Apartment Therapy Unplugged | DIY: Tube Amplifier Kit Build (In Recycled Box), Part 3. The final chapter in the tube amp build from S5 Electronics has arrived. All your dreams are about to come true (assuming you dream about fairies and high voltages). We have cut up a box, done some soldering (pronounced "soddering"), and saved children from a burning orphanage. It is time to make this thing sing... After putting together the circuit board we mounted it to the box.
The top plate (which is also a recycled piece of aluminum) was cut out and the holes for the transformers were drilled. We found some salvaged volume knobs, handles and so forth for this project. We looked at a lot of handles for this amp and eventually settled on some bent steel kitchen cabinet pulls... but then... At this point we are [basically] finished! And here it is, in all its soft, amber-lit glory: And with some more amber, showing off its hot backside: We played a little Enya to softly burn it in; it does take a little time for it to reach its true potential.
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