Thanks guys. To me this has been a group effort from the beginning. Carter for initial feelers after being contacted, and his archival information. VAGuy1 for the few items that Carter didn't have, Dave, NotDigital, Altinkster, Gadget, Buglegirl, Tom Bavis, and others for the encouragement, and technical savvy. If I missed anyone by name, it's not intentional, and you are just as important as the guys who's names I pulled outof thinning brain cells.... The actual drive comes from all of you, who push, cajole, and yes, sometimes Double Dog dare to take on something like this. It works in that I'm actually learning more than I thought I would, although the math continues to cornfuse me. I just can't wrap equations made from letter's looking for a number around me. So I'll need that part continuously.
Like I said earlier this was a group effort. And this group is one of the main reasons that the FISHER Forum on AK continues to flourish. Without you, it wouldn't be 1/10th of what it is. Keep up the good work.
If she likes it 1/2 as much as I think/hope she will, I've done a good job. And if it's not, well I'll work on it more until it's what she wants ( I get this sneaky feeling she'd like the expander and compressor working, but I'll try and talk her down on this. I would like them running too, but what little results aren't worth the effort, unless I can resurrect one of the Dutchmen.)
So I'll push the reality/technical vs. the nostalgia aspect. I think her husband is on my side with it, at least I get that impression from the emails. So there's a good shot here.
About the only thing it needs is a real good tuner alignment. But right now Cross your fingers that she'll like it as is (99 & 44/100's sure). Getting her Dad's console running again has been a long time coming for them and everyone is getting antsy! Gonna go take a nap as I know I won't sleep worth a tinker's damn tonight.
Larry
Like I said earlier this was a group effort. And this group is one of the main reasons that the FISHER Forum on AK continues to flourish. Without you, it wouldn't be 1/10th of what it is. Keep up the good work.
If she likes it 1/2 as much as I think/hope she will, I've done a good job. And if it's not, well I'll work on it more until it's what she wants ( I get this sneaky feeling she'd like the expander and compressor working, but I'll try and talk her down on this. I would like them running too, but what little results aren't worth the effort, unless I can resurrect one of the Dutchmen.)
So I'll push the reality/technical vs. the nostalgia aspect. I think her husband is on my side with it, at least I get that impression from the emails. So there's a good shot here.
About the only thing it needs is a real good tuner alignment. But right now Cross your fingers that she'll like it as is (99 & 44/100's sure). Getting her Dad's console running again has been a long time coming for them and everyone is getting antsy! Gonna go take a nap as I know I won't sleep worth a tinker's damn tonight.
Larry
, and the waterworks started. She had NOT heard this unit in over 30 years, and the memories came flooding back. VERY EMOTIONAL MOMENT for all. Played a 12" RCA red 78rpm copy of something (I think it was Beethoven or Bach I just don't remember.) first with the original preamp. Then i switched the RCA's around to hook up the RIAA preamp. NIGHT and DAY! She agreed that the RIAA preamp was Orders of magnitude better and I left it hooked up and screwed it to the back. I left the original preamp and compressor powered up for the heaters as changing it over and having another teh look at it, might confuse the hell out of a board level tech. But I left the resistor there just in case. Along with the old 6sn7's, and a spare 12at7. 
