Sutt's "Fugly One" WOPL Transformation

[WOPL Sniffer]

Turbo charged!!!

Huh?

 

[kevin]

Damn Jerry.. This happened fast !! I been watching for this thread... I was at Suttons house last night and he never said a word about you starting on his amp !! Well... Im watching now !! hehehe. I cant wait to hear this thing !!

 

[ksrigg]

Jerry........any news-feed from the build??? Inquiring minds want to know!

 

[jbeckva]

Uh, nuttin' Sutton.. nuttin at all LOL..

 

[ksrigg]

Looks pretty interesting to me.....those back-planes look right...and that's a nice looking variac you have there!!

 

[jbeckva]

Yeah Sutt, that variac was given to me by none other than ole Larrt himself! He was a character and a cool kat.

Here's the latest.. we bouts ready to assemble.

 

[laatsch55]

Got the switch found
.

 

[jbeckva]

Got the switch found
.

Thanks Bud, appreciate it! Yeah one of the "issues" was with the old switch here.

Gotta give the last tech some credit on their ingenuity..

 

[ksrigg]

I wish I understood what he did? I just see a big glob of hot glue. Do you think his contraption worked? What he done? Wrapped some bailing wire around the toggle and hot glued it in place? Is any of that contain an original part, or did he totally McGuiver it?

 

[ksrigg]

Thank you Lee.....that ole girl needs alot of help, I'm afraid. Bought her on eBay several years ago, only to find out that I knew the person I bought it from. He was a friend of a friend who built PC's for our company years ago. He could build a bad ass computer back in the day when a 20mb hard drive was huge and a 56k modem was fast!

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

Thanks Bud, appreciate it! Yeah one of the "issues" was with the old switch here.

Gotta give the last tech some credit on their ingenuity..

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Shoulda said something. I have new switches.

That style and all the others.

 

[laatsch55]

Good, I think that was my last. Of the micro switch variety. I have a couple of the brown rosaries left. The Aerosmith amps were all converted to to small DPST switches...cheesy fucks too...

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

I have been taking in the old ones, drilling the rivets out, and using small screws, putting in new micro switches. They work perfect and the new micro switches are heavy duty and stand up to the current surge better.

 

[laatsch55]

I stocked up on a bunch of micro switches years ago as some stuff we use in the field uses em. I'll have to try that trick..

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

These are new switches from the big electronics houses. Works awesome. Haven't had an issue. I don't send any amp out without fitting with new power switches. I bought a bunch of NOS silver half moon switches too....

 

[jbeckva]

Got a pn for the microswitch? Guess I'll work with what I have..

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

You got's some choices bro... I can send you a rebuilt switch out in the morning and you send your bad switch back to me, or, I can send you a micro switch, or you can send your switch to me and I'll rebuild it and send it back. All for free because we love ya man.

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

OR, You can put a half moon switch in there as I have NOS with the flatted or round shaft.

 

[jbeckva]

I'll go with door number one, Bud. Shoot a tracking number when ya got it. I'll send the bad one out tomorrow as well.

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

See, you guys blow me off but I have put up switches here on the site but didn't get shit for replies....