Thunderbird Club

[Gaolee]

If it ain't broke, you need to "improve" it in a way that requires subsequent repair. Then fix it in a way that allows for further improvements.

The more complicated the insanity, the more enduring and resilient it is.

Exactly. Rube Goldberg is my second patron saint, behind Alfred E.

 

[JJR58]

@JJR58 you get first dibs....
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I will say this in public here. I so wish. Your're killin me Chuck!

 

[Gaolee]

Maybe I should get the Vintage pro in white, and put the lulls in that one?

That's a brilliant solution!

 

[Butcherboy]

...forgot the pic....

 

[Gaolee]

Just what I needed to hear. . . .

We are here to enable.

 

[PillO]

That sounds like an impedance matching nightmare.

Not really. Running all the power tubes in parallel as push pull pairs, the output transformer would not need to change. The contemplated design would be power section always running at full, but power tubes being pulled out of the circuit when reduced volume is desired (although under what circumstances you might want less volume currently escapes me). In effect, the OT steps the voltage down from ~250v at the plate to ~20v at the speaker (depending on output tap)* regardless of how many tubes are pushing that signal through 250v. The limiting factor would be that the OT can handle the maximum power being pushed by the amp.

Put another way, imagine a 300W SVT. If a 6550 fails, you can pull that pair of tubes and the amp will still run albeit at reduced volume. The idea would be to virtually pull pairs of tubes by disconnecting the plates of those pairs.

* I haven't checked specs nor checked any math, just working from memory and that could be suspect.

 

[PillO]

Exactly. Rube Goldberg is my second patron saint, behind Alfred E.

Prescient for me to change to Wile E on Sunday.

 

[BklynKen]

Here's a set of Probucker 760s for about $250.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Epiphone-Thunderbird-Vintage-PRO-Bass-Antique-White/264464231879

 

[JJR58]

Prescient for me to change to Wile E on Sunday.

 

[dagrev]

Maybe a post on TB or two. Not a book. Yeah. Probably not academic.

Write on brother! Your posts books are more insightful than many "academic" books I regularly encounter in my work. Some are just academic in name only, and simply because a person is a prof and is expected to have some publishing output. Academic puffery. Besides, you write about Thunderbirds!

 

[dagrev]

doggie & THUNDERBIRD!

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Dogs, Thunderbirds and Ampeg PF. What's not to love?

 

[dagrev]

As it turns out I really like Reverse Thunderbirds best and have sold the three Non Reverse Birds that I've owned
Yes, I do regret it......

At one time...

Wow! That's almost too much Thunderbird goodness to take in in one setting.
Eyes darting to the next even better looking Thunderbird.

 

[dagrev]

With all my spare time I've come to several conclusions...
1) A broken bone sucks, a long healing process sucks even more, and daytime TV sucks the most.

Sucks is right. Sucks the brain cells right out of your head.
I was stuck in a waiting room a while back with a TV on with one incredibly stupid show after another. I was trying not to pay attention and still was getting dumber by the minute. Told the nurse I was so glad she rescued me before it was too late and the brain leak was beyond recovery.

 

[Inky13]

Had a bumper crop of Habaneros peppers this year.
I’m trying to find good homes for them but no takers.
They’re giving me angry looks and I’m getting a wee bit nervous.

 

[dagrev]

If it ain't broke, you need to "improve" it in a way that requires subsequent repair. Then fix it in a way that allows for further improvements.

The more complicated the insanity, the more enduring and resilient it is.

Ahhh. The old governmental approach.

 

[BklynKen]

View attachment 3553293 Had a bumper crop of Habaneros peppers this year.
I’m trying to find good homes for them but no takers.
They’re giving me angry looks and I’m getting a wee bit nervous.

I'll take them! I can eat those raw.

 

[PillO]

Ahhh. The old governmental approach.

Except that in government "improve" means change process to increase the number of employees needed to increase the size of the empire and "fix" means reduce service time for 80% of taxpayers by 5% while increasing service time 50% for the remaining 20%. So, yes.

 

[PillO]

View attachment 3553293 Had a bumper crop of Habaneros peppers this year.
I’m trying to find good homes for them but no takers.
They’re giving me angry looks and I’m getting a wee bit nervous.

I would take some off your hands except that I would likely be stopped for illegally importing agricultural products.

I'll take them! I can eat those raw.

I like my hot peppers pickled. I have a jar of pepperoncinis in the fridge that I munch on while burgers are on the grill. I love the squirt of hot sour vinegar when biting into them.

 

[Inky13]

I'll take them! I can eat those raw.

Seriously? You are a brave man. They’re not ghosts or reapers, but they still bring the hurt.

 

[Inky13]

I would take some off your hands except that I would likely be stopped for illegally importing agricultural products.


I like my hot peppers pickled. I have a jar of pepperoncinis in the fridge that I munch on while burgers are on the grill. I love the squirt of hot sour vinegar when biting into them.

I usually ship some every year (shh!) but crossing borders might be problematic.