Any time again my Belgian friend!

Steve bought my last three MS275 amps. Easy communication, fast payment. Recommended buyer.
Thanks and I'll keep a eye open for the other things you asked for.
Nico

Haven't been around for some time, a lot of gear has been carried into the house since then [ see pics] and some has been taken out again as usual. The rebuild University Classic's are at my brother-in-law's house now. He kept asking about them and I had two sets of cornerhorns stashed at my work at...

ttocs wrote: SUPER nice people that was for sure, I mean better then the Parisians needless to say

You got that right buddy........ been there.

WOW. How I wish there was less water [and miles] between us. Would love to drive around like you did and see with my own eyes.
Thanks for doing that for me.
The "sunrise over the valley"-pic is now my new screensaver.
Nico

When competing at SPL soundoffs in the late 90's , we took a sine wave generator and hooked it up to the preamp. Next we took a rta analyzer set at SPL, started the generator around 30Hz with gain set at reasonable volume and swept slowly up. This way you will find the resonance frequency of your sy...

Good work so far. If you manage to save both cyclones then you're my hero......

Remember to carefully mask the areas as shown in the tutorial before spraying the coating onto the core.
Nico

Well, I'm going to keep an eye on this thread..... hope you can teach me something new as it's always good to see how other people solve their problem[s].....

Nico

So sorry to hear this news.....we were informed by one of our PG friends [ Paul aka zeropoint.05] here in Europe.
Our condolances for all involved.
a small contribution send for some flowers or support in another way.

Nico and family from The Netherlands.

Ouch.. that hurts my eyes.

I think there's going to be one to look at and one to listen to.....
Nico

Can you post a picture of the broken off area, so we can have a look? A big piece broken off , will affect the movement of the vanes [ output of the cyclone] but if it's not too large I'd say go for it. I would defenately go for the normal treatment of the core, cleaning- procedure and check the out...

You could try, scraping into the debri with a valve- clearance gauge like used in the car industry and work your way down while holding a vacuumcleaner close to the area you work on. This way you could loose some of the debri bit by bit and in the end get the coil out. This does take patience though...

Applying spray helps to keep the core together. The magnet will loose small particles over time, the spray just keeps them bonded to the core longer. The cyclones I serviced back when making this thread still kick ass. When you don't apply any spray, particles will get stuck between the core and coi...

THANKS for the good advice guys. "Bertje" over here in The Netherlands offered to have a look at it, he's done many car-amp repairs already and knows how these things work. He's also got a very good website on which he explains all the basics of caraudio [in Dutch]. Will let you know how i...

Has anyone experience with repairing this amp ? Amp plays but not loud enough, the "diagnostic" led is lit [red]. This oldskool beast was bought by a friend of mine and I'd like to help him but there's not much professional help available over here in The Netherlands. Manual says; when pro...

Ehhhh.... that's asking for pics of Nico#2 only bud... Nico#1 is yours truly.

ttocs wrote:depends on how much blood gets in them I know

there is no need to slice anything up to test ignition wires. Its normally not too hard to find a harness where the connection is exposed or else I had a test lead on my meter that was sharpened so you could go through the insulation(and your finger if you missed) to test a wire in less then a seco...

Good for you; I'v seen too many cars with sliced-up wire harnesses causing troubles sooner or later.....

Simply replace all capacitors from that age even when they look good, period.

I save this picture, taken by Eric, to proove my point everytime this conversation starts again.....
Nico

Happy birthday Tom ! Just stumbled upon this, otherwise I wouldn't have known. :oops: Over here in The Netherlands they're still talking about a guy who's last name means "bird" in Dutch. He would approximately be in his 30's now and has last been seen on the Dutch coastline, playing with ...

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I just need something to put them in. Lol


Well.... how about my car.....
Looks like a nice solid build.

good for you I hope you give the French just as much shit as they did me as every stereo type about rude French people came true while we were in paris. To put it into perspective even the waiters were rude to us..... You're so right... we stranded in Paris on a saturday with a leaky radiator-cap. ...

Not when you're a tourist visiting our country for more than a day... meaning they had problems with French and Belgium guys that drove down to Amsterdam at night to score some joints, make trouble and drive off again. You'll find the Dutch Government and us people very torerant if you behave normal...

Passing this view every day for the last 17 years without paying much attention, but I pulled over yesterday to take some pics.
We live just under the city of Amsterdam.
Nico