Rebuild?? **Your advice please**

[Keith Rowland]

Dave:  It probably will work OK the way it is, but personally, I
couldn't stand knowing it wasn't put together properly!  I would fix the
leads.

73, Keith

Dave Edwards wrote:
>
> I came across an old Heath stereo amp using EL34s.
> It looks like it was built yesterday!. Even the line chord is
> smooth and clean. The plastic is shiney, and all metal pieces are
> bright and shiney.
> Now, while the soldering looks good enough, the problem is that it looks like
> none of the component leads were clipped to correct length.
> All the resistors are hanging by long lead lengths.
> I have not tried it yet, 'cuz I want to make sure none of those long
> leads are touching anything they shouldn't.
>
> Do you think I should just 'unbuild' it and put it back together with
> new resistors?
> Its not RF, so the lead lengths should not matter sonically. Or perhaps
> it will matter in the pickup of hum??
> What do you think?
> Tnx fer reading....Dave
>
> Dave Edwards  WB2TBB
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