The Return Of A Charter Member Of The T-14 Club

[amioutaline?]

How great to see that Grainger is still at it and a lot of other names from "the turn of the century". Hello to all.

I wonder who of those here recall how many parts to ground had to be stuffed into that dreaded Foreplay eyelet? Or why?

I'm approaching those Wonder Years when it's not prudent to buy Green Bananas and, out of concern for my kids having to rent a really huge Dumpster, have been losing books, parts, and flotsam from failed and otherwise unfinished projects. Came across the original Foreplay 2 Manual, a souvenir of my first ever DIY build when I didn't know a resistor from a diode. Opening it up I was amazed at the simplicity of the circuit and my colossal  ignorance as I painted by number night after night.

Monday I ordered an Allied 6K27VF and plundered the parts stash, less for Auld Lang Syne than just something to do. Soon, there will be another Foreplay 2 in the world! Got the base roughed in this A.M. and, if the attachment thingy works, a photo of my important contribution to de-cluttering the workbench, the Tin Can.

 

[Grainger49]

Bill, a hearty welcome back! !  IIRC I attribute you with pointing me to the Obbligato PP and oil (black) caps.

Yes, the dreaded tube pin 9 (on the right, so left channel).  I got creative to get around the problem.

 

[Paul Joppa]

Had to laugh at the container labelled "current project". If I did that there would be dozens of them, all with the same label!

 

[2wo]

T14, it took a minuet for the penny to drop...John 

 

[Grainger49]

And I thought it was a tube pin.  But I remember that T14 was signal common, T13 was ground and they worked best, for me, to have them tied together.

 

[amioutaline?]

Bill, a hearty welcome back! !  IIRC I attribute you with pointing me to the Obbligato PP and oil (black) caps.

The film and oil Obbligatos have done able service for me in, among others, output caps in an ARC LS-1 and as parafeed caps in the Schmalle/Tucker 45 amp I built under the supervision of another Pacific Northwest'r, Steve Brown. You can see them peeking out from the rear of the chassis of the 45.   

 

[Grainger49]

Bill,

I was ruminating on my FP 2 yesterday.  I put a PDMPS on it with lots of uFs.  It takes 10s to shut down. 

It is a "dated" design and I should buy the more current BH offering.  I only have the Eros and DAC that is current BH offerings.  But since I'm not working I don't have that kind of extra cash.  The DAC was afforded by cashing in a life insurance policy, really for other purposes.

But it shined yesterday when two local audio buddies came to listen. 

The local opinion has changed from the best (affordable) cap being polypropylene to polystyrene.  What's up?????

More later, less sooner,

Grainger

 

[amioutaline?]

You had to put in a Prescription Drug Monitoring Program? How sad.

I was a few solders away from completing when I decided to remove the attenuator Rs and re-build stock, then check the volume levels. Then the weather got nice and I started hiking again. It's safer than driving while looking up from the bottom of a  swimming pool and the trees are hard to miss. Maybe that should be, "easy to avoid".