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Hi all, found a new one. Roger Russell who used to work for mac and has some web sites has a new one in stock he'll be sending my way for very little money. I appreciate all your time and effort answering my post. And Randy Taylor, how weird it is to see my name up here answering myself?!! Randy

Craig, thanks for the tip, just perused their catalog and sent percy an email asking him if he has any NOS or used carbons there.

Thanks Mark.I'll try the seaches tomorrow.Sounds like fun.Randy

Thanks Craig.I'll ask.Hoping to get a little going on tomorrow on the MKIII's.Randy

Hi John, thanks for the reply.Don't think he does old gear enough to know where to find old stuff like this easily. He is really good tho.Just askin'.Randy

not done yet,been busy lately.craig's been answering some questions and such.hopefully in the next two weeks they'll be up.ordered the last of the components tuesday, they should be in next week. everything will be new except for the 3 octal sockets per amp and the transformers.randy

Does anyone know where I can find a NOS or good used 2 watt 12K carbon resistor for a 1960 mac 60.The tech working on them doesn't want to use anything but! Thanks guys. Randy

Do your speakers being time aligned neccessarily make them sound good to you or in spite of??

John,what are the benefits of surface mounting the tweeters? And do the squawkers benefit as well? Randy

Allen,did not get a chance to thank you for the pies so thank you! That was very nice of you,Randy

I went from lascala's to k-horns and they did not work in my room,went back to lascala's.Room is important

So RF3, is that your wife,girlfriend or you? Just kidding but who is she to you? randy

Oh,BigBusa,two months ago or so I just got another pair of lascala's after several years of being without and went to fire up the mac's which had been sitting for a couple of years.Guess what,they didn't sound very good and then after 15 minutes they started motorboating. Needless to say I screwed up by not starting them with a variac or cutting the power. Did not know that was needed to reform the capacitors. Tried the dynaco's,both MKII's and the St-70's and they all ended up screwed up!What a learning experience. Just have a fun time with your stuff and don't take it too serious, remember, opinions are like a**holes, we all have one. Randy

Hi BIGusa, just another opinion here. Bought my first set of Lascala's in the mid 80's. Had a Hafler 110 pre and bought and built a Hafler 220 amp to replace a sherwood receiver, wow what a difference. Headroom out the wazoo!Our listening position is 14.5 feet away from the face of the speakers and when in the mood we'd crank it up and get the pant legs moving on our jeans, no sh*t!! I'd had some old Dynaco MKII's laying around that a friend had given me for some work I'd done for him. Got them running(today I can laugh at the running condition we had them in, Would not dare to fire them up in my system in the condition they were in now). All in all they did not sound bad but they weren't good enough to replace the 220. About 1989 came across a deal on some old Mac gear. Installed the amps,mac60's, and fell in love with the sound. Then added a tube pre and the sound was that much improved. I don't know how loud you want to listen to music and I'm no golden ear but the 60 watts the mac puts out sounds better than the 110 watts the Hafler did, louder and less irritating and I really like the Hafler. Just one mans opinion. Working on really getting the Dynaco's in better shape than new so they'll whip the mac's, Can't wait, listen to your own ears,,Randy

On the sds capacitor board where it is marked power transformer b+ windings or cathode of 5ar4 is pin #8 the correct one to use? I'm assuming it is because the choke went to #8 on the original, and if so do I connect a jumper across the other.What about the ground hooked up to the V1 socket,does this go anywhere now?

Getting a little confused on the finer points here. (1)How critical is the 0.02 mf caps impedance? (2)The 6800 ohm resistor that went from electrolic capacitor lug one to lug two, is this now getting mounted on the new power supply board? (3)The dual bias? Back to studying the roadmaps.(instructions)

Hey Craig, the insulation is cloth,1950's MKII's!Two of the wires were replaced with plastic insulated wires when I aquired them in 85 or so.I've already redone those two with some new cloth insulated wire from Triode but they were right at the outside of the transformer.What do you think? Randy

Hey,it worked,tried putting in 000099 to see what colr would come up but it stayed blue? Randy

Hey Kudret,thanks for tyhe sig tips,alot better now.It wasn't all that bad with someone to explain it.Thanks Randy

Hi Tom, just curious if you received the postage and self add. label? Randy

Yup,Yup,Yup,Yup,Yup,hey Craig thanks for the e reply. Got your package packed up tonight and will be mailed away tomorrow. Sending a chassis minus bottom plate for you in case you decide you want to get that chromed too. Can't send you the bottom because I don't have an extra. Received some more parts tonight from partsexpress. Supposed to get the chokes from Triode tomorrow so don't be surprised if I become a pest again soon. On that note here's a poser.Some of thewires coming off the transformers are feeling pretty brittle, should I go into the trans and start with fresh or am I asking for trouble? Randy

Mind if I butt in?? I don't have anything you're looking for but I have a need. Looking for the glass front to a C20 mac pre. The lettering is wore in places on mine. OR maybe anyone know someone to silkscreen same?? Thanks guys, Randy

Hey Craig, are the diodes supplied with the triode kits ok to use as replacements for the diodes used in the MKIII???Randy

It has been asked but I've seen no reply,has anybody tried this or something similiar??Randy

Hey Craig, let me know how to get the ends to you or do you want to pick them up? Long drive.R