Alamo Amp Revisited - Drawing up the Layout

[Lonely Raven]

Hey all,

A few months ago I scooped up a '54 Alamo amp that was touted as being a "tweed champ killer" and one of those that the good Rev Billy G collects.

Anywho, the amp showed up with a blown speaker and shot tubes...barely working. Add to that, I was suddenly needing to move both my job and where I live...in 8 weeks!! So I wasn't able to do any work on the amp, draw up schemo or layout.

Now that I'm settled into the new house, job, and all that, I'm revisiting this amp. I'm going to retube it, send off the speaker to Ted Weber to recone, and start drawing up the layout.

My immediate question is, what program/method is best for me to use to draw up the Layout? My goal is to share this amp with others so it doesn't dissapear from the landscape into collectors closets to be forgotten, and maybe build a good clone for my Dad.

So what program would be easiest to draw up the layout? And once that's done, anyone care to help me with the schematic? I think I can remember my way around a schematic, but I've not drawn one since electronics class in HS...and that was many blue moons ago.

[drhulsey]

Eric,
I used ConceptDraw (Mac), but Visio(PC) is also good. ConceptDraw had libraries of symbols and shapes, which was nice. You can do it with any drawing program. In a regular drawing program, you may have to make your own library of symbols. There are downloadable libraries on the web.

PS: I hope the move is going well It's grillin' time

[Lonely Raven]

Eric,
I used ConceptDraw (Mac), but Visio(PC) is also good. ConceptDraw had libraries of symbols and shapes, which was nice. You can do it with any drawing program. In a regular drawing program, you may have to make your own library of symbols. There are downloadable libraries on the web.

I think that's mostly what I was looking for...was "objects" I could cut and paste into the layout rather than trying to draw out caps and resistors and whatnot. Got any good links for the libraries? I'll start searching myself over the weekend, but if anyone has any cool libraries of objects, share them!

[skyboltone]

Eric,
I used ConceptDraw (Mac), but Visio(PC) is also good. ConceptDraw had libraries of symbols and shapes, which was nice. You can do it with any drawing program. In a regular drawing program, you may have to make your own library of symbols. There are downloadable libraries on the web.

I think that's mostly what I was looking for...was "objects" I could cut and paste into the layout rather than trying to draw out caps and resistors and whatnot. Got any good links for the libraries? I'll start searching myself over the weekend, but if anyone has any cool libraries of objects, share them!

PM me with an e-mail addy. I'll send what I've got for Viseo. But once you buy Viseo you can import and tear apart one of Normsters masterpiece layouts and you'll have everything you need in superb detail. Viseo does have a steep learning curve though. I wish I had an employer to pay me to learn it.....I'd know it by now.

Dan

[skyboltone]

grrrrrrrrrrr