The Amp Garage

Shoo goo will work but it is extremely sticky and it will run. Use a bead of silicone instead. It stays where you put it and can be separated from the cap much easier if future removal is necessary.

If you look at the spec sheet for some encapsulating epoxies you'll see that acetone will indeed disolve it...after 30 days of submersion

Seems like most people read what they want into this. It's not about endangered trees. It's about the customs paperwork stating 6mm fretboards while the shipment was actually 10mm fretboards. If you need a finished fretboard that's 6mm thick it starts out as a 10mm thick blank. The impact on the tre...

It's like Billy Zooms own little "gear page"!!! Exactly... I get one piece of useful information out of it though, if it is accurate, and that is that there were some problems with deteriorating solder connections under the silicone. I'd question that. First I don't think that the material Dumble u...

Looking around the forums lately has me wondering why some amp builders have egos so big that they can't even acknowledge that they were influenced by someone else.

That's all. Had to vent.

I was wonder why we couldn't use lexan or other plastics, perhaps smell when heat hits it? Lexan melts very easily and is prone to static charge. It probably won't melt at normal amp temperatures but ESD could eventually ruin some of the low voltage electrolytics and such. Passive components do suf...

M Fowler wrote:I was wonder why we couldn't use lexan or other plastics, perhaps smell when heat hits it?

Lexan melts very easily and is prone to static charge.