| Absolute. Best. Chassis. Ever. - Click HERE for Original Thread |
| Sch3mat1c |
Post your crappiest chassis photos here :D :D
This is actually just a gag reminder, tubes stuck in a box, no wires, because I need to get off my butt and working on the PROJECT...
Tim |
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| JasonL |
| dont let dave seee this because he will tease me about my Ice tea speaker can's : O ) |
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| dhaen |
Tim,
I see you've taken the first steps towards wiring it: the heaters.
Presumably the mains transformer is oriented for minimum hum :D |
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| Sch3mat1c |
Actually that's an OPT pulled from a 6BQ5 PP organ amp, but not like it matters. :D
Tim |
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| smoking-amp |
Some rust on an old chassis might help damp microphonics.
But how about this!
Use an old fish bowl to submerge the electronics in an oil bath. Then put some sparkly shiny tinsel bits into the oil to circulate due to the heat from the tubes, so will look like a Lava Lamp. No dead fish please.
Don |
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| dhaen |
I nearly moved this thread to the new "Group Buy" forum :D
PD will have trouble following this ;) |
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| 6SN7GT |
Don't Wall-Wort sell these as high end amps?
I'll go check the catalogue. |
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| dhaen |
| That looks suspiciously like a Leader vectorscope. |
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| smoking-amp |
Remember those little smoke pills you used to get for Lionel and other toy trains that made smoke for the train engine when they were heated. Are those still available?
Put some smoke pills into the fishbowl with oil bath. When it gets hot enough, they would give off smoke bubbles and probably help cool the tubes too.
Could also try putting them under the plate cap connectors for a regular amp. for nice effect.
For a really neat effect though, here is an idea:
Mount the tubes and electronics on a flat board (maybe PC) assembly. Then punch holes in the chassis for where the tubes can come thru. The board assembly would be motorized so as to ascend from within the chassis at power on. The effect would be of the tubes slowly coming up thru the holes in the chassis. At the same time, a power resistor inside the chassis would be energized so as to heat the smoke pills. And a bunch of assorted color LEDs would be mounted near the tube positions so as to illuminate the smoke columns eminating thru the tube holes as the tubes come up. Sort of like the special effects for a band. (If it burns down your house though, its not my fault.)
Don |
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| Sch3mat1c |
Use a fog generator. Easier to refill. :D
Tim |
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| SY |
| Too complicated. Just buy a Jadis and you don't need the flashes, the fire, or the smoke pills. It's all built in. |
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| faustian bargin |
don't forget the retractable styrofoam model of stonehenge with rigging mounted in the ceiling, and also some dancing midgets.
/andrew - treads the fine line between clever and stupid |
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| Sch3mat1c |
Now the cardboard one would be pretty ghetto... :D Metal cake pans are fine by me though, as long as they are thick (stiff) enough to support things well. That round pan could make some interesting stuff, though.... hmmm..... :D
Tim |
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| faustian bargin |
toroid bundt cake anyone?
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| smoking-amp |
Ah! The old crushed ferrite core powder, mixed in the cake mix trick. Too low a Mu though for my tastes.
I tried to make some acoustic Jello once by mixing ferrite core powder with whipped Jello. Then I used a winding around it to try to get magnetostriction for acoustic output. Too low an efficiency though for audio. Neat novelty though, musical Jello.
:D
Don |
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| EC8010 |
| Have you fellows been on the wacky baccy? |
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| 6SN7GT |
Yup, just got home from an all-night rave.
doof .. doof ... doof. .... diddy ... doof .. doof .. doof.
We were waving KT88 around under a UV lamp.
Didn't glow though :-( |
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| EC8010 |
| quote: | Originally posted by 6SN7GT
We were waving KT88 around under a UV lamp. Didn't glow though :-( |
Should have used an EM84... |
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| purplepeople |
I have one or two experiments still in their original enclosure.
:)ensen
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| Sch3mat1c |
Was wondering if anyone was going to offer up something like that. ;) Colt45 once emailed me a pic of two 12AU7s in sockets sticking up out of a Tupperware box.... :D
Tim |
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| smoking-amp |
Now here is a novel material I haven't seen used for a chassis YET!
http://www.cowpieclocks.com/cowpieclocks.html
(check out that example 1!!)
http://www.cowpieclocks.com/cowballs.html
I knew someone who had one of these at their desk at work for years until someone figured out what it really was and the boss made him remove it. Now if we could just figure out how to get the cow to drop them into a mold with octal socket cutouts.
Don |
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