Dumble for sale on Ebay

[ic-racer]

My God, all the jack and switch mounting nuts are oriented the same!!

Now that is a cool observation! I went back and checked on pictures of other 90s amps I have and... they all seem to have the same characteristic. Not other amps, as 124 for example.

Gil

Not 124??


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[brownnote]

I didn't save all the pix (mainly becasue there wasn't much there to look at) happened to have the ebay page up on my browser before it was deleted and this was the pic showing:
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[martin manning]

My God, all the jack and switch mounting nuts are oriented the same!!

I think someone previously observed that the nuts on the front panel toggle switches have been positioned "in phase."

Another fine example of this type of obsessive behavior can be seen on a certain record-setting airplane built in the 1930's. The screws holding the sheet metal wing fillets to the fuselage, hundreds of them, have their (straight) driver slots aligned with the local airflow, presumably to reduce drag. This aircraft is Howard Hughs' H1, currently residing in the NASM at the Smithsonian.

MPM

[Structo]

Heheheh, that reminds me of an article I read years ago about a certain Russian jet fighter aircraft.
They used common alloys in the construction and still used rivets in some places to attach the skin to the airframe.

It was criticized as being very primitive in the way it was constructed when compared to our top fighter that used exotic alloys and super adhesives to hold the skin on the airframe.

Then a aeronautical engineer spoke up and proclaimed that the Russian designers were geniuses.

He stated that the Russian engineers only placed the rivets in areas where they didn't affect the airflow or aerodynamics.

And that the rivets made it possible to repair those areas without much trouble.
The price difference between our fighter and theirs was astounding.

Ours with all the exotic alloys and super duper electronics were somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 million a copy while the Russian jet coast less than 1 million, therefore they could build three times as many fighters as us and that they performed just about as good in the skies.

Of course the US has always had better technology in the electronics area as far as the military goes but the Russians always felt that a war can be won by sheer numbers.

[UltraHookedOnPhonix]

The other one had a fatter transformer bells and there was an even bigger gap between the right side bell and the cores.

I think you're right heisthl. This one looks like a twin reverb OT or something...

[tubedogsmith]

Well, I went back and reoriented all the nuts on the front and back of the chassis' I've built and finally, I sound like Robben Ford!!!

[heisthl]

Well, I went back and reoriented all the nuts on the front and back of the chassis' I've built and finally, I sound like Robben Ford!!!

This may be the final step to achieve amp nirvana and illustrates the value of this forum. Don't forget the other "must do" items like color of goo and brand of solder. all of these are contibuting factors.