audiodon
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For your restoration pleasure:
I've got two Fisher X-101-C cathode biased 7591 based integrated amps to restore. One's for an audio friend and it's clean and powered up fine on the variac. I'll call it the pretty one.
This will be a Dickensian tale much unlike the Tale of Two Cities, because it will be about the cleanup and restoration of a child of pampered privilege and the cleanup and restoration of a child of neglect and squalor. There's nothing about guillotines, knitting, or substitution of one for the other. Who ever wrote better of the nature of squalor than Charles Dickens? That's not the arena in which I shall choose to do battle. But it seemed like a good title.
The pretty one works fine, just needs some love. Someone's replaced the coupling caps with cheap caps (you know, the kind you used to get for a quarter). When this one is done, it will sound as good as it looks. It will truly be a showcase piece and it will sound like being in a showcase would be a waste of a great sonic performer.
The other one is what I call the ratrig. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it yet. The front panel is Ok to good, but everything else isn't. I must admit that I bought it off an AK'er but I don't recall who. Therefore I won't say a lot of disparaging things about the workmanship, but it does look like a garage amp. it's got a mixture of two different styles of knobs and there are no knob brights on the four knobs under the cover.
I've brushed off the last of the mouse droppings, but the rust will have to be wire-brushed and painted and it's none too pretty.
It's been recapped, but mistakes were made.
So, in a sense, I will have to undo what has been done and redo it to my satisfaction or to a level of respectability. I haven't decided which. Because the front panel is Ok and will clean up fine, this one will actually look great as long as it's put in a case so you can't see the chassis.
The ratrig in some ways will be the more interesting restoration, but the pretty one is the one that will command the big bucks.
The pictures in this post are of the pretty one.
I'm going to try an experiment and not clean this one up until I've finished the work on it.
I'll have to order some jewels. I'll probably order X-1000 jewels off ebay because at least you get five. Both of these, the pretty one and the ratrig, do not have the green jewel that belongs on the on light.
The grid resistors are stock, 330k grid bias resistors and a 1k resistor to the tube's pin 6 audio input.
I've got two Fisher X-101-C cathode biased 7591 based integrated amps to restore. One's for an audio friend and it's clean and powered up fine on the variac. I'll call it the pretty one.
This will be a Dickensian tale much unlike the Tale of Two Cities, because it will be about the cleanup and restoration of a child of pampered privilege and the cleanup and restoration of a child of neglect and squalor. There's nothing about guillotines, knitting, or substitution of one for the other. Who ever wrote better of the nature of squalor than Charles Dickens? That's not the arena in which I shall choose to do battle. But it seemed like a good title.
The pretty one works fine, just needs some love. Someone's replaced the coupling caps with cheap caps (you know, the kind you used to get for a quarter). When this one is done, it will sound as good as it looks. It will truly be a showcase piece and it will sound like being in a showcase would be a waste of a great sonic performer.
The other one is what I call the ratrig. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it yet. The front panel is Ok to good, but everything else isn't. I must admit that I bought it off an AK'er but I don't recall who. Therefore I won't say a lot of disparaging things about the workmanship, but it does look like a garage amp. it's got a mixture of two different styles of knobs and there are no knob brights on the four knobs under the cover.
I've brushed off the last of the mouse droppings, but the rust will have to be wire-brushed and painted and it's none too pretty.
It's been recapped, but mistakes were made.
So, in a sense, I will have to undo what has been done and redo it to my satisfaction or to a level of respectability. I haven't decided which. Because the front panel is Ok and will clean up fine, this one will actually look great as long as it's put in a case so you can't see the chassis.
The ratrig in some ways will be the more interesting restoration, but the pretty one is the one that will command the big bucks.
The pictures in this post are of the pretty one.
I'm going to try an experiment and not clean this one up until I've finished the work on it.
I'll have to order some jewels. I'll probably order X-1000 jewels off ebay because at least you get five. Both of these, the pretty one and the ratrig, do not have the green jewel that belongs on the on light.
The grid resistors are stock, 330k grid bias resistors and a 1k resistor to the tube's pin 6 audio input.
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