Bill Flude
Bill Flude
@frocesterbill
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Luthier
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Joined: Jun 27, 2019
Last seen: Jan 24, 2025
Topics: 24 / Replies: 632
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RE: Some Amp Building Qs

The 'mended' amp can be your workshop amp - use it for testing new guitars and paly music while you build... I have a Micro Cube in my workshop - it...

5 years ago
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RE: Site Update!

Yes - all better...... Well done whoever fixed it!

5 years ago
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RE: Some Amp Building Qs

Well done that man!

5 years ago
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RE: Site Update!

Yes - just noticed the same - pics all gone...

5 years ago
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RE: Site Update!

Well that’s sorted...... Easier than uploading as before as all my pics end up in Flickr anyway....

5 years ago
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RE: Site Update!

Hopefully some of you recognise the pic - it is the ‘Magic Place’ from 2017.....

5 years ago
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RE: Site Update!

So just link from Flickr......

5 years ago
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RE: Site Update!

Can’t edit on my iPad....

5 years ago
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RE: Site Update!

Just tried to add a picture from Flickr as I have a paid for account - got two images.......

5 years ago
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RE: Site Update!

Seems to have worked - lots faster on first look!

5 years ago
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RE: Some Amp Building Qs

Valve amps are quite simple circuits, far fewer components than a solid state amp. Some have point to point wiring - the main components (valves, tr...

5 years ago
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RE: Post your music..

The use of a drill press and hole saw is in the bolt on neck course. I did this process at the Bailey Workshop last year - works really well.

5 years ago
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RE: Hi from shrewsbury

Welcome @mezy - this place is slightly dangerous and very addictive.....

5 years ago
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RE: Some Amp Building Qs

That component (IC27) looks like it might be a voltage regulator - that is a more recent amp than the one I found a schematic for - looks like it has ...

5 years ago
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RE: Stewmac Dremel Router Base

Yes - by DHL - maybe I was just lucky - but 8 orders in a year - some only $10-20 others were $100. Wouldn't have ordered the $10-20 ones as shippin...

5 years ago
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RE: Stewmac Dremel Router Base

Also look at Axminster Tools - they have router bits and different bearing sizes - might be able to find a combo there that works. It could also be ...

5 years ago
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RE: Some Amp Building Qs

How old is the amp? Electrolytic capacitors age and fail - they are the largish tubular things - the tops bulge at first and then may burst open. ...

5 years ago
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RE: Some Amp Building Qs

It could be something simple like a fuse - it could be a failed soldered joint on the PCB - bad component.... I have a Cube 60 schematic (circuit di...

5 years ago
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RE: Some Amp Building Qs

I built a valve amp 4 or 5 years ago - try a search on AX84 - there is a community based around a single ended 5 Watt amp with an EL84 power valve. ...

5 years ago
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