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previous: Tim Gagan I've ended up with a Marshall Major... -- 4/25/2003 9:02 PM

Re: Stabilizing a Marshall Major?

4/27/2003 5:10 AM
Tim Gagan	Re: Stabilizing a Marshall Major? Thanks for the info guys. Fortunately I didn't have to replace the OT. The thing came to me after someone had replaced 3 of the 4 octal sockets with the shoddiest work I've ever seen: they had wired the sockets as though the pins were numbered counterclockwise rather than clockwise. Even taking that into consideration they were one pin off. On top of all that, the soldering was amateurish and the sockets they used didn't accomodate the wide base of a KT88. Helluva amp for someone so clueless to be working on. The one fortunate thing is that apparenly they didn't have a set of KT88's to install. God only knows what would be left of Albuquerque today if they had. My KT88-EH's came today, so I'll be firing the thing up soon.

4/27/2003 5:10 AM

Tim Gagan

Re: Stabilizing a Marshall Major?

Thanks for the info guys. Fortunately I didn't have to replace the OT. The thing came to me after someone had replaced 3 of the 4 octal sockets with the shoddiest work I've ever seen: they had wired the sockets as though the pins were numbered counterclockwise rather than clockwise. Even taking that into consideration they were one pin off. On top of all that, the soldering was amateurish and the sockets they used didn't accomodate the wide base of a KT88. Helluva amp for someone so clueless to be working on. The one fortunate thing is that apparenly they didn't have a set of KT88's to install. God only knows what would be left of Albuquerque today if they had.

My KT88-EH's came today, so I'll be firing the thing up soon.