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The wife's building a champ...

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Thought I'd share here, my wife was curious about amp building, after watching me do it, and said she may want to learn/help. I decided having her build a champ would be an interesting process, and may help people on the fence about building amps to give it a try. I already posted video one and two :

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Dude! Get her to sign up and post here at TAG, so we'll have, like, 200% as many women!
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I'll ask her to. She's still very new and I think intimidated about how much she still doesn't understand. I ramble on all the time about cathode followers, dc coupled stages etc, and she glasses over ;) She's smart as hell, though, and if she really enjoys it, I'm sure she'll get into it really deeply pretty soon.

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xtian wrote: Wed Apr 05, 2017 3:14 pm Dude! Get her to sign up and post here at TAG, so we'll have, like, 200% as many women!
Right on! BTW where's Janna? She did beautiful builds, I think in Minnesota. Went missing about the same time TAG's troubles with Google started. Somebody oughta let her know, TAG's back in business, going on all 8 cylinders. And thanks for that, pompeii!
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Leo_Gnardo wrote:
xtian wrote: Wed Apr 05, 2017 3:14 pm Dude! Get her to sign up and post here at TAG, so we'll have, like, 200% as many women!
Right on! BTW where's Janna? She did beautiful builds, I think in Minnesota. Went missing about the same time TAG's troubles with Google started. Somebody oughta let her know, TAG's back in business, going on all 8 cylinders. And thanks for that, pompeii!
You're very welcome I already tried, she seemed curious I think, but not quite sure. I'll let her know you guys still want her to join up

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Here's video 3! :)


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... a wife that is into building amps with you. You LUCKY bastard!
My exwife acted like building amps was the other woman in my life. She used to say "Sometimes, I think you'd rather be with your amp than me". I would remind her that firstly, my amp works. Secondly, when my amp starts screeching with a loud, high pitch noise, I can get it to stop. Then she would say "well, it's a good thing your amp can take a quarter inch input". Then I would say "Hey!, that's not nice".
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SoulFetish wrote:... a wife that is into building amps with you. You LUCKY bastard!
My exwife acted like building amps was the other woman in my life. She used to say "Sometimes, I think you'd rather be with your amp than me". I would remind her that firstly, my amp works. Secondly, when my amp starts screeching with a loud, high pitch noise, I can get it to stop. Then she would say "well, it's a good thing your amp can take a quarter inch input". Then I would say "Hey!, that's not nice".
Lol I'm dying. So funny. Yeah I am. Very lucky

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My wife helps with amp builds from time to time, but I use her more to just inspect my work. She is IPC-610 Class 3 certified, and is great at finding problem solder joints and touching them up. I just wish I could get her to quit using liquid flux... what a mess...
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Garthhog wrote:My wife helps with amp builds from time to time, but I use her more to just inspect my work. She is IPC-610 Class 3 certified, and is great at finding problem solder joints and touching them up. I just wish I could get her to quit using liquid flux... what a mess...
Very cool! That would be great having someone able to check things like that

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In video 4, Angie populates the main board and solders it together.


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Next steps are the chassis in prep for the board to be installed...
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That's so cool! :D

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Yeah mines the 117 but I think they're really close in features etc. I do love it as well.

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pompeiisneaks wrote: Fri Apr 28, 2017 8:46 pm Yeah mines the 117 but I think they're really close in features etc. I do love it as well.

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Okay fancy pants :P just kidding. They look identical.
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