! Can't wait to hear it!

Looks great, cant wait to hear the finished product.

Thanks guys - you have no idea how gratifying it is to be getting towards the end of the initial build and into troubleshooting/tweaking. Its been a long road...

Steve

Oh I have some idea...

Yeah, I guess you do.

Steve

 

[Anonymous]

Looks awesome Steve! Can't wait to hear it!

Looks great, cant wait to hear the finished product.

Thanks guys - you have no idea how gratifying it is to be getting towards the end of the initial build and into troubleshooting/tweaking. Its been a long road...

Steve

Oh I have some idea...

Yeah, I guess you do.

Steve

are you going to be offering a "secret handshake" to get into the Henning Brotherhood?

I believe you already know it.

Steve

 

[ratter]

Looking great!!!

 

[Anonymous]

Looks awesome Steve! Can't wait to hear it!

Looks great, cant wait to hear the finished product.

Thanks guys - you have no idea how gratifying it is to be getting towards the end of the initial build and into troubleshooting/tweaking. Its been a long road...

Steve

Oh I have some idea...

Yeah, I guess you do.

Steve

are you going to be offering a "secret handshake" to get into the Henning Brotherhood?

I believe you already know it.

Steve

looks like I'm first in line then, we'll start our own brotherhood and I don't want you cummunicating with anyone. I'll cummunicate the whereaboutz of everyones ampz via here or elsewhere on the netz, I'll make up shitz too. just need to make a few clipz so everyone getz jonezing for the Henningz, we'll only let certain dudez take cutz that is if they kiss our azzes enough.

Steve

 

[tweed]

looks like I'm first in line then, we'll start our own brotherhood and I don't want you cummunicating with anyone. I'll cummunicate the whereaboutz of everyones ampz via here or elsewhere on the netz, I'll make up shitz too. just need to make a few clipz so everyone getz jonezing for the Henningz, we'll only let certain dudez take cutz that is if they kiss our azzes enough.

That's all well and good, but have you passed the NAMM Blood Mary Breakfast test yet?

 

[Anonymous]

looks like I'm first in line then, we'll start our own brotherhood and I don't want you cummunicating with anyone. I'll cummunicate the whereaboutz of everyones ampz via here or elsewhere on the netz, I'll make up shitz too. just need to make a few clipz so everyone getz jonezing for the Henningz, we'll only let certain dudez take cutz that is if they kiss our azzes enough.

That's all well and good, but have you passed the NAMM Blood Mary Breakfast test yet?

I'd say I failed that test miserably...

Steve

 

[Vrad]

Looks awesome Steve! Can't wait to hear it!

Looks great, cant wait to hear the finished product.

Thanks guys - you have no idea how gratifying it is to be getting towards the end of the initial build and into troubleshooting/tweaking. Its been a long road...

Steve

Oh I have some idea...

Yeah, I guess you do.

Steve

are you going to be offering a "secret handshake" to get into the Henning Brotherhood?

Yup... then I'm gonna take people's money and hold their amp for 10 years. LOL!

 

[tweed]

looks like I'm first in line then, we'll start our own brotherhood and I don't want you cummunicating with anyone. I'll cummunicate the whereaboutz of everyones ampz via here or elsewhere on the netz, I'll make up shitz too. just need to make a few clipz so everyone getz jonezing for the Henningz, we'll only let certain dudez take cutz that is if they kiss our azzes enough.

That's all well and good, but have you passed the NAMM Blood Mary Breakfast test yet?

I'd say I failed that test miserably...

Steve

*cough* bullshit *cough*

Well my DSL 50 is fixed, now to move on to the Vplexi and try to trouble shoot that one. I get sound out of it but barely, even with the PPIMV all the way up. Wonder if something is touching together somewhere that shouldn't be.

Then it's off to figure out how to score a metroamp 100wMV kit

 

[stephen sawall]

Looking forward to the clips .... this whole idea is great. Really looking forward to seeing this whole thing come alive.

 

[* velcro-fly *]

Super fricken cool man

Its looking like a real amp now, that has to be satisfying in itself. I started to build a Ceriatone Wreck kit and lost interest about 1 day into it - I can really appreciate the work you've put into this.

 

[tweed]

I'm bumping this because I am obessed with building/modding/readingabout/drooling over amp designs. Yeah I know, I need help.

Are you done yet?

 

[Death by Uberschall]

This is taking a loooooong time!!


I mean really, Camerons are shipping, the artic ice shelf is growing, Al Gore is in hiding,..........

 

[Anonymous]

I'm bumping this because I am obessed with building/modding/readingabout/drooling over amp designs. Yeah I know, I need help.

Are you done yet?

Still waiting for some resistors...

Steve