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There were these amps for sale, and well, I bought them...

DonMarks said:
Radford color scheme is so elegant and utilitarian at the same time. Would love to hear any radford one day
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I think their form is very pleasing on the eye :) I thought the STA15 looked good, but these MA15s just look "so cute and dinky", I quote my daughter there.

I have now removed the PCB from one amp for checking the resistors and discovered that there is plenty of green rot in the wiring, much more than I could originally see.
 
That's a dilemma then...
Do you make a matching pair, colour wise, or retain the different colours of the originals? Ummmm?
 
snowman_al said:
That's a dilemma then...
Do you make a matching pair, colour wise, or retain the different colours of the originals? Ummmm?
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That's kinda interesting. I'd not noticed that they might be slightly different shades of loveliness, probably because I've not had them out of their boxes at the same time - they came in their original, factory boxes too!

I'm not going to re-paint them, part of their charm is just what they are, foibles and all :)
 
sq225917 said:
Nice, were they a steal?
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They were reasonable priced, certainly not one of those "I found them in a skip one morning whilst I was out on my bike" moments. I'm happy with what I paid for them and really I couldn't find many sales on the internet to gauge a price.

However, the pleasure, frustration and happiness I'll get from servicing them out weighs the cost...never mind the fun from listening :)

Happy, happy, joy, joy.
 
It was the wiring colours I had in mind. In response to a ''complete rewire then?'' The chassis colours are often very slightly different shades and part of there charm as you say...
 
snowman_al said:
It was the wiring colours I had in mind. In response to a ''complete rewire then?'' The chassis colours are often very slightly different shades and part of there charm as you say...
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Yeah, certainly some of the wiring is different colours, especially the heater wires to the pre-amp connector (I think it is those) and the valves.

Also, the mains input is slightly different with one with a choc-block and one without. I would like to get my hands on a replacement choc-block (there are holes for the nuts and bolts to secure them) and bring them both to the same visual look. Though, the more I look the more differences I see between them, one has rubber grommets for the through chassis holes and the other has a turned, metal lip.

I wonder what they sound like? :)
 
However, the pleasure, frustration and happiness I'll get from servicing them out weighs the cost...never mind the fun from listening :)

I know that feeling
 
Green rot on the impedance switch :(



Couple of wires on the rectifier base simply snapped off with the rot.
 
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