ACME Instruments

Portrait of a Junk Yard Dog. Cleaning out the garage and threw this together, a 50’s(?) Don McGohan M 8 PA paired with a 16 ohm(!) Philco 12”. Not sure about the cabinet, Silvertone maybe? The M 8 circuit is wacky, both triodes in the 12AX7 are grid leak biased, so it’s a dirt box! The only other grid leak second gain stage I’ve seen was in a Newcomb and it also sounded too kool to mess with. The single ended 6L6 may well be good for 8 watts too, it moves some air plugged into a 4x12! Here’s to all the Hillbilly Rigs out there

Hope y’all are enjoying all the Fall colors(of Fuzz), happy autumn friends! It’s been a few years since the Fuzzbug has bitten, here’s a new twist on a fave, the enigmatic ‘Amplified Superfuzz’ entry in the forgotten tome ‘99 Electronics Projects.’

Nerd Alert!🚨 I have been obsessing with and collecting vintage k***s since I was a kid. And in all my decades of digging thru mountainous untold buckets of old radio/stove/military/industrial k***s, buttons, and thingies in surplus spots, hamfests, and urban reclamation stores, I have never seen these colors of Dakaware. The ‘tele’ barrel switch tips are OG, but what the heck did they come off??? Thickening the plot, one in this pile was painted over white(can you spot it?) apparently to match two other lavender ones. Maybe someone crafted it to replace a missing one on whatever fabulous device these were made for.

Spotted on the MV Chimacum ferry, my questions have a few questions of their own…

Any broom nerds out there who can answer them?