{"id":829,"date":"2012-10-26T08:42:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T12:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timramich.com\/?p=829"},"modified":"2013-04-23T14:38:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T18:38:24","slug":"bottlehead-crack-build-log-started-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.timramich.com\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"Bottlehead Crack build log: Started building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got sick of trying to figure out a powder coater and trying to find a mill, so I just started assembling last night.&nbsp; I spent about 6 hours putting it together.&nbsp; I was so tired when I was finished I could barely keep my eyes open or even mentally focus to find a power cord.&nbsp; The only thing I didn't finish was wiring in the power button.&nbsp; When I fired it up the tubes glowed, but no LEDs lit up.&nbsp; I looked at the schematic and figured that there was no high voltage being supplied to the tubes, so I tested the supply.&nbsp; Nothing.&nbsp; I traced my wiring and noticed that I forgot to solder the wirewound resistor lead to 13L.&nbsp; I soldered it up, fired it back up, and everything lit up like it should.&nbsp; I plugged in my headphones and there was a pretty loud hiss going on, but after a minute it quieted down completely.&nbsp; It sounds slightly better than before due to the Speedball.&nbsp; It's been months since I've heard it, so it's impossible to be certain what difference it made.&nbsp; I only got to snap one picture of a bunch of stuff mounted to the top plate.&nbsp; I ran out of #4-40 torx screws, so I am going to wait until I receive the rest of them to take the final pictures.&nbsp; I regret going with this silver-plated stranded wire.&nbsp; Even tinned, it was a pain in the ass to wrap around terminals.<\/p>\r\n<br>\r\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=http:\/\/timramich.com\/headphone_amp\/2012-10-25_18-44.jpg><img src=http:\/\/timramich.com\/headphone_amp\/2012-10-25_18-44_thumb.jpg><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got sick of trying to figure out a powder coater and trying to find a mill, so I just started assembling last night.&nbsp; I spent about 6 hours putting it together.&nbsp; I was so tired when I was finished I could barely keep my eyes open or even mentally focus to find a power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.timramich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829"}],"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=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.timramich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"http:\/\/blog.timramich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.timramich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.timramich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.timramich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}