![]() It's just a metal holder for a white LED with no cover. Anyone doing this should be able to read (or lookup) resistor color codes. But it would have been nicer to have the hardware marked in place of the resistors being marked. Some resistors in one of the bags were individually bagged and marked with their values, which is nice. It isn't clear what is to be used where, but I'll see if I can suss it out. Within the parts bags were some black unmarked screws, washers, and nuts. Also, the kit assembly instructions says that the input and output jacks need to be insulated from the chassis, but it looks like the output jacks can't be insulated from the chassis since the threads, washers, and nuts are all metal. The terminals of the output jacks do have holes for wire, but the holes are tiny. The output jacks are about the cheapest looking jacks I have ever seen. The input jacks are all plastic body, nut, washer, and through-hole legs. But the cutouts in the chassis do show through the face plates a bit, i.e, I can see the outline of the holes behind the face plates. A couple of holes in the chassis are unused for this specific kit, being covered by the face plates. It seems that this chassis and the boards are used across KLD's range of kits. The face plates (flexible textured vinyl) lined up well. kits/Assmbly amp guildline/Assembly instruction figures of KLD guitar hand wired amplifier.pdfĪny tips, criticisms, and questions along the way are very welcome. Available documentation from KLD is here: And when it is in a good working state (hopefully), I'll post some decent quality sound clips using a microphone or two. I'll post pics and impressions here as I go. I have read and do understand about high voltage safety hazards and precautions, although I'm only vaguely schooled in how some circuits of amps work. This will be my first amp kit build (albeit partial, it seems), so I'm sure there will be some follies along the way. And I will test it with tubes from one of my current amps. So I'm going to pick up some hookup wire this weekend from the hardware store and get started on it. Some of the components do look to be super cheap made (jacks especially), but I think they should do for testing the kit and could be replaced later. There are 2 eyelet boards, main and control, along with the transformers and all parts for the build except for tubes and hookup wire (shielded wire was included). It wasn't clear to me that the boards would be pre-assembled, but I guess it is what it is. The kit is designed to be a 25-watt JCM 800 type amp. Grand total was about $215 for the kit and chassis shipped to my door. I wanted something inexpensive to get started with as a first build, so hopefully this will do. based ebay seller as discussed in the following thread after ibmorjamn talked about getting one of these kits. This is one of the coolest recording setups we’ve ever seen.I picked up one of these cheapo kits directly from KLD (out of China) and a chassis recommended by KLD from a U.S. Pretty snazzy recording gear in the Airstream Bambi:Įqually snazzy lounge area on the other side of the Threadless podcast studio: Photos of the studio interior below the fold… It is definitely a pleasure to come to work everyday and work in this piece of history.” We have a very relaxed atmosphere in our office. When outsiders come into our office the first thing they gravitate to is the Airstream, Flying Cloud, Silver Bullet or whatever you want to call it. Once we brought it home (to Chicago) we gutted it out, and built it all out ourselves, and equipped it with some awesome technology.Įvery week we do a podcast in here, and let people know what is going on in the office and what is going on in the warehouse. What we have here in the pictures is a 1962 Airstream Bambi. “When we first moved into the office, we started building a studio, then we came to the conclusion that we should buy something mobile in case we wanted to take it to the road. Here’s what he had to say about his future-retro-podcast studio: We got in touch with Charlie Festa, Threadless’ Podcasting Liaison. Plus they have a regular podcast, which always wins brownie points from us.īut last month, when looking through their weekly shirt flyer, we clicked on a link that took us to the coolest. We were already fans of the funky t-shirts they sell at Threadless (the punny “ communist party” and “ hypotamoose” t-shirts are in heavy rotation in the PodcastMama shirt drawer). We saw their founders on a panel at South by Southwest in 2006, and they wowed us with their corporate philosophy. We’ve been fans of Skinn圜orp for several years now.
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