We were up in the mountains for a weekend in January and I managed to take the time to visit Steven.
Big thanks to Steven and his wife and had a very enjoyable evening catching up and enjoying some great music and fine sound.
While I was there we tried my modified Leak Steven's Quads and while it was pretty good, Steven spotted a potential (no pun intended) problem with a couple of the Ampohm cans possibly shorting against some resistors.
So next day I fire up the soldering iron and reposition the caps so as to give more clearance to the board and when I fire it up there's a high frequency howl on one channel .......... wtf
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So fast forward a couple of days and find out my brother in Melbourne had a stroke so the whole audio thing was put on hold for a while.
He's now staying us while he is recuperating and yesterday thanks to the rain, I managed to have another look at the stereo 20.
The solens I had fitted for the el84 cathode resistor bypass were supported by stick on pads and cable ties.
Probably due to the amp being moved around one of the caps was loose and had pressed on the 1k resistor to the driver tube and one leg had come away.
I desoldered the resistor and had some 10mm angle aluminium I had bought a while ago as I was never comfortable with those stick on pads and spent a couple of hours attaching the solens much more securely and thankfully all seems well with the Leak again :
Hope to make another trip up to the mountains soon.