rodman99999

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How old are you?
WELL: they discontinued my blood type...... 
Variac or not?
"Can you explain why lowering supply voltage (variac) would burn out resistor in series?"           Just thinking there may be a corollary, here:          An AC motor, connected to too long of an insufficient gauge wire/cord and the attendant volt... 
Preamp sending amp into protect
Then again: some amps have coupling caps, at their inputs.   ie: The early Haflers had a, "C1", for blocking DC, on the driver board's input.     Perhaps a bad one, on the left (if applicable)? 
Preamp sending amp into protect
Some preamps have (coupling) capacitors in series with their outputs, to block DC from the power amp.    You may have a bad one, in that channel.       Try swapping the outputs of the pre and see if the problem follows (L to R).     If so: at leas... 
For a few dollars more
@oldhvymec- " They are so loud because nothing escapes around a wheel,..."                           You’ll never see a sound suppressor on a revolver (wheel gun), unless it’s in a movie with a screenplay writer that knows nothing about weaponr... 
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@griff69-      A Smith & Wesson, Model 29, .44 Magnum, to be exact, in most of the Dirty Harry stuff.     YEP: the Automag only appeared in Sudden Impact.    
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Thus far: no Naysayer Church intrusion.     Their religion and doctrine is True Crime. 
NOS Tubes - Ecstasy or Agony
I have one Sylvania (40's/bottom-getter/two hole*) VT-231 and a T/S Round Plate (metal top support), in each of my Cary monoblocks.   In the past 20 years of owning the amps, no combination has taken me, "there" better, regardless of ancillaries... 
NOS Tubes - Agony or Ecstasy -Part II - The Search
"You can find good European sellers on ebay, for example."          I've purchased a number of excellent, NOS, European, small signal, nine pins, from this (highly dependable & conscientious, in my experience) guy:                             ... 
HELP Have one cable of a pair looking for the other half
Looks a lot like Kimber’s 8PR, aside from the shrink-wrap: https://www.kimber.com/products/8PR 
VTL's and KT88's?
"...inside I see the plain old Electro Harmonix construction, as they used always’..."       See any side ring getters/silver side gettering, in any of EH’s KT88 iterations?        Compare the top supports, plates, etc.      Differing construc... 
Hafler
You can use either of the main output, RCA, pairs (’Direct’ or ’Via Phones’).     If a headphone plug is inserted in the front panel’s 1/4", ’Phones’ jack; signal is disconnected from the rear panel’s, ’Via Phones’, RCAs.     Nice feature, If head... 
What frustrates you the most about seller’s for sale ads?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/dear-abby 
A pleading request to manufacturers of amplifiers and preamplifiers.
An OB/GYN is indicated. 
Soldering Panel mount Rca
Who manufactured your RCAs?    Link to the component page?