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5E3 TRINITY TWEED AMP BUILD (oct/22/12)

amp came to day checked all the parts
looks like every thing is here...read all night.

oct/23/12

read most of last night , started putting her together today.
one step at a time .

Finely got it rite I hope ;; it looks good

Greetings from a first time Tramp builder (built about a year ago, the amp is running fine).

Nice going.

Please keep posting.

I'll be following your thread because your pictures and explanations are great and I'm interested in eventually building a 5e3.

One of your filter caps is backwards!

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Actually,there are 3 backwards,the small 25uf on the far left and the 3rd 16uf and the middle 25 uf, if I'm not mistaken.

thanks guys i have it now caps flow north south do the resisters have a inline flow

Your resistors are not polarity sensitive.

Caps look good now. The rest are'nt polarized. Practive your soldering and get a good hot, shiny solder joint. Very important. 25W iron, .032" flux core solder.

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heres where im at today picked up my tools yesterday 15 hr of work and !!!

Looks good. And a healthy snack to boot!!

Keep it neat and it will be fine! Short wires!

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well i dont know ... im going to chase the wiring down at least 2 more time just to make sure im
tired and more tired ;;;
good night

well the speaker UPSed in today. Holy cow its beautiful its a 12A125.A alnico ,, WOW !!!!
i have to finish the cab, have all the hardware ,tweed ,and grill cloth ,,,

have had the amp tested ;; a few small errors but shes fine and quite ! he told the wires were
to short to ;; he showed me some of his amps and how to do it right ;; hes a service rep for a kit
company , ran into him at a guitar shop where i live showing the guys that work there his latest,
a jtm 45 head . my new best friend !!!

ive been away but have made some progress

Some more pics I am going to make another cab made lots of mistakes its just time and 20 bucks for a pine board .. dose not look bad in pics but it is bad !!

i got the tweed done to day .. i will never build my own cabinet again .. next time i will buy one !!!
the good thing is that it looks more like a 50 year old closet find..witch is kinda cool

That looks pretty good! Well done! My cab should be done this week too, then I can take my tweed for walkies

Tweeding takes about twice as long to do as Tolex. And people wonder why it should cost more!

There is a pretty good tutorial on this forum on doing it on a tweed style cabinet

http://www.trinityamps.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2938

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