well, I'm gonna punch some holes today - dennis W7FTO is gonna loan me some Greenlee punches that he says will go thru steel front 1/8" think for making meter holes but for now I just axed him to send me the right size for 4-400's so I can start making holes for that. He's also ending me some "glass things".... 100 watt light bulbs?
I dunno.
I have a punch for 813 sockets thats mine so I'm going to punch those out today - a pair - and start laying out the parts for that. I got sockets too.
The full size racks I have are what I wanted allright , but the paint on em is just trashed. one from abuse and the other from
bad storage. I'm going to get em powder coated, I went up and saw the sample of black wrinkle he does and its pretty good. Cant afford it yet. Dude wants 700 bucks for both racks complete including sandblasting, but he has the equipment to handle them - huge curing oven and such + he's been doing it for 15 years. His wrinkle is better than I could ever do here. he'll even pick up and deliver the work. Years from now, the racks will still look brand new n I wont miss or even think about the 700 bucks. An investment.
In the meantime I do have that 3 ft rack that is nice and clean and needs no work at all. Ready to stuff with stuff, already has good wheels under it, ready to go right now. I'm going to keep building decks for 2 different rigs, one using the HK tubes, which will go into the small rack, and one using the 4-400's. By the time I get finished with all that work, I can just stuff the big racks with decks and go. RF decks first up I think, then power supplies, then audio.
One of the rf decks you sent me has a ART 13 roller inductor in it, and looks like it used a single 4-125. Thats why the ?,
i wanted a idea on how much power it's good for. I'm gonna make a tiny video of the goings on and upload it to my youtube channel. that will give you a good idea of what I'm up to.
Thats the plan on the mauls as of right now. I'm being anal on the racks but I dont care - who the hell wants to build up some dope decks that kill and then have to slide em into racks that look like hell and have rust and s*&t?
The small rack will get the S22 modulator stuff using 572b's, big racks will get 4-400's n big 810 modulator.