12-12-2016, 11:50 PM
Honestly, though obviously I wish you success, I find it irresponsible on anyone's part to encourage a person not familiar with electronics (soldering is not electronics) to start their familiarizing with it from restoring a tube-based equipment.
Tubes work with high voltages, up to 4 times higher than the 120V in the outlet that still can kill a human.
My honest suggestion: hire someone to do it, or put it away until you have enough understanding and practice to work with tubes.
Sorry if I sound a bit harsh but it is plain dangerous what you are about yo do, and I noticed recently that people without proper experience get lots of encouragement; I think it is wrong. No restoration is worth risking a life for.
Tubes work with high voltages, up to 4 times higher than the 120V in the outlet that still can kill a human.
My honest suggestion: hire someone to do it, or put it away until you have enough understanding and practice to work with tubes.
Sorry if I sound a bit harsh but it is plain dangerous what you are about yo do, and I noticed recently that people without proper experience get lots of encouragement; I think it is wrong. No restoration is worth risking a life for.
People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.
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