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.

Hello guys, I have another question, I am about to buy a Tung-sol 5998 and an Amperex 12AU7 tube. I just got test results for these tubes and am just curious if they are good. I know that I should be able to read these results but they seem to differ based on the tube tester you use. Or at...

Hello guys, I have another question, I am about to buy a Tung-sol 5998 and an Amperex 12AU7 tube. I just got test results for these tubes and am just curious if they are good. I know that I should be able to read these results but they seem to differ based on the tube tester you use. Or at...

What ab What about the bugle boy. As far as I know that is the best varient of the Amperex 12AU7 (and the most expensive) but that is for the HD 650 the best option, as far as I've heard. They can be found for around $70 for a good one.

Sorry for taking so long to reply, thank you for the help, I was able to get those Furutech RCA's for a really good price, so I thought "Why not" I get it, is probably a bit ridiculous but whatever :-P, thank for offering help about getting some RCA's to me though. I still have the question...

Oh but my crack is pretty new, I got it half way through last year (ordered it) so hopefully it will be the right size otherwise I can just drill the hole to the right size. The problem with the RCA jacks is that as far as selection goes I kinda have to buy these ones because in South Africa I...

Hello guys, This forum is great and very helpful. I have another question about my RCA sockets though. They have lost all the thread on their screws and will not work anymore so I want to replace them. Where I live the only ones I can get seem to be the Furutech FP-900 and I want to know if they...

Hello everyone,   I am having a problem with the nut that holds down my RCA jacks. They keep coming loose and it is at the point now where I can't get a signal through my amp. Is it possible that I just buy two new nuts to screw them on with? If it is, what size and material should they be...

  I would be very interested to hear what you think of that Amperex tube compared to your other tubes. I heard it is fantastic.

  I actually have a question about this, does this mean that with HD 650's you can use Caps of around 50uf, because the headphones are only rated to go down to 10hz anyway. So if the Amp can't produce a signal lower than that it doesn't really matter?

Thank you everybody for the replies, They all helped a great deal in understanding how the capacitor values work.