Some relax by playing Angry Birds...

[Kim Bay Smidt]

I relax by bending wires...

What relaxes you?

 

[SY]

How do you get the lengths between bends so perfect? That's remarkable!

 

[Cassiel]

Everytime I see that kind of work it comes from a Norwegian, a Swede or a Dane. Hmm...... Messy wiring indicates turmoil, passion and forwardness. My work is Dionysian, yours is Apollonian.

 

[Kim Bay Smidt]

How do you get the lengths between bends so perfect? That's remarkable!

I use my vision and a marker pen. I lay a cord where I want it and mark where it should be bent.

I use a caliper only to ensure the equal height of the wires going to the terminals of the tube sockets.

I've practicing this a lot over the years, so this time I only scrapped one wire.

Back to the topic! What relaxes you?

 

[mctavish]

Looks like art to me!!! Love the sockets too.

One of my builds was really neat like that, took a lot of time also, only to finally power it up and hear hummmmmmmm.

I ripped it out and tried to remedy it only to find that when I hastily put it together for testing with all the wires tightly twisted ( albeit messy) it was dead quiet! Never touched it again.

Now I spend my time making the topside pretty and leave the bottom covered.

( I believe I learned from Mr. Jones that what makes a circuit function well and quietly doesn't ALWAYS look pretty.) I tell myself this to feel better

However my hat is off to you sir! Even my best attempts NEVER looked that good!!

 

[mctavish]

I like cooking extravagant meals to relax, of course a glass of wine during helps too

 

[Cassiel]

What relaxes you?

Can't say. It's against the rules.

 

[Kim Bay Smidt]

Looks like art to me!!! Love the sockets too.

One of my builds was really neat like that, took a lot of time also, only to finally power it up and hear hummmmmmmm.

I ripped it out and tried to remedy it only to find that when I hastily put it together for testing with all the wires tightly twisted ( albeit messy) it was dead quiet! Never touched it again.

Now I spend my time making the topside pretty and leave the bottom covered.

( I believe I learned from Mr. Jones that what makes a circuit function well and quietly doesn't ALWAYS look pretty.) I tell myself this to feel better

However my hat is off to you sir! Even my best attempts NEVER looked that good!!

Thanks. It can hurt badly to have such experiences like you had.

My first attempt was hum free and now I want it to look good too.

So the real challenge comes with placing the components neater than this:

 

[mctavish]

Looks like you could have had a job at the Tektronix factory

I have a ziploc bag of the white ceramic terminal strips from Tek scopes, I love them.

(to the tek-o-philes - no, I did not do it! A friend of mine was the cannibal, he wanted the tubes! I got what was left after the massacre.)

 

[DF96]

You can often get away with neat wiring in audio. It can be disastrous for RF, as it increases stray inductance and capacitance and can encourage unwanted coupling between circuits.

How do I relax? Going for a country walk with my favourite lady!

 

[Cassiel]

I relax by bending wires...

You're not the only one....some amazing work here:


Kåte 66 - Klonen angriper

 

[SY]

Live music, of course. After all, this IS Austin.

Saw a TV show the other day where the host cracked that Austin was the only place where playing guitar in a band won't get you laid.

 

[revboden]

I play with my dogs. I refer to them my sanity. It's hard to be cranky around a dog that is deliriously happy to see you, plus tail wagging is funny.

 

[Kim Bay Smidt]

So the real challenge comes with placing the components neater than this:

I'm satisfied:

The teflon isolated silver foil for ground between all sockets is not yet mounted on the module shown. The module is installed in my preamp and functional.

I've an issue with the tube placed in the center of the line stage. It starts to oscillate after several hours of playing music. Replacing the tube didn't solve the issue, replacing the leaded grid resistors with higher value 1206 SMD had a positive effect.

I do fear that the teflon tube sockets are no good in this wide band line stage. The teflon part of the tube socket is higher than a NOS Tektronix socket so the induction is unavoidable higher as the pin connector will be longer as well. So either I've to reduce the bandwidth of the line stage or I've to change the socket. Well, **** happens.

 

[DF96]

Neat wiring and RF don't always mix. The snag is that the devices don't know you only meant them to amplify audio, as they see lots of nice UHF resonators in the wiring. Low loss sockets can encourage instability too.

 

[chris661]

I take my mountain bike out for a thrashing, or play guitar.

Alternatively, I put on the slightly crackly Slowhand (Clapton) album I bought recently and forget everything but the performance happening in front of me.

 

[DrDyna]

Alternatively, I put on the slightly crackly Slowhand (Clapton) album I bought recently and forget everything but the performance happening in front of me.

Agreed, but my Clapton poison is "Just one Night"....which usually slides into Pink Floyd after half a dozen beers

 

[Kim Bay Smidt]

Neat wiring and RF don't always mix. The snag is that the devices don't know you only meant them to amplify audio, as they see lots of nice UHF resonators in the wiring. Low loss sockets can encourage instability too.

The line stages is built as described by Allen Wright in the instructions for the RTP3D and only the mentioned tube cause oscillation and only after several hours of music. I'll fix it one or another way.

 

[chris661]

Agreed, but my Clapton poison is "Just one Night"....which usually slides into Pink Floyd after half a dozen beers

I'll keep an eye out.

I usually shop for vinyl in charity shops - there's often a wide variety to pick from. I've found some as cheap as 50p each, though playback can be rather variable.

 

[DF96]

The line stages is built as described by Allen Wright in the instructions for the RTP3D

The top layout in post 14 appears to have a lowish inductance ground bus connected to the central spigot in each valveholder. The bottom layout does not.