Fun With Fractions

[The New Steve H]

Absent-minded people should not be allowed to build amps.

Today I decided to start installing stuff in my Champ/Herzog. I got the transformers installed. I created a circuit board and put components in it, and I installed it in the chassis. Then I decided to get crazy and put in the rectifier socket.

I used my new 1 3/8" unibit. Pretty exciting, I thought. No more hole saw! But after I made the hole, I realized...the correct size is 1 3/16".

Arrgh.

I spent an hour and a half on the lathe, making the cute little platform you see in the photo. It covers the gaping hole. If people ask why only one tube has a platform, I'll tell them it has to do with Fermat's extension of Bernouilli's principle. Science stuff. Complicated.

[diagrammatiks]

hey man...regardless of what people think of your questions and amp building...

you got some fabricating skills.

you wanna fabricate some stuff for me?

[Phil_S]

Old carpenter's rule: measure twice, cut once. Nice recovery, though, very nice.

[Bob S]

It's ok to screw up like an amateur - as long as you recover like a professional.
A bit like finishing a pre-amp board only to find it's backwards.
Never done that. Not me. No.
Well not lately.

[The New Steve H]

Thanks for the compliment, but you might want to wait a while before trusting me to do anything. It took me half an hour to re-learn how to turn the lathe on.

By the way, I figured out what that platform does. It repels microfleems that aren't subradiante.

[Gaz]

*Posting in a New Steve H thread

[Cantplay]

Epic mastery of technical speak.

http://youtu.be/6kJlxwB4VhI

John

[T Wilcox]

AHHH a homemade reducing washer, get'r done

Todd

[The New Steve H]

It seems to be working out.

I haven't wired it yet, but the board is under there, full of components.

Still need to figure out the footswitch.