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Offline punkykatt

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5C1 Champ in a 5F1 wraper
« on: December 22, 2023, 09:38:23 pm »
Now that my wife and I spend our summers at our lake cottage in Connecticut, I needed a small practice amp other than the plastic Marshall 9v jobber
I have been using. Went through my stash of parts and found a bunch of metal case 6SJ7`s, some NOS 6V6GT`s and 5Y3GT`s, an 8" Weber Blue Pup, and an Allen T0-11 output tranny.  Grill cloth from a thrown out stereo speaker and an old amp handle and cabinet corners. Ordered a 5F1 chassis and a power transformer. Got my dove tail jig out and went to work. This little amp sound great. More pics to come.

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Re: 5C1 Champ in a 5F1 wraper
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2023, 09:40:52 pm »
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Re: 5C1 Champ in a 5F1 wraper
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2023, 01:04:36 am »
Fine, nice job 👍

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Re: 5C1 Champ in a 5F1 wraper
« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2023, 09:17:34 am »
Looks great & I really admire the actual redeployment of your spare parts!

I often aspire to do that, but always end up adding this new & that new, & the re-use part of it doesn't really happen.

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Re: 5C1 Champ in a 5F1 wraper
« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2023, 11:14:58 am »
Great Job, I like it!

I like your idea of marking those orange drops with a permanent marker, I can SEE those values:>) Good reason to buy orange drops because it impossible to do that on the White Mallory 150's that is almost impossible for me to read. I use to could read the yellow ones
« Last Edit: December 23, 2023, 11:26:45 am by Platefire »
On the right track now<><

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Re: 5C1 Champ in a 5F1 wraper
« Reply #5 on: December 24, 2023, 11:22:36 am »
Thanks for the complements Guy`s.  Merry Christmas everyone!!!

 


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