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It took me well over two years to actually finish this thing, but I finally got it done. When I first bought the "kit" from Weber it turned out to be a pre-prototype tag board that didn't have all of the eyelets in it, or a layout that Jeff Gehring (circuit designer) felt would work.
I got part way through it and then got sidetracked for a long time with work and having a couple of surgeries. I finally decided that I had to finish it and bought a new eyelet board.
They had since moved all of the filter caps and rectifier parts onto the tag board so I had to cut part of the board off and I left my original set-up in place, with a doghouse for the caps and a homemade tag board mounted to the end of the chassis for the SS rectifier. I ordered all new caps and resistors from Tonecraft so I didn't have to strip the old card and built the new circuit board.
This one was pretty tough as there were a lot of under the board connections and not a lot of space up top using Orange Drops instead of the tubular caps that come with the Weber kit but it ended up working perfectly on the first power up. The only thing I'm disappointed in is that I didn't have an easy way (not enough hands or room) to attach all of my ground wires to the brass plate so I ended up using a ground buss wire on the back of the pots. My soldering was a bit sloppy on those so it could have looked better. Two of the pots were also only available from Weber and they were mismatched so I had to use washers to shim them so they stuck out the same distance in front. That part of the build could have looked a bit neater.
The Revibe sounds great. I'm still experimenting with tubes (6K6 and 6V6) and I need a better pan than the Accutronics. I've plugged the pan from my 67 PR into this and the Princeton's two-spring pan actually sounds a bit better than the newer production Accutronics three-spring pan that I bought when I started the project.
http://s78.photobucket.com/albums/j1...t=DSC01916.jpg
I got part way through it and then got sidetracked for a long time with work and having a couple of surgeries. I finally decided that I had to finish it and bought a new eyelet board.
They had since moved all of the filter caps and rectifier parts onto the tag board so I had to cut part of the board off and I left my original set-up in place, with a doghouse for the caps and a homemade tag board mounted to the end of the chassis for the SS rectifier. I ordered all new caps and resistors from Tonecraft so I didn't have to strip the old card and built the new circuit board.
This one was pretty tough as there were a lot of under the board connections and not a lot of space up top using Orange Drops instead of the tubular caps that come with the Weber kit but it ended up working perfectly on the first power up. The only thing I'm disappointed in is that I didn't have an easy way (not enough hands or room) to attach all of my ground wires to the brass plate so I ended up using a ground buss wire on the back of the pots. My soldering was a bit sloppy on those so it could have looked better. Two of the pots were also only available from Weber and they were mismatched so I had to use washers to shim them so they stuck out the same distance in front. That part of the build could have looked a bit neater.
The Revibe sounds great. I'm still experimenting with tubes (6K6 and 6V6) and I need a better pan than the Accutronics. I've plugged the pan from my 67 PR into this and the Princeton's two-spring pan actually sounds a bit better than the newer production Accutronics three-spring pan that I bought when I started the project.
http://s78.photobucket.com/albums/j1...t=DSC01916.jpg
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