Smokebreak wrote:I've got the yellow one from TD too and I've always wondered if it's me or the tool, as it seems to create a crater as opposed to a nice hole, and feels like it is going to explode at any moment. I would hate to think I need an instruction manual for a deburring tool.
I know what you mean. It's my feeling that you just need to be rather abusive with it. I decided that for just a few dollars, I'd give it hell.
Well, I'm glad I used grommets on this one... Left the chassis on the back porch bench today, edcors mounted, heaters wired, upsidedown, and walked away for 5 minutes. We,ve got a saying here: if you don't like the weather, give it 5 minutes. Well, that's all it took for my chassis to become a bucket as we got one of those out of the blue Texas mini-floods. I freaked, wiped everything down, took off the trannies, and i'm pretty sure(?) no water (at least not a lot?!)got in the holes. Thank you grommets. The tube sockets got soaked though. I spent about 20min with a heat gun on everything, (I didnt take them off), and the chassis has been living on a lamp for the past few hours. I figure I'll deoxit the sockets tomorrow. Do I have anything else to worry about? Would you keep the sockets? Everything seems dry now. Rust? Wet 18awg wire? Lesson learned and I'm starting to get a laugh out of it at this point...ok maybe a very tiny chuckle.
Smokebreak wrote:Does anyone have experience with tube sockets that have gotten wet? Should I just start over?
it sounds like you did a thorough job of drying them out immediately after exposure, so I wouldn't worry about it. DeOxit bath should taken care of any residual contamination.
I had a Tech21 Trademark 60 that was completely inundated in a flood. Took it apart and dried it out. Had to rebuild the reverb tank. The particle-board cabinet swelled and the tolex peeled off partly. Other than that, the amp still works fine.
