Deang Posted December 20, 2002 Share Posted December 20, 2002 What the hell's wrong with you goons. I figured this thing would be gone in two hours. C'mon now. Fully restored and tweaked by Craig. This was Craig's personal amp, so you know he went the extra mile with it. Then I got a hold of it and put the sweat equity into the cosmetics. I may have to list this on AudiogoN soon -- if you are considering push-pull tubes, don't let it slip away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOSValves Posted December 20, 2002 Share Posted December 20, 2002 it might help if you put some photo's of the front up also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deang Posted December 20, 2002 Author Share Posted December 20, 2002 You actually think theirs someone here on two channel that actually doesn't know what the front of one of these looks like? Hmmm. Gee, guess I need to throw some up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike stehr Posted December 20, 2002 Share Posted December 20, 2002 Maybe folks are broke. It is that time of year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobile homeless Posted December 20, 2002 Share Posted December 20, 2002 Send the damn thing here! I'll make a little FOR SALE site for it and it will be gone in a few hours. I can then get some shots for Craig's site which has NO shots at the moment, at least not of his Scott mods. kh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Robinson Posted December 20, 2002 Share Posted December 20, 2002 Kelly's putting a new wing on his condo to store all the gear that is under evaluation. Let's pass the hat around for his construction project ... After all, it IS the Holiday Season! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@silverfox@ Posted December 20, 2002 Share Posted December 20, 2002 please please please>>>>>>>>> send it to mobile so he can audition and possible report some of his finding for new year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobile homeless Posted December 20, 2002 Share Posted December 20, 2002 I wish to hell I was building a new wing... property via home size here on the NC coast where I live is coming in around $330 a square foot or so. A bit high I would say. Send donations! heh.... I live in the SMALLEST place in this entire forum, I bet you all my gear! kh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Robinson Posted December 20, 2002 Share Posted December 20, 2002 Sure, but I don't have the sun rising out of the ocean in front of me, and the sun setting over the pines behind ... You can have square footage, it's highly overrated. You just have to clean it, heat it, cool it and pay taxes on it ... It does, however, accommodate Klipschorns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike stehr Posted December 20, 2002 Share Posted December 20, 2002 ---------------- On 12/20/2002 4:24:07 PM mobile homeless wrote: I live in the SMALLEST place in this entire forum, I bet you all my gear! kh ---------------- Oh man! You don't EVEN want to go there, You'll end up with nothing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOSValves Posted December 20, 2002 Share Posted December 20, 2002 Mobile, My wife just booted me out the door I now live in a cardboard box ......... So send all your gear to me . Craig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobile homeless Posted December 20, 2002 Share Posted December 20, 2002 Heh... indeed. How many square feet are you loons dealing with? Craig, get that ole amp from Dean's over here. We need some shots of that beast! kh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Songer Posted December 20, 2002 Share Posted December 20, 2002 $330 per square foot sounds pretty normal to me. My 2080 sq ft house which was built in 1926 is appraised for $840,000. I bought it 15 years ago and there is NO WAY I could even begin to afford it today. What's even funnier is that the fellow I bought it from paid $55,000 for the house in 1969 from the original owner. I have a spare room that has a bunch of used gear in it. Off the top of my head: 2 McIntosh MC240 amps (1 perfect, 1 rough) 1 McIntosh MC225 amp (nice) 1 McIntosh MC30 "basket case" with good transformers 1 McIntosh MR 67 tuner (nice) 1 Mcintosh MX-110 preamp/tuner (rough) 1 pair McIntosh C-8 mono preamps (rough) 1 Marantz 8B amp (nice) 1 Marantz 10B tuner (in TERRIBLE condition--looks like it might have been in a flood at one time, but someday . . . ) 1 McIntosh C11 preamp (nice) 1 Fisher "40" integrated mono amp (MINT!) 2 AR XA turtables (OK) 1 Empire 398 turntable (OK) 1 Rek-O-Kut "Rondine" turntable (NOS, MINT) 1 Thorens TD-124 (for parts). 1 Garrard 401 (never got it working) 2 SME 3009 tonearms (very nice) 2 Ortofon 9" tonearms (very nice) 1 Grace wooden tonearm (perfect) 1 Scott 330C tuner (needs work) 1 Dynaco ST-35 amp (never plugged it in) 1 Fisher 800 reciever (OK) 1 Fisher SA-300 amp (OK) 1 Fisher 500C reciever (MINT) 1 set of Tannoy 10" Monitor Golds with no cabinets (one needs cone repair) 1 pair of KEF 102 mini-monitors (bought them new in 1983) And a bunch of cartridges Thats all I can think of for now . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arfz28 Posted December 20, 2002 Share Posted December 20, 2002 Deang,what did you use to get that metel to shine so well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Robinson Posted December 20, 2002 Share Posted December 20, 2002 Jeez, Allan, you've got a small retirement fund there ... Ebay/Audiogon should net your about twenty-five large for all that stuff, working or not. You could talk to Kelly and ship it ALL to him, let him move it, and give him 20% for the effort. Or I'll do it for 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deang Posted December 20, 2002 Author Share Posted December 20, 2002 Sorry guys (Kevin also), the amp was just sold to 'Harry' -- a faithful lurker here at the Form (I think we would be surprised to find how many folks just love to hang out here and read about our lunacies. Art, The metal job on the Scott was done using a Scotchbrite scratchpad (equivelant to .000 steel wool, but does not fray), and 1500 grit cloth. Start with the scratchpad to loose all surface grit, grease, stains, etc. It's important to only go in one direction as much as possible. When finished, vacuum. Vacuum well, especially the tube sockets. Then begin again with the cloth. One direction only. It's not always possible to do this because of things you have to get to with wierd angles. Keep in mind that the cloth is removing a bit of metal, and so leaves a 'grain'. Going in one direction helps it to make it not to look like, well -- like some idiot scoured it with an SOS pad:) The whole surface will turn black from this process. When finished, used windex to clean everything off (spray the windex on a clean cotton rag, not on the amp). A tee-shirt will do nicely for this. At this point, go back over it again with the scratchpad to restore the satin look it started with. Again, one direction only. When you are happy with the look, vacuum again -- pay special attention to the tube sockets. Remove the bottom plate of the amp and vacuum. I used the horsehair brush attachment. When done, remove the brush and do the tube sockets from underneath. The whole process took me about 5 hours. Craig, The 299b will probably show up on your doorstep sometime next week. It's coming directly to you from Cleveland. I may want to drop some PIO's in for the coupling caps -- I'm still thinking. Kelly, Before I box this amp up, I will take several pictures of the bottom for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audio Flynn Posted December 22, 2002 Share Posted December 22, 2002 I was out of town for a week, and still out of money though. Keep me in mind in February Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clipped and Shorn Posted December 22, 2002 Share Posted December 22, 2002 Craig, Is this the unit you first put the bias controls onto awhile back? How come you parted with this again....? -c7s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOSValves Posted December 22, 2002 Share Posted December 22, 2002 Clipped, I sold it to Dean because I bought the next version up the ladder of the same amp 299B and trust me I did everything under the sun to the one Dean sold and did almost everything to my new one also ! in fact the same day I got it. I started soldering on it at about 10 AM and was jamming away at about 11 PM this is how long it takes to rebuild one of these properly. Craig PS Clipped did you get my questions in ST-40 thread ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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