Mike P
Trade: Pickwell Audio
I appreciate that there have already been several Leak Stereo 20 restoration threads here but here I go again with another one.
This is my fourth Stereo 20 restoration and by far the most in-depth restoration so far.
I bought this particular example from @Rosewind a few years ago and it has been in my 'to do' pile until a few weeks ago, when I finally got around to tackling it.
I bought it knowing that it had been rebuilt at some point (as evidenced by all the non-original parts) and I naively thought it would therefore be a easy refurb.
As you can see it had been crudely sprayed satin black at some point. All of the valve bases apart from the one for the GZ34 have been replaced, new speaker wire bindings posts and phono sockets have been fitted and the circuit board has been *rebuilt* with many replacement parts.
20210503_150220 by Michael Pickwell, on Flickr
20210503_150237 by Michael Pickwell, on Flickr
On closer inspection though the rebuild turned out to be a really truly awful job. Very messy with poor soldering everywhere. Oh dear.
20220501_190232 by Michael Pickwell, on Flickr
Oh dear oh dear.
20210503_150426 by Michael Pickwell, on Flickr
This is my fourth Stereo 20 restoration and by far the most in-depth restoration so far.
I bought this particular example from @Rosewind a few years ago and it has been in my 'to do' pile until a few weeks ago, when I finally got around to tackling it.
I bought it knowing that it had been rebuilt at some point (as evidenced by all the non-original parts) and I naively thought it would therefore be a easy refurb.
As you can see it had been crudely sprayed satin black at some point. All of the valve bases apart from the one for the GZ34 have been replaced, new speaker wire bindings posts and phono sockets have been fitted and the circuit board has been *rebuilt* with many replacement parts.
20210503_150220 by Michael Pickwell, on Flickr
20210503_150237 by Michael Pickwell, on Flickr
On closer inspection though the rebuild turned out to be a really truly awful job. Very messy with poor soldering everywhere. Oh dear.
20220501_190232 by Michael Pickwell, on Flickr
Oh dear oh dear.
20210503_150426 by Michael Pickwell, on Flickr