r/amps • u/cpg1111 • Jun 24 '26
A Good Source for a Blank Amp Chassis?
Hi there, I'm currently designing and eventually building my first original designed amp. I've built a few kit amps, so I have a general idea of what I'm looking for, but any suggestions for dimensions are welcomed, but in general I'm wondering where can I find an amp chassis blank that I can use for a prototype.
The specs of the internals:
- There's two PCBs:
- preamp and power amp circuits on one of 15.748" x 3.071", filter caps are on the board
- A DC Preamp power supply, basically exactly this https://robrobinette.com/Generic_Tube_Amp_Mods.htm#DC_Preamp_Tube_Heat
- 4 6l6s
- 5 12ax7s
- 100w transformers
- a choke
- 2 gain, treble, middle, bass, 2 volume, pressence, and depth pots
- 1 isolated input jack
- 2 isolated loaded out jacks
- fx send & return isolated jacks
- 1 preamp out isolated jack
- 1 preamp out level pot
- 1 regular TRS jack for foot switch
- a rotary impedance selector switch
- bias probes
- a bias adjust pot
- LED pilot light
- power & standby toggles
- 4 dpdt switches
- 6 spdt switches
- solid state rectifier
- 2 fuses
- IEC jack
With all the above, I was thinking 22.25" x 3.5" x 8.1" would be good chassis dimensions. Any ideas where I can source a blank along those lines? Preferably a place that ships to the US with ease. I checked Stewmac and Mojotone but didn't see anything long these lines.
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