Sunday Afternoon Project - Saturday Edition

[fitz]

Here's a daylight pic of the new G215 head shell after I smoothed out the ripples and the adhesive set up for a day.

AND... Part2 - NAD!
The 5002 Lead 20 chassis came today USPS.
Plugged it in for a test through my spare MHZ112A with a V30.
Yummy classic single channel Marshall growl.

Seller had a jack soldered on to the speaker leads and the power cord still coming out the bottom of the chassis.

Chopped that $#!+ off and put on some proper spade connectors.

One of the things I got out of the way during the week was adding an extra jack to the existing backplate for this head cab.
Since I'm not sure where this amp will wind up, It's wired to take a single cab, parallel cabs, or series cabs.



Hooked it up to the 8ohm column cabs with the series jacks.
But we know on Monday, that's where the 3210 will be living.
I might just have to stack 'em up for a while.

Group SS Marshall photo.

 

[BlueX]

Looks great! These amps are in good hands.

 

[Geeze]

Beautiful work @fitz288 !

I always admire well done tolex work and straight wood work!

Russ

 

[Kbarreraj]

Wow !! they look awsome

 

[fitz]

Wow !! they look awsome

Thanks!
While jamming last night I started thinking how I had both amps running at 16 ohm load when they are both 8 ohm out.
(215 is stereo out at 8 per side - matches the columns / Lead20 to is 8 so the two 16 ohm cabs parallel also matches)
Swapped the heads on the speakers for matching loads and they sounded fantastic.

Knowing that the chassis are basically interchangeable in the head shells, I spent the morning gutting the board and transformer in the Lead 20 and drilled holes for the jacks and power socket.
Got the Lead20 back together and mounted in the new head, put the 215 back in the green head.





New office layout awaiting the 3210 tomorrow.
Just going to stack that on the column cabs with the G215 on top.
Green & basketweave for the 3210 is next on the to-do list.

 

[Eric'45]

Good stuff, as always.