Hey home brewers,
I'm looking for some nice ways to point to point wire my preamp.
I've built lots of Heathkits , Knightkits , Eicokits etc. back in the
fifties and sixties. The typical method of point to point wiring then
was to use mounting strips that had between two and six terminals
that were made of stamped out metal and phenolic.
A couple of the nicer methods I've seen was in a Mac MC60 and HK
Citation II. They used boards with terminal pins which I liked a lot.

Ok I'm looking for some nice modern ways to mount my circuitry.
Can Anyone give some sources of terminals and user friendly parts for
the home brewer?

Dennis Selwa

Dennis Selwa wrote:

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Ok I'm looking for some nice modern ways to mount my circuitry.
Can Anyone give some sources of terminals and user friendly parts for
the home brewer?

Dennis Selwa

Dennis,

Newark Electronics has nice fiberglass or phenolic turret boards
available, They come in a strip scored so you can snap them apart in
increments of 5 pairs of terminals. Also, Antique Electronic Supply has
nice turret boards drilled to a accept chassis mount tube sockets. Both
octal and 9 pin miniature versions available.

One thing though, like seemingly everything associated with tubes, these
boards aren't exactly cheap.

Good luck.

Mike L.

If you want to make up turret boards cheaply,, find your local plastics
company,, and ask them for some 1/8" G-10, or FR-4 or Linen board.. They
always have scraps they will sell you.

Mouser has the turrets for about $18.00 per hundred. They are a Keystone
item. You will need a drill press or other suitable way to press/crimp the
turrets into the board.

These are really easy and fast way to make a board,, eyelets are nice too!!
Fender Amp style.

The tool can be made up from a couple of 1/4x20 bolts, or you can get it
from Doug Hoffmans site.

If you need more info pls feel free to contact me.

Vin Collins





"Dennis Selwa" wrote in message
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Hey home brewers,
I'm looking for some nice ways to point to point wire my preamp.
I've built lots of Heathkits , Knightkits , Eicokits etc. back in the
fifties and sixties. The typical method of point to point wiring then
was to use mounting strips that had between two and six terminals
that were made of stamped out metal and phenolic.
A couple of the nicer methods I've seen was in a Mac MC60 and HK
Citation II. They used boards with terminal pins which I liked a lot.

Ok I'm looking for some nice modern ways to mount my circuitry.
Can Anyone give some sources of terminals and user friendly parts for
the home brewer?

Dennis Selwa

Dennis Selwa wrote:
Hey home brewers,
I'm looking for some nice ways to point to point wire my preamp.
I've built lots of Heathkits , Knightkits , Eicokits etc. back in the
fifties and sixties. The typical method of point to point wiring then
was to use mounting strips that had between two and six terminals
that were made of stamped out metal and phenolic.
A couple of the nicer methods I've seen was in a Mac MC60 and HK
Citation II. They used boards with terminal pins which I liked a lot.

Ok I'm looking for some nice modern ways to mount my circuitry.
Can Anyone give some sources of terminals and user friendly parts for
the home brewer?

Dennis Selwa

I usually use the tradtional terminal strips, not because they're
traditional but because they're easy to use, and relatively inexpensive
and readily available.

Cheers,
Fred
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Hi RATs!

My cool summer amp is HL2/ML4. All connections to tube are just wire wrapped
around pins of tubes.

In response to recent discussion I took out the grid stoppers:

turn off B+

wait few minutes (all PS caps have 470K bleeders)

pull resistor lead off pin

wrap other end around pin

added another current meter to B+, after common 4 x 4K 10W voltage dropping
array, 980 ohm net

turn on B+

sounds great

Happy Ears!
Al


Alan J. Marcy
Phoenix, AZ

PWC/mystic/Earhead