Er, mate, what it is, I like bought this amp on Ebay and, er…?
…and the wife said what was actually rather a hurtful thing when you unwrapped the parcel, about it matching all the other bits of old crap that don’t work that you’ve been filling the house with. The ‘investment’ argument doesn’t seem to wash with her, and actually, it really doesn’t work, does it, and that’s going to be a little bit hard to explain. But that’s ok! I can fix it! …Probably! Really, buying a pre-printed circuit valve amp that’s bust isn’t really all that stupid (though some of the prices are). Worst case scenario – one or another of the transformers burned up, and it took some stuff with it, including whatever shorted out and burned it up in the first place. Then someone put it in a skip, then someone else took it out and put it in his shed in a sack with a load of other stuff he got out of skips (he wasn’t married, obviously). Twenty years go by, time takes its toll, and the executor of his will finds it in the shed and puts it on Ebay with all his other bits and p
