Hi everyone
So I'm this close to picking up an empty Dynacord Twen that's been raided for tubes and some components. It still has the original alnico speaker and the transformers, though. If the transformers work, it's a very good price, and even if they don't, just the cabinet and chassis would cost me more than three times what I'd pay at say TubeTown. I also like the fact that it's vintage, has some history and wear.
Schematic of the Twen:
https://manualmachine.com/html/10/1019/1019c35bf38da312260d6803825a98238efd389cd89c22a0286d35e48f5dcacf/img-1-WDPVa7kjAK.pngAnyways, the Twen is said to be close to a brownface Princeton. The transformers are thus made for a pair of 6v6 push-pull for output, two 12ax7 (ECC83) - one for the preamp and one for the split-load PI and tremolo respectively.
Since most guts have been ripped out, I thought I might as well start over.
I was in the middle of making a Rob Robinette Blackvibe (
https://robrobinette.com/RR763_BLACKVIBE.htm) on a turretboard, anyway, when I eyed this one and thought it'd be a perfect donor.
The BlackVibe is a blackface Vibroverb (I'm making it with 6v6's for a more Deluxe-ish amount of watts), but without reverb or tremolo for simplicity/less components. So while it doen't need tubes for the effects, it's a long tailed pair PI and thus need to use the two halves of the 12AT7 for that.
First two questions:
Can I simply just use the one half of the tube that the Twen uses on the tremolo to instead make the LTP? Will the transformers work for the Blackvibe circuit, too, assuming everything's in order?
Next question: Space. The chassis is quite small on the Twen. How do you suggest I build it?
I had already mounted the components on a turretboard, but I doubt it'll fit in there:


As I'm a first time amp builder, I honestly want to a avoid rat's nest like in the original:

and instead follow Rob Robinette's layout as closely...