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Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 2:34 pm
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As a new poster I just want to say thanks to all who worked to get this forum going and a thanks to all who participate. These are a great help to those of us who are attempting to learn new things later in life. I was a welder for 30 years - now it's time to work on tube amps! My welding/blueprint reading skills transferred surprisingly over to solder/schematic reading skills without too much difficulty. But, eyes are bad, body is shot, hands shake, a perfect combination for working on small parts with high voltage! Ha!

Thanks again to all for a great forum.


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Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 3:19 pm
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upnorth wrote:
My welding/blueprint reading skills transferred surprisingly over to solder/schematic reading skills without too much difficulty. But, eyes are bad, body is shot, hands shake, a perfect combination for working on small parts with high voltage! Ha!


Time to build an amp. :wink:

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Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 3:34 pm
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bluesky636 wrote:
upnorth wrote:
My welding/blueprint reading skills transferred surprisingly over to solder/schematic reading skills without too much difficulty. But, eyes are bad, body is shot, hands shake, a perfect combination for working on small parts with high voltage! Ha!


Time to build an amp. :wink:


Or go to med school and earn an MD degree then get a job at the Mayo Clinic as a neurosurgeon.

:mrgreen:

Welcome to the forum.

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Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 5:10 pm
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Welcome to the Forum Up North, I'm from almost up north myself in Newfoundland Canada.I have Raynaud's Syndrome-which is an extreme sensitivity of the hands to cold or even cool temps.I also have carpal tunnel and an as of yet undiagnosed neuro-muscular disorder. My hands often shake uncontrollably so you have company in the shakey hands category,but one good thing comes from this-I have a great hand vibrato technique.

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Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 5:50 pm
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I have built a couple tweeds, a Deluxe and a Champ, and another "thing" I'd call it, out of a Bogen PA with a single 7868 and 12AX7. Kind of fun to mess with the negative feedback, and change caps and resistors on that last one. I think I really need to build a Princeton Reverb (AA1164) with a 66' C12NA I've been saving. Or maybe a Vibroverb (AB763) with a couple of alnico gold 10's? Unfortunately, I don't have two of those I've been saving.

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Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 7:00 pm
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upnorth wrote:
I have built a couple tweeds, a Deluxe and a Champ, and another "thing" I'd call it, out of a Bogen PA with a single 7868 and 12AX7. Kind of fun to mess with the negative feedback, and change caps and resistors on that last one. I think I really need to build a Princeton Reverb (AA1164) with a 66' C12NA I've been saving. Or maybe a Vibroverb (AB763) with a couple of alnico gold 10's? Unfortunately, I don't have two of those I've been saving.

Thanks again.


You can read my amp build threads here:

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Welcome. Molten metal is molten metal. :)


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Welcome aboard - how far are you 'up north' ?

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Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2013 8:10 am
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I'm starting to feel like a dummy for choosing "up north". I'm only in Northern Minn., about 80 miles from the Canadian border. There's many closer to the pole than me!

Bill, liked your thread on your Bassman build. Great Job. You're a engineer? You're the guy who had me doing a 4" vertical tig weld through a 3" hole! Just kidding. I had a chassis rattle problem on my Tweed Deluxe build and it ended up being the speaker jack. Switchcraft everything too. No matter how much I tightened the connection, not the nut but the inner parts, it still rattled. I ended up having to insulate between the chassis and cab. Drove me nuts on certain notes. Did the crackle ever come back?

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I'm at 52 degrees north, do I win a prize?

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GilgaFrank wrote:
I'm at 52 degrees north, do I win a prize?


I'm 52.2897 degrees north. Gotcha beat!

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No you haven't, I checked and I'm really 53.487499 degrees north!

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Upnorth, "Thanks", glad to have you aboard. I wonder if they've brought a Stratocaster aboard a shuttle or would it cause a fire?
"I'm only in Northern Minn., about 80 miles from the Canadian border." You are north, Brrrr, I'm in Chicagoland, sub-tropics lol.

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Upnorth, "Thanks", glad to have you aboard. I wonder if they've brought a Stratocaster aboard a shuttle or would it cause a fire?
"I'm only in Northern Minn., about 80 miles from the Canadian border." You are north, Brrrr, I'm in Chicagoland, sub-tropics lol.


Likewise, welcome to the unruly flock, uppie.
Body: You're jesting, but I lived the first two generations of my life between 60 and 70 degrees North. Then I moved to New England, and found that people here think they're up North, while I feel like I'm on an extended vacation to the South.
They can grow peaches here, and there's a distinct lack of reindeer (or, judging by holiday displays, even basic knowledge of what they look like). So to me, it will always be the South.
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