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lol yes, yes its the hakko de-soldering gun :love4:

have wanted one of these for a long time, perfect excuse :toothy8:

Ok so I will be taking yalls advice and NOt using sockets then, except for this one, which will be used to fix the damaged pcb.

Holy crap I feel amazing today. ordered 10 relays off an shady Ebay seller. Have some 16 pin dip sockets and solder braid coming from digikey.:colors:

ok the polysterenes are the pink and clear silver axial caps I think. thanks you for the warning. I have the service manual. so am I crazy? should I set this thing on fire? launch it out the window? target practice?

In the past I have gotten away with using solder braid and a 15 watt pencil to desolder. I wonder if I might want to invest in a desolder iron, if I take this on. Does anybody have suggestions on how to turn this sows ear to a silk purse? I have some ideas. This is what im thinking; - replace...

Sealed and detented volume pot. I have to say there is some quality in this unit. Heavy chassis. Thick aluminum front plate. futronix type 1

coolest rack handles ever phono one and two, more original electrolytes, and some that have been replaced. I suppose I should replace those? I would love to have a working phono channel.

Good day gents, wondering if I should try repairing this old PL 3000 series 2. Supposedly this unit had been "recapped" by someone in Wisconsin. It does turn on and pass audio. Some of the weird shit it does include: volume rises and falls on aux and tuner, channels seem to cut out. phono...

here's another picture of the 3000

the terrible part is the relay with the ridiculous flying leads that has been glued to the circuit board!

3000 Good morning! Check this out. This is my inside of my 3000 lol, best to start another thread about this turd. Yes my input RCA on my 400 are original. And this has occurred to me also. While I had music playing yesterday I leaned the amp up so that it was resting on its cooling fins. I...

right channel

opening it up to poke around

more to the story ok so there is more to this, the right channel has always given me fits. Today while auditioning my new Phase Linear 3000 preamp (more on that in a different thread maybe) the right channel has intermittent high frequency distortion and noise. After a bit of this, the right...

381 mV both channels.