I've got a Vaporizer, I like it (a lot). I'm using it at home as a stereo setup with my Princeton Clone head. My only gripe is the bloody thing is huge, 2 foot wide ( 60ish cm for the metric amongst us ), tall and a weird tapered shape. So i'm planning on putting the amp section into a head (along with the reverb tank) so I can use it with my other cab and it won't be enormous.
I've opened it up, its do-able but the valves will sit horizontally, i'm not moving it much so they should be fine. I'm not aware that the vaporizer is or will be a collectors item so I'm not concerned on keeping it original. I was hoping to re-jig the insides and make a new chassis to make it smaller but I'd have to sit the transformers under the PCB which doesnt seem like a good idea (without modding it will be about 50cm wide, if I were to chop it into a new chassis then i'd get it to about 35-40cm)
Should I ? Or just leave it well alone and live in it if I have to sell my house?
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You might be better off doing the exact opposite - separating the speaker wiring so you can use one with the Vaporizer amp section (the impedance mismatch won't matter if you're not cranking it) and the other with the Princeton head.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I wanted to try one out for a while, same with the excelsior and one of the other pawn shop type chinese amps they put out.
Of all the things that annoy me about the shape , the bowtie hole oddly isnt one of them.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I butchered it
I reused some of the wood from the cabinet, some of it was too rough to use. It's a bit scrappy but it works well enough, I'm torn between leaving it is and calling it the scrapamp or getting some cloth to cover it. I'll think it over, but it is much better having the knobs on the front ( as mother nature intended)
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I think i can remember trying to see if a 12 would fit in the chassis.
I think it was an alnico cream, so unsurprisingly it didn't fit.
Go forth and Vaporize!
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