New connectors for my Quad 405

[bulgin]

Hi Guys

The top plate of the 405 is off and I'm eyeballing the pristine innards and sizing up the job to add rca phonos, change speaker binding posts to take wire or bananas and add a safe on/off toggle or switchable IEC mains socket. I know how to work safely and re-wiring one-by-one.

Has anyone done such a job before on this amp?

Any ideas or advice welcome!

Regards to all

bulgin

PS This will be the first 'upgrade', the rest I'll do later.

[rcavictim]

A friend has a vintage pair of the famous Quad monoblocs (P-P KT66's) collecting dust and he wants me to restore them. Is that what are known as the 405's? I'll likely be doing the same thing, replace the knob and tube wiring and those goofy I/O connectors to ones that are actually compatible with our audio world.

I hope you can post pics of your mods once done.

[bulgin]

Hello rcavictim

What you have is far nicer than mine, which is solid state. I do have a Leak Stereo 20, Troughline 11 tuner and two Leak pre-amps which are tubed as is yours. The Leak amp and the Troughline is in daily use. I did the Leak a few years ago and fitted some very nice binding posts bought from Maplin, I also replaced the pair of phono's at the back and sourced the correct 'bulgin' ac socket and plug (so named after me, of course!). Underneath, I replaced many out of spec resistors and the two canned caps on top are still there but disconnected. These have been replaced with two cap sets on pcb's and attached with d/sided tape hidden away underneath

Regards

bulgin.