[sdiy] OT vintage amplifier repair

[David Brown]

This is way off-thread but I'm snowbound going on four days so am 
pulling out all my queued up projects to complete them.  Years ago I 
picked up a Magnatone MP-3 guitar amplifier for parts and ended up 
restoring it.  One of the neat features of this amplifier (which I 
have never seen) was the legends are back-lit with an 
electroluminescent panel and a dimmer control.  These were missing 
from the amplifier and I ended up finding some surplus EL panels at 
Electric Goldmine years ago.  I finally decided to install them today 
and am very impressed with the results.  This is pretty slick looking 
for a 1966 amplifier and nicer than any of the legends on my modular!

I put some photos up on my miscellaneous electronics page.  So far 
I've repaired my Quadraverb-Plus, four Sunn speakers, a Marantz 
turntable, and this Magnatone MP-3.  I'll have to dig around and find 
tomorrow's project although I think that's going to be digging my 
vehicle out and getting chains on it.

http://modularsynthesis.com/electronic/info.htm

Dave