The biggest trouble i'm in at the moment is I'm two months behind, and am quickly losing my enthusiasm for this project, all over a 10.00 PCB.......I'm not sure its worth it anymore........I just got 10 boards from Serbia, and they are not usable, very poor quality..........I'm going think about for the week end and make so real choices.........Will
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Dogearedaudio: I seems that Audiogon blocked about everything you sent.....Audiogon wants to stick there nose in everything.......Its like we are going take something worth 5 cents....................Will
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Carlsbad2: Point to point is not the answer when you use silver trace boards , which is what I need......Boards are much more consistent in lead lengths and hum control..............But that's another subject..............W
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Noromance: That board would work, who sells those ??? Maybe I can buy 40 - 50 of them.......I would really like to buy them without parts or at least not all the parts...........I always use 1 watt resistors and Mundorf Caps, but otherwise that board looks good............Will
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I'm still on it but Dynakitparts can't provide me with over 10 of these so I can't go there.....I can't afford to get in this possession again without parts so I'm going to work on having them made but that's very expensive...........They want 2000.00 to do the drawings .......I should retire and call it good, but I love building amps for people.......I'm going to contact some of the manufacturers that the forum people named and see what they say...........The other problem is 100 items is a small order , so they are not very interested......Everybody is about big money, so little guys have it hard sometimes.........W
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Dekay: I have tried that board, has too many ground loops , very poor design .....In fact I bought 5 of them to try.........Will
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Well I'm still working on it, but American manufacturers want 2000.00 to do the drawing to make them, they can't copy my board......I bought 20 from Serbia and it will take over a month to get them, I do hope they come at some point........Its crazy that I can't find anyone who can make them without the special drawing.......We built a B-17 in about 3 hours and I can't get a printed circuit board to build my amps...........My supplier in MA. let me down and keeps telling me he's going to get them but they never show up, and I been buying from him for 30 years, he's getting like me TIRED.............It would be really nice if America would get back in the game, but I won't see that in my life.........Its the Covic generation (spelling ???)
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Roxy: I won't build a inferior amp, I'll quit first and all my great customers will suffer because they can't buy that amp they see on the internet that's all hand built a perfect working amp and it's something for there system that's good and proper......My customers are just regular people and that's who the amps are for.........I am so surprised that this board deal has turned into what it has, my supplier for 30 years has tried to buy a cheaper board, save money and pass it off to me and then give me something that is supposed to be better that is poorly made, ground loop problems, bad traces and expects me not to notice it's junk.....I built up 5 of these boards, they are no good and I won't use them......So that's the problem in short......I can't find anyone to make or sell a proper board.....I would buy the Dynaparts board but I can't get the supply and he wants 3 1/2 times the price as I have been paying......THANKS W
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Roxy; That's a fair idea, I know Mike Sanders (Quicksilver) and I always wanted to talk to Nelson Pass.......Actually Dick Olsher is a person that could maybe help me out and he has one of my amps........That is a great idea.......I'm on it tomorrow........Will
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Roxy: I'm working on it and will let you know how it goes.........Will
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My biggest enemy is my inability to navigate the internet.......Most of the reasons I can't connect with some of my suppliers is the internet and me...........Time has passed me by, and I'm not sure I can ever catch up.......I will simply have to pass my battalion on to younger smarter people than me..........I spent some time this morning trying to talk with Nelson Pass but I didn't do so good, and I have been working on this for over a month, and it appears that one supplier will probably end my long career of amplifier building forever because I can't get a 10.00 PCB..............Its the American way........Will
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Well I flunked out again, if you can't product a "Gerber File" you will never be able to get a PCB, I don't care who you are.......No file, no board, not even the Chinese can do it..............Will
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Tubes4hifi is not a dynaco circuit, so It wouldn't work for me , but I do appreciate all the help.....I don't really want to give it up, but I need to also be realistic in what I'm capable of doing, at the moment I am suffering from "High Blood Pressure" which these kind of things don't help.........At one time I could just build and design amplifiers and not have to deal with these types of problems, but I have changed and times have changed, so I need to look at the whole picture and deside if I want to deal with it anymore, but for the moment I'll pursue it...............Will
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Sir: Do you know of anyway or if its possible to copy another "New" board....If you can find out I would send him the only board I have to copy.....I know thats not the way it normally works but its a chance...........If I can just send him the board I have........Will
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Well to the many people who brought forward great idea's, I can't thank you enough......The problems that I have really can't be fixed, most are my problems with the modern day of doing things .........People don't look at challenges as anything but casual occurrences and no real importance........I came up in a different time, where if you didn't "push" you got nowhere........I'm out of "push" and out of energy........Thanks for your help and energy, someone else will have to run with it Will
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Roxy: Thanks for your encouragement, It is a great motivater , but time is the enemy, and I don't seem to have the time to fix it anymore..............The people on Audiogon Forum have sent so many solutions, but I started too late to give myself enough time...........One is only given a certain amount of time in life, sometimes we use it well, sometimes we waste it . Now I have to "Pay Up" for the time I have wasted........I will put a little more time in it and maybe I will get a pay-back and some more time........I love building my amps , so that's not the problem .........If I had a Gerber File I could get boards from China in two - four days.......I don't know if I could even use a Chinese part ???? But I don't have a Gerber file anyway...............We will just have to see...........Will
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Well forum people.....I have now purchased 4 Dynakitparts boards......I will have to make a few modifications and build them up and test them...........We will see how that plays out.........This will be the 4th set of boards I have built up and tested, some very poor, some better..........Hopefully this is the ticket............Will
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Well I have had great success with the new Dynaco boards, I have been able to get them slightly modified to use for my amps, and the seller has been very nice to deal with...........I can only thank the people on this forum that spent a lot of time with some great ideas.......The Dynakitparts boards are a fine quality product and people will do fine to use them.............THANKS
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