I know that I told myself I was going to give the paint on the 6L6 SE-UL top plate a week to harden before I started assembly. But then I thought “Hey there’s other assembly I could perform”. So that’s what I did.
Continue readingA while back in this post, “6L6 SE-UL Primed for Progress“, I mentioned that I would no longer be painting the exposed bottom plates of projects which won’t be seen. What that statement actually meant was that I would be leaving the aluminum in a bare “as delivered” finish. Or maybe with just a little steel wool polishing. But I’m now modifying that stance slightly.
Continue readingAfter many delays I have finally finished the 6L6 SE-UL chassis. The paint is still soft but I should get started mounting parts in a week or so, as soon and the paint hardens appropriately.
Continue readingI suppose by now everyone is wondering what has happened to the 6L6 SE-UL amp project. Well, so am I. Kind of.
Continue readingSorry for the lack of progress on the 6L6 SE-UL. I really wanted to get the chassis finished off this week but several factors have conspired to keep me from working on it.
Continue readingAfter my mistake with the finish, the top and front plates for the 6L6 SE-UL are now back to bare metal. Now begins the “Great Paint Hunt”.
Continue readingSo the black finish has set up and I think it looks far better than the grey. So, again, as long as there’s no uproarious outcry, I’ll be going with the black. I think this finish ties the whole project together much better than the grey would have done.
Continue readingAs promised, after the primer was fully dry I took the power transformer down to my shop and put it together with the grey top on the chassis. Whereas the grey would make for an interesting look, I think I’ll like the black better. So unless there’s an uproarious outcry from the amp builders of the world, that’s the way I’ll be going.
Continue readingSorry about the title; I couldn’t resist. I got some time today so I applied the primer to the metal for the 6L6 SE-UL amp. The primer takes 24 hours to fully dry so tomorrow I’ll place it in the amp with an Edcor transformer on top and show everyone what the grey looks like with the spalted alder.
Continue readingThe fact that it’s been two and a half weeks since my last post should be an indication of just how busy I’ve been. However, I have been making progress on the 6L6 SE-UL in the background whenever I could. And now I’m happy to report that the chassis is complete and all the metal has been drilled and fitted to the finished chassis.
Continue readingI now have five coats of oil on the amp chassis and the color is incredible. But this finish isn’t going to be like the last couple of projects. The wood is just too different.
Continue readingThe second coat of oil went on the 6L6 SE-UL chassis this morning. The oil is bringing out something in the wood which was totally unexpected; color!
Continue readingYesterday I did the final metal fitting and drilled the mounting holes in the metal pieces. This allowed me to finish up all the marking and drilling on the wood chassis. This morning I applied the first coat of oil to the spalted alder. It looks very good.
Continue readingI’ve been on vacation for the last couple of weeks but I’m back now and ready to get moving on the 6L6 SE-UL amplifier.
Continue readingI have finally finished cutting and marking all the metal for the new amp. Now comes the long process of getting all the pieces drilled and finished.
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