Sorry for the lack of progress on the 6L6 SE-UL. I really wanted to get the chassis finished off this week but several factors have conspired to keep me from working on it.
The first factor is paint. I’ve been looking for another brand of spray paint to use and think I have found one. However, there’s a catch. The manufacturer makes their paint in four sheens: Matte, Satin, Semi-Gloss, and Gloss. But it seems that the very particular solvents used for their semi-gloss are in short supply right now. As such, so is their semi-gloss paint. If the situation doesn’t improve in a couple of weeks, I’ve decided that I’ll be going with a gloss finish on the metal as well. It will work out ok, it’s just not what I had intended at first.
The second factor is some other commitments. The heat here finally broke so I’ve been helping my daughter with her house build. We are to the point of installing standing seam metal roofing. Something that’s hard to do when the temperatures are in the mid 90s °F (≈35°C). I’ve only done shingle and shake roofs before so every aspect of this is a learning experience. Especially, since this is a hidden fastener system, there’s a lot of things you need to do in just the right order. So the roof is going slowly but we are making progress.
The third factor in my amp delay is that the fruits and vegetables are coming in here. Fresh fruits and vegetables means canning season is upon us. We just picked about 40# of blueberries some of which are being pickled for holiday meals and some have already been made into jam. And I’ve just brought in about 25# of cucumbers which will be made into dill pickles and bread-and-butter pickles; about 30 pints in all. And in just a week or two, the first of the sweet corn will be in and that means corn relish. Probably about 24 pints. When the apples come in I’ll also be putting up jars of pie filling. The problem with canning is you have to do it when the produce comes in, so it kind of trumps everything else. This spring, when the first asparagus was only $1 a bunch, I put up about 15 jars of pickled asparagus. We eat on this stock of stuff all through out the year. It really adds nice variety through the winter months and some of it, like the pickles and asparagus, make great snack food.
My hope is that I’ll be able to find the paint I need and get the amplifier chassis finished up. As soon as the chassis is done, the amp should go together in rather short order.
As always, questions and comments are welcome.