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items: K-502 pt II Chassis
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K-502 pt II Chassis
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description: Happy New Year everyone. Hope we all had a wonderful holiday. For myself, I was pretty busy with a couple of audio-related project, one of which was to build an enclosure for the K-502 amp that I put together in Nov. I did a couple of mods on it too, but since most of this post is about the chassis, thought I'd post in Craftsman. Like I've said in a previous post, this little amp sounds very good, and not just in a "for-its-price" kind of way. Unfortunatley, the pine board it came with wasn't going to cut it, not from an asthetics, functional nor safety point of view. It deserved a proper chassis. In keeping with the price/performance spirit of the kit, the chassis had to be nice, but inexpensive. No Cardas connectors or binding posts, but at the same time, I made sure the parts were decent. For the chassis, oak panels from Home Depot in the "Handy Panel" area and steel panels from the Metal Supermarket. Rest of the components (except for the Solen caps) were from the local surplus store (Active Surplus) or component store (Supremtronic). I got myself a compound mitre saw over the holiday and got a chance to use it for the mitre cut frame. The saw was a Porter Cable 10" with twin laser guidance discounted from $299 to $199. Funny thing was, it was (and still is) discounted only at my local HD. The saw was (and is) selling for regular price at other HD locations. Epstein, your advice of using masking tape to roll the mitre-cut panels into a frame worked like a charm. I was stubborned though. I tried every which way to hold the pieces together with no success and all but gave up. Finally tried Epstein's crazy masking tape idea when I thought I had nothing else to lose. Big thanks. Do a search on "masking tape" in this forum for more detail from Bill. As you can see, the wood sides are almost an inch thick, so the front and back had to be routed out to almost 1/8" thick (thin?) for me to install the connectors. The top plate is spray painted with two coats of brilliant…
creator: GarMan
date: 2005-01-07T14:04:04-00:00

Sweet!
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description: That's one great loooking amp you built there! Gar's K-502 amp photos
creator: Wayne Parham
date: 2005-01-08T09:31:18-00:00