A Cake Tin Makes A Great Tube Amp Chassis
If you have ever had a go at building a tube-based project you will probably be familiar with the amount of metalwork required to provide support structures for the tubes themselves and the various heavy transformers and large electrolytic capacitors. Electronic construction sixty years ago was as much about building the chassis of a project as it was about building the project itself, and it was thus not uncommon to see creative re-use of a chassis salvaged from another piece of equipment.
This morning we stumbled upon a rather nice solution to some of the metalwork woes facing the tube …read more
