{"id":685,"date":"2012-08-08T11:51:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T15:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timramich.com\/?p=685"},"modified":"2013-04-23T14:52:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T18:52:10","slug":"bottlehead-crack-build-log-update-august-8-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.timramich.com\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"Bottlehead Crack build log: Teardown, top plate design, and capacitor brackets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got it all torn down days ago.&nbsp; I haven't decided if I am going to get another top plate laser cut or just modify this one.&nbsp; I want to go with a Bulgin switch, and not in the stock location.&nbsp; It's in a bad location where I have the amp sit I burn myself on the tube reaching for the switch to turn it off.&nbsp; I have a top plate designed in AutoCAD.&nbsp; I'm just waiting to hear from a place about laser cutting and if I need to add any considerations for beam width (maybe someone here could help me?).&nbsp; I drew everything literally the size I want it to wind up.&nbsp; The new tube sockets are smaller in diameter, so I ended up shrinking those holes in the drawing.&nbsp; I will still need a few more holes to mount a board that does the on\/off latching and delays the signal to the headphones because I don't feel like putting the massive effort into pressing the latch to remove the headphones every time I turn it off, and I don't feel comfortable leaving them plugged in when I power it on.<\/p>\r\n<br>\r\n<p>The transformer end bell ended up ugly and rusty with all of the skin oils from handling.&nbsp; Oh well.&nbsp; That's getting powder coated and it was the plan from the get-go.<\/p>\r\n<br>\r\n<a href=http:\/\/timramich.com\/headphone_amp\/2012-08-06_19-41.jpg target=\"_blank\"><img src=http:\/\/timramich.com\/headphone_amp\/2012-08-06_19-41_thumb.jpg><\/a>\r\n<a href=http:\/\/timramich.com\/headphone_amp\/top_plate.png target=\"_blank\"><img src=http:\/\/timramich.com\/headphone_amp\/top_plate_thumb.png><\/a>\r\n<br><br>\r\n<p>I got the capacitor brackets from Shapeways today.<\/p>\r\n<br>\r\n<a href=http:\/\/timramich.com\/headphone_amp\/2012-08-08_17-12.jpg target=\"_blank\"><img src=http:\/\/timramich.com\/headphone_amp\/2012-08-08_17-12_thumb.jpg><\/a>\r\n<a href=http:\/\/timramich.com\/headphone_amp\/2012-08-08_17-13.jpg target=\"_blank\"><img src=http:\/\/timramich.com\/headphone_amp\/2012-08-08_17-13_thumb.jpg><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got it all torn down days ago.&nbsp; I haven&#8217;t decided if I am going to get another top plate laser cut or just modify this one.&nbsp; I want to go with a Bulgin switch, and not in the stock location.&nbsp; It&#8217;s in a bad location where I have the amp sit I burn myself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.timramich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.timramich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.timramich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.timramich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.timramich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.timramich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"http:\/\/blog.timramich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.timramich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.timramich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.timramich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}