After a painstaking recap of this old Alamo Fury amp, My constant diddling with one of the pins on the tuibe socket where a 8000ohm 20 watt resistor was going, resulted in the pin of the tube socket busting off.
Now I got a new replacement 7868 tube socket-ceramic- from china , but its real cheap quality, and the task of getting the old socket ground off, the new socket on somehow ,and all those wires replaced-some with short leads form the other sockets and the transformer is a duanting task to me. Its too much.
Jerry2013 wrote:After a painstaking recap of this old Alamo Fury amp, My constant diddling with one of the pins on the tuibe socket where a 8000ohm 20 watt resistor was going, resulted in the pin of the tube socket busting off.
Now I got a new replacement 7868 tube socket-ceramic- from china , but its real cheap quality, and the task of getting the old socket ground off, the new socket on somehow ,and all those wires replaced-some with short leads form the other sockets and the transformer is a duanting task to me. Its too much.
Hold on. Don't do anything rash. Try to work with the existing socket. The picture doesn't show the damage, or at least I can't see it. Which pin? Maybe you can give us a picture from another angle?
If you have the least bit of a hook remaining on the pin and you only have that one resistor to connect, you can still solder to it. Until I see the damage, I'm going to take the view that you can salvage this without replacing the socket.
I agree, you should be able to replace the pin if you can get the old one out. You can probably push the broken pin out with a jeweler's screwdriver. Bend the little retaining tab so it is flush with the rest of the pin and it should slide out.
Otherwise, it would certainly be possible to unsolder everything and replace the socket. I've had to do that, and it is a real PITA. But definitely possible.
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