Like I said to WhiteRaven, I live in South Africa, which has really slow post. I am looking for an alternative I can source locally. I can order it straight fro Bottlehead, or one of the Ebay retailers which are all in the UK, both options mean I will have to wait for the terrible post...

Is that the only way, because I live in South Africa and the post is VERY slow. Is there not some alternative I can use that I might be able to source locally? If not I will just be without my Crack for a while. 

Ok so a complete disaster has befallen me. In the process of removing the sockets I broke one of the LEDs in the 9 pin socket. I have no idea what to replace it with, or if the crack might work without it. Can somebody please let me know what I can do about it. Thank you in advance for any help.

 This is the image I was talking about.

Hello Funyunbreath,   I saw this picture of you Crack about a year ago and was very impressed, in fact I am sure I commented on it. I have a question for you though, I have bought the same tube sockets with adapters and I just want to know how the are installed. The main part of my concern...

  Is that a HRT musicstreamer II in the background? How is it with the Crack? Are you enjoying the combo?

Damn,I was about to reply and tell you to just upgrade your volume pot with an Alps Blue velvet pot, apparently it sorts out the channel imbalance and it is pretty cheap. (20 dollars) But if you found a solution I am glad.

I would really enjoy building another crack, but the South African post is really slow, so transport will take awhile.

Wow, have I just been through an ordeal with my Crack, It all started with my RCA jacks failing, I then got a replacement for them, which worked for about half a song and then it gave out. I went through a long process to figure out what has gone wrong, I then assumed (Lets say made an...

I have the same soldering iron. :thumbsup: That looks pretty cool. What does your base look like? Or if you haven't done it yet, what plans do you have for it? And are you planning to listen to Justin Beiber on it?

That looks great,   Is that a Khozmo attenuator? If it is, then your case must be massive, because it looks so small. :-P But good job.

Wow thanks for the great reply.   The problem is across both channels and when I started it up today, there was just distortion straight of the bat, so I couldn't note a change in filament glow. In fact the signal barely came through at all. As far as I could tell the soldering was fine, So I...

Hello everyone, I am sorry that I am not the most helpful member and always need help but I have a new problem. So I am going to start at the beginning, A couple of months ago the bolts that hold my RCA jacks to the chassis plate gave out and the RCAs shorted out against the chassis plate...

I just gave the go ahead, and I am so excited to hear what all the rage is about.

Well that makes me feel better because I am buying it from vacuumtubes.net which I have only heard great things about and their responses have been great so I think I am going to go for it. Thanks for the help guys.