nicely done!
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Epic work! Love to see that.
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That’s great luck you had finding those faders. Nice…
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After going to guitar center and playing both the Rumble 100 and the Rumble 40 for a while, I determined the following:
- The Rumble 100 is loud, but I do worry about it being loud enough. Any future band that I play in would probably be playing rock and classic rock (AC/DC, Black Sabbath, etc are my favorite bands), and I’ve heard as many people say the 100 isn’t loud enough for that as I’ve heard say it is.
- The Rumble 40 is also quite loud in my office. I keep the master volume at like 2 o’clock and gain at like 9 o’clock, with the vintage button engaged, and it’s about ~85dB in my office. There’s a lot more volume available, but this is what I’m willing to do to my high-mileage ears on a regular and consistent basis. The Rumble 40 also has XLR out, so in a pinch I could play a small gig if it had a PA.
- I’ve technically spent over my saved “allowance” on this resurrected hobby, and with my trade-in, the Rumble 40 was $70, where the Rumble 100 would be $170. That extra hundred dollars matters to my wife, who frowns on my deficit spending tactics.
- If and when I have the opportunity to play out, I want to get a more modular system: powerful head of some sort, and a 2x10 or 4x10 and maybe a 1x15 to use together or separately as may be needed.
Hence, I’m the very happy new owner of a Fender Rumble 40.
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Your logic is 
The Rumble 40 is great for practice and small venues. For anything else I would look at least at 200W and higher.
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Very nice solder work!
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Yeah no kidding, almost looks reflow. Better than I could do with an iron.
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a good quality soldering wire helps a lot !
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Yeah. I could probably up my flux game a bit too. Solder-wise I still use 1mm lead (I greatly prefer the eco-destroying solder).
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It’s easier with lead, yeah, but I switched to RoHS a long time ago 
since there is no more lead, I find that the quality varies a lot from one soldering wire to another. The one sold by MusicDing, where I buy the pedals and preamps kits, is quite good and not crazy expensive (about 15€ for 100 grams). I use 1 mm too.
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Makes sense. For RoHS I’m guessing the more you spend, the higher the silver content, and the better the wire.
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yeah and also the integrated flux is not always the same
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Think it’s a 77 or 78 model.
so cool ! I really like the V4
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Not sure where to post this, maybe a “Show us your cabs” thread is missing ?
So here is the inside of my Yamaha 4x10 cab. It’s quite well build :
- all made out of 13 mm plywood
- 4 large internal bracings
- every side is isolated with acoustic wool, except the bottom because the air needs room to reach the port
The pictures are not the best because I didn’t have much room to manipulate my phone and take pictures through the back speaker plug plate.
I plan to add a Speakon plug and a ON/OFF switch to bypass completely the tweeter and the crossover filter.
I’ll try to know more about the drivers when I will be able to reach the stickers on the magnets.
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Killer!
You always do such nice, clean work.
I’m excited to see the exterior when you’re done.
My friend pulled a car name-plate off of a Ford Aerostar and put it on his amp.
I loved that.
Gave it a real punk/classy look.
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oh I’ve not done anything on this cab yet, just pictures of the existing cab for now
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so not MY amp, but didn’t know where to put this. appears to have what is basically room correction.
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no aux in is strange. probably means more to me than most though, i love playing to tracks on my phone. speaker cab is kinda fugly?
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For the price and what you do get, it looks pretty awesome.
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