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Topic: I Love Toys |
Rick Aiello
From:
Berryville, VA USA
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Jeff Au Hoy
From:
Honolulu, Hawai'i
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Posted 25 May 2006 2:07 pm |
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Wow! With the metal frame, the amp looks like it gushes that Dick McIntire thru-a-parking-cone tone!  |
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Mike Ruffin
From:
El Paso, Texas, USA
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Posted 25 May 2006 2:09 pm
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Rick
Are those 300B tubes? That should sound awesome!
BTW, I received my blue Cruztone with your PU in it and it sounds really sweet.
Thanks!
Mike |
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Gerald Ross
From:
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Rick Batey
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Posted 25 May 2006 3:02 pm
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Last edited by Rick Batey on 10 Jan 2009 7:20 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Keith Cordell
From:
San Diego
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Posted 25 May 2006 4:06 pm
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| I have a handle for you Rick. Shoot me an email |
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Jeff Strouse
From:
Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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Posted 25 May 2006 7:02 pm
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Very cool!  |
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Harry Dietrich
From:
Robesonia, Pennsylvania, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 25 May 2006 9:00 pm
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It would be neat to have that just to watch the tubes light up. I'll bet the back looks great in the dark. You're going to have to do some nightime playing downstairs with the lights off.
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George Manno
From:
chicago
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Posted 26 May 2006 2:25 am
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Did I mention that my birthday is coming up?
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Rick Aiello
From:
Berryville, VA USA
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Posted 26 May 2006 4:22 am
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Thanks y'all ...
Mike ... the tubes are (left to right: in the above photo) ...
RCA Radiotron ... 80, 47, 53 & another 47 behind the 53.
Gerald ... that would be Olympic Maximum ... same as the logs ... told you the Mrs. was into "matching" ... 
Rick ... I have a 1937 RIC brochure that has the advertisement for the Silver Hawaiian steel guitar with amp ... and thats the amp ... $100. So you seem to be right on the money ... ... the D14 is from 1938.
Keith ... email away ...
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Slants of the Week
Hawaiian Steel Stuff
The Casteels
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Randy Reeves
From:
LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 26 May 2006 4:38 am
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| Ric. I have a handle. just send that amp up my way and I will eventually get one on there |
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George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 26 May 2006 8:55 am
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ahhh, for the good old days! I had an amp with a couple of 6L6 tubes and it sure had a warm sound. That amp of yours must have a very similar sound reflecting the era of McIntire, et al. Problem was, tubes eventually wore out when you least expected.
http://www3.telus.net/public/lake_r/ [This message was edited by George Keoki Lake on 26 May 2006 at 09:56 AM.] |
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Blake Hawkins
From:
Florida
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Posted 26 May 2006 9:16 am
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The type 80 is the rectifier.
The two type 47 tubes are the power amplifiers. Good for about 4 watts out at maybe 5% distortion.
The 53 is a dual triode. Probably half is used for a pre amp and the other half as a phase inverter.
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 26 May 2006 6:43 pm
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Rick, that power transformer is MASSIVE!
My best sounding amp has a field coil speaker, and it's too bad they aren't built anymore.
Really cool amp!
Is that a Rick logo plate on the top of the amp cabinet?[This message was edited by Bill Creller on 26 May 2006 at 07:45 PM.] |
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Gerald Ross
From:
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Rick Aiello
From:
Berryville, VA USA
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 27 May 2006 12:51 pm
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GKL, I have a Gibson BR-1 amp that has two 6L6's and a field-coil speaker. Great sounding amp.
Rick,,,,,,too cool! |
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Robert Leaman
From:
Murphy, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 27 May 2006 1:55 pm
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| There is another benefit with a field coil speaker. The speaker certainly needs a magnetic field and this is provided by an electro-magnet with many turns and very high inductance. The high inductance also acts as a DC choke (inductor) for the high voltage (B+) rectifier and reduces hot switching current for the dual-diode 80 rectifier and helps to reduce high voltage ripple. If the speaker is ever replaced with permanent magnet speaker, a DC choke must be installed into the rectifier circuit to replace the lost inductance. By the way, this is the same basic amplifier circuit that was first used with early Wurlizter jukeboxes. |
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