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Author: | John Mayes [ Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:23 am ] |
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Slightly off topic, but I thought I'd share/mention this to anyone who is interested. My car's transmission went out yesterday (well I could still use 3, and 4 th gear...) so I gotta get a new tranny in it, and needless to say they ain't cheap! To make it worse I just spent a few thousand, on some guitar stuff, tools, wood, cnc work ect, so I'm flat broke. So I thought I would sell the amp I just made for myself. I'm selling it for what it cost me to make it, which should be just enough to replace the tranny. I was thinking about selling it anyway it is rather loud for my shop, since I ahve to offices on both sides of me, and I was gonna build myself a 5F1 amp, but that'll have to wait a while so if your interested in the amp read on. Here are the details: It is a 18 watt marshall style lite (no tremolo, just one tone knob, and one volume knob...simple pure tone!). It has two 12 inch weber speakers. One is a Silver bell ceramic and one is a Blue Dog ceramic, both 30 watters (4 ohm each). Transformers are vintage style GDS (very nice upgrade..some serious iron!). Mallory 150 series caps. It is powered by 2 el84's (groove Tube EL84S) 2 12ax7's (NOS GE) in the pre stage, and the rectifier is a EZ81 tube (NOS Amperex). Has both jacks for 4 or 8 ohm (currently wired for 8 ohm [two 4 ohm speakers] ). Full combo cab with red tolex, and a large checkerboard grill clothe, and gold piping (custom made cab for me be Reason Amps). Very full well rounded, punchy tone. Exactly what you'd expect out of an 18 watter. Price is $850 (what it cost me to build). Here are a few pics: ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Author: | John Mayes [ Mon Jan 30, 2006 1:11 pm ] |
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oh and shipping is included (which will cost about $50.. this thing is heavy) |
Author: | LanceK [ Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:05 am ] |
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Sweet looking amp John! Very Vintagish! I hope you sell it, I know Trannys can be S'pensiv! I did one two years ogo in my Lumina and it cost 2600.00 ![]() |
Author: | John Mayes [ Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:15 am ] |
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yeah luckily this one is from a 1986 Chrysler LeBaron (POC). New Tranny installed is gonna be like $750. Yep vintage is exactly what I was going for! |
Author: | johno [ Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:39 am ] |
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[QUOTE=John Mayes] yeah luckily this one is from a 1986 Chrysler LeBaron (POC). Yep vintage is exactly what I was going for![/QUOTE] I would really call an 86 LaBaron "vintage" ![]() |
Author: | John Mayes [ Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:18 pm ] |
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haha.. yeah it's pretty old, but it only has 90K on it so I'm hoping it will go for a while longer. I don't want to have to get back under a car payment, after I've worked the past 5 years trying to (and succeeded) get debt free. |
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