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Bottlehead Kits => Legacy Kit Products => Topic started by: Ejfud on November 26, 2013, 08:59:55 AM

Title: Paraglows
Post by: Ejfud on November 26, 2013, 08:59:55 AM: A few years back, I bought a pair of unbuilt Paraglows missing bases and top plates. They came from someone that had trade for the years prior. Neither of us ever started to build. A amp building buddy stepped in for me a said, heck, let's get these built. Last night I saw the first completed amp. I'm getting excited to try them with my 604's!

Pictures will follow soon.

Here's the parts shot.

(https://forum.bottlehead.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi29.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fc254%2Fejfud%2FParaglowKit.jpg&hash=332cc5d8e73fdc0bb4985f9e63ba0caa6482f311)
Title: Re: Paraglows
Post by: Ejfud on November 27, 2013, 10:55:00 AM: Here they are running in the builders system.
Title: Re: Paraglows
Post by: Grainger49 on November 27, 2013, 11:21:40 AM: So Elmer's middle initial is J?

That is an interesting setup in the builder's system. As long as there are no tiny fingers and no small furry creatures to get to the high voltage hiding under the plate.

It would make it easy to blow out cat hair.
Title: Re: Paraglows
Post by: Ejfud on November 27, 2013, 12:07:20 PM: There will be proper bases. He's just doing the electrics, I'll be doing the wood. He usually uses yogurt containers for the test run chassis. I consider the stilts a step up. ;D
Title: Re: Paraglows
Post by: Natural Sound on November 28, 2013, 05:14:10 AM: Nice Iron! Nickel outputs... sweet. BTW I have a Dynaco FM3 too and love it. Sadly there isn't much to listen to on the FM dial these days. Our local college station (KUNM) has a blues show on Wednesday nights that try to catch. There are a few other Jazz programs on that station that are worth listening to as well. Thats about it though. Our classic rock stations are so overly compressed and pumped up to the point of being unlistenable. Well that and thirty minutes of commercials for every hour of music doesn't help. :(

Keep us updated on your progress.
Title: Re: Paraglows
Post by: Ejfud on February 01, 2014, 11:31:51 AM: Here they are! These are sweet sounding amplifiers.
Title: Re: Paraglows
Post by: Paul Joppa on February 01, 2014, 12:01:44 PM: Sweet! Beautiful work on the bases.
Title: Re: Paraglows
Post by: RPMac on February 02, 2014, 05:10:05 AM: How about a picture of the 'working parts'?
Near future project to rebuild mine

Add soft start
2.5V filament transformer
Tube rectified high voltage
Just thinking for now, any ideas welcome
Title: Re: Paraglows
Post by: Ejfud on February 02, 2014, 05:26:23 AM: These were built with the stock parts that came with the kit. So I can't help with your list of upgrades, but I sure have been enjoying them.

I'll snap a picture of the underside when I pull them from the system again.
Title: Re: Paraglows
Post by: Ejfud on February 02, 2014, 09:18:49 AM: Underside shot
Title: Re: Paraglows
Post by: RPMac on February 02, 2014, 10:05:37 AM: Thanks for the pics.
I was interested to see the iron layout.
Any insights to the positioning?
Lots of room for some big upgrade caps.
Title: Re: Paraglows
Post by: Paul Birkeland on February 03, 2014, 06:39:48 AM: I would mention that the size of the cathode resistors on the old Paraglows isn't quite beefy enough. If you can get a 20+ Watt part, it's helpful.