... with my new maggotbox

wayne3burk

I think there was someone on here who posted a long time ago that he has rebuilt magnavox amps.

Well I recently picked this up from my local thrift and I'd like to convert it to stand alone use ( lose the pigtail and replace with on/of switch ).

Any and all help in this regard is greatly appreciated.

TIA,
Wayne

mrbigbluelight

Any numbers on the chassis, or model number it was pulled from ? Date/age ?

Poee7R

My first tube amp was a console pull, wasnt a bad little piece.


Dave

mhardy6647

There is a Magnavoxfriends Yahoo group with a fair amount of information.

I've got a console with that EL84 push-pull amp (or very similar) in the basement :-) They are surprisingly good sounding little amplifiers.



Here's some more possibly helpful/interesting info:

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=103122&highlight=magnavox
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=294526&highlight=magnavox
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=192601&highlight=magnavox

wayne3burk

mrbigbluelight wrote: »

Any numbers on the chassis, or model number it was pulled from ? Date/age ?

9302 - 00 on the chasis

I believe i saw a february 1961 date somewhere in there.

-- wayne --

mhardy6647

Keiko wrote: »

Is there anything you don't have, mrh? (That's a compliment, btw.)

They sure don't build 'em like that anymore.

I don't have any of those "SRA"-style Polks :-P

Thanks for the compliment; I am a "collector" (in the sense that Fred Sanford was a "collector").

When you look at the output iron on those Maggotboxes and the modest construction values, it is astonishing how good those little amps sound.

mhardy6647

OOps, that was supposed to say "SDA"... you know what I meant, right? :-)