Anyone using hammond iron in their express?

[riscado]

I've used hammond transformers with great results in previous builds, I'm wondering wether they'll do fine for an express clone...

Living in europe makes it that much harder getting toneslut or heyboer iron.

Any experiences, ideas or opinions are quite welcome.

[tsl602000]

Living in europe makes it that much harder getting toneslut or heyboer iron.

Any experiences, ideas or opinions are quite welcome.

I ordered a OT from Moose (toneslut.com). He ships to Europe. You'll have to source a PT locally though.

[riscado]

I have no problem with any transformer manufacturer shipping to europe, as far as I'm concerned most of them do, the problem is that here a customs fee of about 30% will be added to the final value of the transformer, not to mention that some items that are shipped from america get hold in customs for months at times...

[paulster]

I guess it depends where in Europe you are but certainly in the UK you're not likely to have too much problem with customs fees so long as they use USPS Global Priority to ship them rather than a courier company who'll do their own customs clearance. That means it'll come through the regular mail carrier.

In my experience because these are component parts which won't have the customs classification code on the Customs/Douaine form they'll likely just levy VAT rather than bother to figure out the specific rate of import duty. With the current Dollar rate it's still a good deal.

Moose/Toneslut will ship to the UK, as will Heyboer for a European version of the Toneslut PT (Moose doesn't sell 220/240V versions).

[riscado]

I'll try and see if the price on the heyboer is worth...

Should I ask for a 5200ohms primary or the 6600ohms for the OT, there appear to be divided opinions regarding these?

[paulster]

Moose's OT has both 5200 and 6600 so you can pick and choose.

[Normster]

I used Hammond iron for my Express and it seems to work just fine. (272JX for the PT and a 1650G for the OPT.) Of course, I have nothing to compare it to so maybe it would have sounded better with Moose's iron.