Hey, i recently purchased a lot of old tube amps to refurbish. 3 7591 based receivers (Sansui 1000a, Fisher 500b, and Scott 340b) all 3 seem to have the usual like old leaky caps and missing knob caps but those will be easy to fix. I also got a very rough pair of c400 monoblocks. 1 has been slightly modified with an added volume pot and a new rca jack. However, there has been a pretty good sized hole cut out where the old jack ised to be so the new ome just hangs loose in the hole and looks pretty janky. The second one is stock under the hood but is missing the power cable and tubes. Curriously, neither amp has a power button or switch but i think they were designed that way. Both chasis' are heavily rusted and chrome is pretty pitted.So, before i go about ordering new parts and rebuilding i want to get the chasis thing figured out. Am i better off getting a new chasis fabricated and chrome plating it myself? Do i loose a significant amount of value by doing that? What if i have a single chasis made for both blocks? Each side would have independent power supplies and i want to keep the same circuit design as orignal. The only things i would change i would be possibly add a power switch for each side and independent volume pots, unless someome has a reason i shouldnt. The other option is to clean the original chasis as best i can and possibly paint it.
What do you guys think? What way should i go on this one? Im pretty new to this, ive only completeted one full restore of a pilot 240 integrated amp and built a bottlehead kit but i plan on recapping the sansui and fisher before starting the c400s, just tryin to get my plan worked out in the meantime.
