Peavey 410TX Bass Cab.

[DrNomis_44]

Update:

Managed to make some more progress on the restoration work on my Peavey 410TX Bass Cab, a few minutes ago I finished wiring-up the new crossover for the cab on it's breadboard, here's a pic of it ready to be installed in the cab.

[fender3x]

Very tidy looking work. Did you ever find a Fostex tweet?

[DrNomis_44]

Very tidy looking work. Did you ever find a Fostex tweet?

Not yet I haven't, I'll have to keep looking.


I'm going to be running some tests on the crossover using my function generator, and scope, I will be using two 8.2 Ohm/1W metal film resistors to simulate the speaker loads, this is just to check that the crossover works as it's supposed to, 1W metal film resistors will do fine since the signal level coming out of the function generator is only line level, not speaker level and I will using the function generator to input a signal into the crossover, the power level I'm dealing with is not high enough to do any real damage.

[fender3x]

Sounds like a good plan...unless that iron core coil rusts off it's mount. Ha! I have not gotten to the point of building the crossover in the cab build I am slowly working on, but every time I look at component prices I like the idea of repurposing more! It's one of the nice things about your restoration here. Waste not, want not, rock out ;-)

[DrNomis_44]

Sounds like a good plan...unless that iron core coil rusts off it's mount. Ha! I have not gotten to the point of building the crossover in the cab build I am slowly working on, but every time I look at component prices I like the idea of repurposing more! It's one of the nice things about your restoration here. Waste not, want not, rock out ;-)

Not including the 1.0mH iron cored Choke and the 200uH air cored choke, the rest of the parts, tagstrips and caps, didn't really cost much at all, I bought the 8-way tagstrips and caps from my local Jaycar Electronics store, the wood I used was an off-cut from a piece of 12mm X 140mm X 1.2m pine I bought from Bunnings yesterday, the red and black wire is some 7.5A Auto/Marine power wire, again bought from Jaycar.

But yeah, I do like the whole idea of re-using electronic parts, and stuff you have lying around.


I guess it's an ethic I "inherited" from my parents, see, in my family as I was growing-up as a kid, we always had a strong diy tradition, my mum used to make her own dresses, my dad built our HiFi system, he also did his own carpentry, plumbing, mechanical, and electrical work too, he was a machinist/mechanic by trade, he even designed/built a big reflection telescope because he was into astronomy as well, he also owned a movie camera he used to shoot home movies, one time he built a meat smoker from scratch.

Me and my two brothers were the same too, we used to make our own toys out of bits of wood, my older brother, George, used to build his own Hotrods and compete in races at the local speedway track.

[DrNomis_44]

Update:


I'm just in the process of installing all the new white dampening material in my Peavey 410TX cab, turns out I had ordered more than enough of the material to treat the entire insides of the cab with some material to spare, looks like Murphy is on holidays for me, that is, if you're familiar with Murphy's Law.

[DrNomis_44]

Update:


Just finished installing the Crossover and all the original speakers in the 410TX cab and......She Works!!!!!


The cab is now making sound again, just need to get the tweeter installed.

[Trevor Davies]

Great news. Murphy must be holidaying in Perth!!

[DrNomis_44]

Just been trying it out with the Fender Super Twin and my 6-string bass, it has a really fat and warm sound to it if you turn up the volume.

Going to do a demo recording of it later on so you can hear what it sounds like.

Here's what it currently looks like:

[fender3x]

That is the perfect mad scientist rig. You just need to install a flux capacitor on your pedalboard ;-)

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