Well, components have been ordered but it turns out I was a little optimistic on the lead times. ?
I’ve already received the first package but I’m not likely to receive much more before the weekend. Don’t think it’ll be a problem though because I have quite a lot of chassis work to get on with, including removing the last extraneous components, cleaning it thoroughly (possibly giving it a quick sand if I feel industrious) and of course drilling the holes for the new components.
I’ve put together a simple sketchup model to help plan the layout. I’ve tried as far as possible to keep everything transformer side of the old expression pedal tower (big light grey box… I’m keeping it there for the moment because it’s the same height as the power TRX so you can easily turn the chassis upside down). The broad idea is to build a second channel of some flavor in the remaining space at some indeterminate point in the future. My big constraint is the output transformer as I don’t really want any controls directly next to it.
The white cladding on the outside is intended to be 50mm aluminum bar that I picked up some time ago. There are holes from old components on all four sides, which need to be covered but I don’t want to lose space on the inside so I’m thinking of using it as face plate. The only downside is that it’s slightly narrower than chassis is tall so it won’t cover the full height. I’ll have a look over the weekend and see if it’ll work.
I’ve also included two terminal strips on the underside that should help quite a lot with the point to point wiring.
If all goes according to plan (and I don’t cut my hand off in the process) I should have a prepared chassis by the end of the weekend and I’ll be able to start on the component layout and assembly.
The 'black/brown' toggle in the tone stack switches between standard blackface and a pseudo brownface tonestack with the center position being 'raw' mode.
