Frank Amp'n Stein Crate

oldschoolfan · Post by **oldschoolfan** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 11:41 am

Hello all, I am brand new here. I have a fas and I recently aquired a very nice sofas with all the fixin's. My fas was supposed to come with everything and did not. Live and learn. I have built it a crate copied from my sofas just adding two and a half inches in length to accomodate the longer amp. I now need to finish the inside spacers. My question to you all is, does someone have pictures you could post or send me of an original Frank Amp'n Stein crate. I have only been able to find one set of pics of a fas crate on ampguts and they are not very informative. The only difference visually I could see from my sofas crate and the amp guts photos of the fas was the color of the carpet on the interior spacers. I want the crate to be as accurate as possible, well, just because. Of course it is not original but it should have one none the less. Thanks all!

Oh, and here are some pictures of what I did so far.

Post by **ttocs** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 11:58 am

resize the pics with windows viewer and it will be easier to read.

I wonder what people did with those crates..........

Post by **joerg** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 1:25 pm

Welcome to the phorum! Seems like you are the guy that bought SOFAS #113 Just let us know what serial numbers u have! I will add your beauties to the registry

Just to answer your questition about the crate! It looks exactly the same as the one from the SOFAS. It´s just 2,5 inches longer! Even the carpet is the same. It might look a little different on the ampguts picture because the colour of the carpet faded out due to it´s age.

Post by **mhyde71** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 1:27 pm

didnt that ebay listing for 113 come with crate though?
thought it said so in the listing

oldschoolfan · Post by **oldschoolfan** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 1:35 pm

Yes, 113 it is. It did come with the crate and everything claimed. All original paperwork, manuals, sticker, certificate of ownership, neck bolts...I drove to Mississippi to pick it up in person. Very nice folks. It is my Frank that did not come with the crate. Joerg, the carpet in my sofas crate is red, the pictures on ampguts of the frank sr. crate looks black. This is where my dillema is at the moment.

Post by **joerg** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 1:39 pm

Hosehead and STROKD from the phorum have the crates of their FAS. So u might send them a private message just to make sure. But my crate has the red carpet in there as well, but i built it on my own.

What´s the serial of your FAS?

Post by **stipud** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 2:18 pm

Holy shit that is some dedication

oldschoolfan · Post by **oldschoolfan** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 2:18 pm

Thanks joerg, I will give them a shout. So you made yours too?! I would like to see it. My fas is 087, route 66 #0772. Both FAS and SOFAS have the matching AX406. I am dying to ask, what is the Dr. Frank Amp'n Stein?

Pedi · Post by **Pedi** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 2:21 pm

Wow, three limited editions...

Nice amps....

Welcome to the heart of PG-addicts....

Irongoats · Post by **Irongoats** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 2:47 pm

umm are we looking at a crate? Nice box I guess.

Post by **ttocs** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 3:42 pm

Isn't there something branded on the box as well? wouldn't be too hard to recreat with a pencil and a wood burning kit or solder iron.

Post by **joerg** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 10:50 pm

oldschoolfan wrote:Thanks joerg, I will give them a shout. So you made yours too?! I would like to see it. My fas is 087, route 66 #0772. Both FAS and SOFAS have the matching AX406. I am dying to ask, what is the Dr. Frank Amp'n Stein?

I will take some pics tonight and added all your amps to the registry.

The DFAS is a one of custom made amplifier that houses 2 original MS2250 boards in a franked MS1000 sink with a nice custom made shroud. It´s not finished right now as i´m still waiting for my MS1000 sink. I´m going to post pictures when he´s finished for sure

Post by **joerg** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 10:52 pm

ttocs wrote:Isn't there something branded on the box as well? wouldn't be too hard to recreat with a pencil and a wood burning kit or solder iron.

One of my SOFAS-crates has Phoenix Gold branded into the top

HoseHead · Post by **HoseHead** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 4:00 am

I'll post some pics of my FAS crate tonight. Even the FAS itself as it is out of car at this time.
I'm pretty sure it's original with straw and stuff, but there is no PG identifier anywhere on the outside. I'll check again with my glasses on this time. Standby, over.

HH

oldschoolfan · Post by **oldschoolfan** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 6:51 pm

Thanks Jeorg and Hosehead. Can't wait to see those pics and I can't wait to see the Franked MS1000!