Kkbubar
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I’ve been shopping around for a while now for a tube amp I could afford. I noticed that on the auction site that there were these rebuild/repurposed console amps. So having worked in the electrical field doing industrial controls for the last 40ish years of my life I thought maybe I could do this. So shopping shifted from finding a amp to buy to finding one to rebuild.
Enter a console at a local antique shop that “makes noise when plugged in but nothing works”. $20 later I owen a 8600-20, now to the inter web for free information on this unit. This site called AudioKarma has a couple on schematics that match what I have on the bench. A couple of evenings later I stumble on this thread where a gentleman named Dave has walked though my little project amp and not only rebuilt it but redesigned the thing to work much better in today’s electrical environment. And he has explained every change in detail as well as providing a clear schematic of these mods.
Amp on the bench,$150 of stuff in mail and a guy who spent the early years of his career removing old tube based process gear and replacing it with SS. Here we go.
Enter a console at a local antique shop that “makes noise when plugged in but nothing works”. $20 later I owen a 8600-20, now to the inter web for free information on this unit. This site called AudioKarma has a couple on schematics that match what I have on the bench. A couple of evenings later I stumble on this thread where a gentleman named Dave has walked though my little project amp and not only rebuilt it but redesigned the thing to work much better in today’s electrical environment. And he has explained every change in detail as well as providing a clear schematic of these mods.
Amp on the bench,$150 of stuff in mail and a guy who spent the early years of his career removing old tube based process gear and replacing it with SS. Here we go.