2 Tube unknown Linear Amplifier. Nope.
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2024
- This was a recent Ebay find. I was curious to see what it was made of and of course I paid a price to do that. I got this for 65 plus the ride on Ebay. It is a 2 tuber with Baldies and a 6aq5 keyer tube. It did not come with tubes and that's probably a good thing as they would have all been busted if it had had them as the seller did a poor shipping job. A couple sheets of carboard and a thin single layer of bubble wrap had the makings of another disaster. When I pulled it out, you could hear the transformer rattling around. Once I got the cover off, the transformer had come loose and the only thing holding it was the wires. Yikes. After unsoldering the transformer and removing the transformer covers, I then tried shrink wrap the frayed-up wires, put the tranny back, checked the diodes and replaced the old caps. Then on the variac and of course as a dialed the volts up, the cracks and the arcs came from inside the tranny. I didn't want another time consuming project, so now I just want to get rid of this. 25 bucks, no tubes and a bad tranny. If not, I will either use the case or maybe even replace the tranny..... One day.
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Thanks tram.Dr.
Yep, can't win them all.
I remember the scam some people were doing buying amps then taken items out of the amp then telling the seller there was something wrong with the amp got their money back then when the seller got the amp back the amp wouldn’t work finding out there were missing parts from the amp getting scammed in the process.
With Transistor amps, the buyer would take the transistors out and send the rest of the amp back. With CB's the buyer would keep the whole CB and send back a box of pancake mix instead. A box of pancake mix is about the same size and weight of a CB. With complaints and returns, the buyer almost always wins. I shipped a very heavy 2 tube 3-500z box. Thought I packed it great, overpacked in an extra large box, tons of bubble wrap. It had some damage when the buyer received it, bent corner, broke leg. I was trying to work out what was fair with the buyer, but the buyer filed a case with Paypal while I thought we were negotiating. Paypal let the guy keep the amp and refunded him all the payment including shipping. I lost 1300 with that one. Then after the buyer kept the amp and got all his money back from me, he tried to put me on the Facebook Black List. Only think that stopped him from Blacklisting me was I showed the Blacklist guy that Paypal let the guy keep the amp and took the money back from me and gave it all back to him. I should have quit Paypal right then, but silly me, got burned again by them again. Never Paypal again.
You should be able to flip it doc and get your money back sorry about the bad sell also thanks for the videos too keep up the good work
I paid 65 plus the ride. Don't think I'm getting that back. Curiosity killed the cat.
Uses same set up as a raider basicly ..uses a 6bq5 driver tibe qnd 2 6 volt tubes ...
Yes, the 2 tube D&A would have been very similar, but I don't think it was called a Raider....
Hawk and Hornet
@@tramdr ,
Thank you.
A kit amplifier perhaps?
kit or homebrew?
@@tramdr
The cabinet looks factory made.
Yeah but back then Homebrew builders would could buy the cabinets wholesale and then do their thing to them.
Home brew
I would say Homebrew.
looks like something ray made .. by the way ray just passed away some weeks back
Ray was a genius. RIP
@@tramdr Ray was great, which is how I know he didn't make that one....
Not when he had all the room in the world to work with and knowing a pair of grid driven cheaper tubes like the 6DQ5 would have produced more output power with less input power..
If it was shipped USPS Flat Rate I would make a insurance claim for a Grant aka a half yard. eBay seller should be spanked.
None of the big 3 will pay a claim when the seller didn't pack it right. All 3 require a minimum of 3" of bubble wrap all the way around for starters. Also, the seller is the one who would have to file a claim.
@@tramdr Doc,
I always force the seller to take the $hit back, why should you eat it!
Check out the schematics for the old two tube Contex amps that used a keying tube,
Or one of the Browning amps. They should be very similar with the exception of the input tuning.
Yep, many baldy grounded grid amps out there.
@@tramdr ,
I don't know what a baldy grounded gid amp is.
Looks boack cat or elkin... Now it uas more black cat quality
Not a Blackcat for sure.
Not even close.
A standard mail order case and chassis that people were purchasing mostly to build tube audio equipment into at the time. Mostly PA systems.
Shit ill buy that for 25$
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Elkin want-a-be. Must be the same guy that shipped a 2000 to me a couple of years ago. Sorry you and the amp took a hit.
Those were standard cases and chassis combos that were made by BUD manufacturing; and anyone could have bought them in any size via Allied Radio or Newark Electronics parts catalogs of the era....