[sdiy] Satisfying DIY

[harrybissell]

HAH... silly American

You fall in our nefarious TRAP !!!

so no CAR payment, eh ???

we fix you GOOD !!!

we make domestic gas prices go up uP UP !!!

Take your money long time, Joe...

H^) harry  (secret member NWO)

(I avoided mentioning HOW we raised those prices... that exercise is
left to the
individual :^)   Maybe I should go into POLITICS ???

"If elected I will slash taxes, raise per-capita income... and instruct
NASA that
in ten years, we will have a quiet, reliable BBD !!!"

Tim Ressel wrote:

> Tom,
>
> I have the exact same story, except it is a 1971 Chevy
> pickup. Can you say 'no car payments'?  I figure the
> $300/month payments i was making will keep
> "Truckasaurus" (fossilized transportation) in upgrades
> and repairs forever, with cash left over. I do most of
> the work myself. It is lots of fun, and save Big Moola
> come repair time.
>
> Synth-DIY tie-in? Oh, well, I carry my synth gear in
> it... :-)
>
> --TimR
>
> --- Tom Arnold <xyzzy at sysabend.org> wrote:
>
> > While not 100% sdiy related ( except that I listen
> > to my music on it ), I
> > finished rebuilding my Dynaco ST120 amp finally.  I
> > have another one to
> > finish up which I'll do tonight after I finish my
> > 3031 case project...
> >
> > I finally did locate some diodes with the proper
> > voltage drop.  I couldnt
> > find any large caps to fit the space of the original
> > power supply caps, so I
> > wound up getting modern snap-in's and making PVC
> > rings that fit the mounts,
> > and gluing the new caps into the rings with
> > silicone.  I replaced every
> > electrolytic cap, every chunk of silicon, and the
> > two tant's ( with ones with
> > 3 times the original voltage rating... ).  Also
> > replaced ( and uprated )
> > every 2watt or larger resistor and made sure that
> > any previously warm
> > resistor or diode was now properly spaced off the
> > board. One thing that was
> > harder then I expected was finding good transistors.
> >  The MOSFETs I needed
> > for the power supply ( 2SK1058's ) are tricky to
> > find to put it mildly, and
> > decent high voltage TO3 case outputs are a little on
> > the scarse side these
> > days.  Once I found a suitable part, I did find
> > multiple manufacturers, it
> > was just hard finding a current device to use.
> >
> > This was extremely satisfying work to do and was
> > just the ticket to get me
> > in good spirits for working on harder projects.
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> >  - Tom Arnold       -  Free Synth DIY webspace
> > http://www.sdiy.org
> >  - SynthGeek        -
> >  - BBD Fanatic      -  "...is it a virus, a drug, or
> > a religion?"
> >  - echo evho wjxo   -    Juanita Shrugs. "What's the
> > difference?"
> >  --------------------
> >
> >
>
>
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