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Sure , as far as ideas go , here's some ;
If you do a search for the term "recap" you will find several different easy tutorials on how to do it without trauma to yourself or the equipment . You will find that it's a pretty darned easy thing to do once ya get the basic skills required . Can you solder ? cause even to put transistor guts in there you are going to need to join wires of some kind and when working on sound equipment (even old not terribly high powered sound equipment) things like wirenuts or crimp connectors ain't gonna do it . If you can't solder , make that your first mission , to learn how . again , there are plenty of tutorials out there in internet land for this . Since this is a simple 3 tube amp it will be the perfect learning tool and is of low enough value so as to be no big deal if it doesn't turn out perfectly . Can you read schematic diagrams ? Do you have a basic idea of the functions of the major components , like resistors , capacitors , transformers , and in this case , tubes ? There are you tube videos that describe all these things and more , if your lookin to learn them . With a few days spent looking at these searches , a lot of the mystery of this will be gone and you'll do just fine working on it if that's what your looking to do .
PS , to most "Purist's" ears , transistor guts will never sound as good in there as good ol tubes , and the very idea of such conversions are regarded as something akin to blasphemy . I'm a lot more easy going than that , and would like to see you enjoy it however you decide to equip it . When it comes right down to it , you'll end up doing more work to install the transistor guts than to recap the tube amp , for instance how will the transistor's volume control circuitry work ? will you try to use the tube amp"s controls ? I'm pretty sure they will be different . Also , that tube amp was built to have a phonograph pickup played through it . Most "modern" transistor's inputs are designed around a "line level" input signal (think the output of an Ipod , for ex) and may not do well trying to amplify the somewhat smaller sound of the tone arm cartridge . You will spend less than $20 to recap the amp yourself , and the turntable is gonna need quite a bit more than that to operate correctly . Lastly , getting it running with the tube amp will give you an idea as to it's general performance , which will be a help in future decisions of possible modification ....
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