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D'Yquem update.

A couple of days ago a friend I made on this site, Rene aka restock offered to come over and try to help me with my amp issue.

He arrived with a tube tester, multimeter and extra tubes and fuses.

We tested first the 300b's. They tested fine. This did not surprise me as my issue had been that the amp shut down after about 30 seconds and I saw no evidence of tube burn out.

We then tested the 6 AW8A's. As expected they tested good as well.

We then turned the amp upside down and removed the bottom. We checked the fuse and tested it. It was also good.

Inside the amp are are two GE 6 AL3 tubes soldered to very short wires. We decided to check these as well. The first one tested good but the second one was dead.

We broke the solder and removed the bad tube and replaced it with a matching GE tube. Rene soldered the new 6AL3 to the internal wire, replaced the rubber grommet.

We then re-biased the 300b tubes to the proper setting and buttoned up the amp.

We also had to replace the fuse in the power cord socket as it had burned out.

Powered the amp up and lo and behold, MUSIC.

Many thanks to Rene for helping me out, without his help I would not be listening to these superb amps as I type.

If not for both of us being members of AA this wonderful experience would not have happened.

Thanks again Rene and AA.