Tube Amp Archive

I've found a fix by relocating lead dress. I put the suppressor grid stoppers right on the socket pins (no change) I re-routed the plate leads to get an extra inch or two to move them at the OT and while de soldering I shortened the parallel wire across the plates. I think that shortening the plate ...

[IMG:1024:682]http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z265/kersanov/Rocket/100_8097.jpg[/img] Too much wire !!! :shock: :) Yes its a rats nest and I veered well away from the documented layout. I was trying the Matchless layout with individual heater feeds and ht and earth runs from and to each nodes fi...

Here are some pics of the amp, I have been on a point to point phase last year or so. Since these pics were taken i added a zener diode on the centre tap of the HT to get about 60 volts off the vox iron. Also added a fan as before the zener I had a vvr which got really hot along with some really hot...

Reading up on other posts I came across the comments of OT primaries too close to secondaries and when I started chopsticking the plate leads it seems to have been the culprit. The secondaries were about an inch next to the primaries at the run out of the OT and if I stretched them as far away as po...

Hi, I built a Rocket into a large chassis about twelve months ago and all has been good but I have found that with volume on 60% and treble 60% and Cut at 0% it produces a squeal through the speaker. Input jack shorted. Moving the bass doesn't change problem. I had a Master Volume with Cut attached ...