Hey, I had a guy draw up a chassis for me and sent prints off to a local fabricator. I was surprised at the price reduction when you buy 4 or 5 vs only one! One chassis is on the order of $135, while at 5 chassis' the price drops to around $50. I was curious to know if anyone might be interested in going in on a few of these with me to bring my prices down?
Here's the rub, though, and please read this carefully. The layout is "similar" to a dumble, but it's NOT a standard dumble layout. It's my own layout so I've changed a few things. The size is 19" x 2.5" x 8". Here are some other things I did:
- 1.) Moved the volume pot next to the other pots
2.) Did not use IEC type power cord, but put a hole for a Fender style strain relief.
3.) I stretched the chassis to 19" wide.
4.) spaced the pots out to use chicken heads w/out interference.
5.) I added an additional tube socket for future reverb option, and added another pot hole in the front panel to the right of the Presence (which I plan to cover with a face plate until I start doing reverb)
6.) I moved the power switches to the back
7.) I'm using a larger, Fender style pilot light
8.) I didn't punch all the holes for boards and stuff in the bottom, just the tube sockets, bias pot and a transformer hole for the PT
6.) The PT hole is specific to a certain Heyboer found on Allenamps.com. It's the TP40D (smaller hole than the typical Twin/Bandmaster)
In any case, if this is something you might be interested in email me directly and I can send you a picture of what the chassis layout looks like. My email address until this Friday is "mark(dot)malin(at)ge(dot)com". After Friday you can use my home address of "mjmalin(at)uwalumni(dot)com" or just PM me.
Thanks guys.
Mark.
