rwillett

Its a very nice briefcase sized setup. On my growing list of things to build. Right after I fix my blown-up Headrush 112 and replacing the tweeters in an Omni 10.5 Now I think about it, I may pick @Mottlefeeder's brains as to what to replace whatever it's blown up with. Rob

There's a common link here in your stories...

You are correct, my mistake. As I do sell on eBay, I should have realised that. Corrected Rob

A mandatory fee set by eBay. Never underestimate the ability of these people to find new ways to extract money from you. This is why selling is free, the seller is now paying for the privilege of selling to you through eBay. [Updated as I got who pays this the wrong way round coz I'm an idiot] Rob

Learnt my lesson. I'll keep an eye on their domain name and if they forget to renew even for a few hours, that might be unfortunate. I'll break the unit open and if nothing else I'll have a 12" speaker and tweeter to play with. It might be an easy fix, but suspect its junk. Of course if somebody has a broken case and a working set of internal bits, that could be useful Rob

Oddly enough John Pye auctions have just come back and as expected have washed their hands of the situation. Distance selling regs do not apply, so I'll be in touch with their local trading standards for selling dangerous goods. Doubt anything will come of it but if nothing more I can make a fuss. If anybody has any other suggestions that might make their life legally difficult please pipe up. Lesson learnt never to use them again Rob

I've not opened it yet. I'm still awaiting the response from the auction house. I did ring up an authorised Headrush repair company in Leeds and it's £90 just to look at it plus whatever is needed to fix it plus me dropping it off (or sending to and fro via courier). If a new amp section is needed then I can easily see that being £100 and that plus £90 plus £20 x 2 for delivery moves this to circa £220 for repair which makes it not cost effective. So if I get no joy from the auction house, then I'll open it up and have a look. My money is on the transformer burning out but what do I know Lets see what the auction house says. It makes no mention of the fact it doesn't bloody well work and tripped my fuseboard. Thankfully it caused no other damage. I'm not hopeful and am expecting to write it off. Thanks for the suggestions.. Rob

I go into the office every few weeks or so, I've teams in Sheffield, Manchester and Croydon so regardless of where I work, I'm usually on a Teams call as somebody isn't in the location I'm in. We have a lot of older kit and I know full well there's cupboards full of older stuff like Surface Pro PSU's, It's just a case of finding them. I like old Thinkpads, I was at IBM for 15 years and they made great laptops, Even when they flogged it to Lenovo, they were still good laptops. The cases were thicker and made of better plastic. Not as stylish as the Dell's but a lot more robust. When we were out on site, we'd see Dell's and other laptops with duct tape holding things together like compartment lids, never had that with an old Thinkpad. Easy to change the keyboard over as well. The only downside was their love of DisplayPort over HDMI, they would not drop DP in favour of HDMI for far too long. Anyway, I have put the word out and am asking around for a PSU. Rob

Thats exactly why I had it. Let me ask around... Some people have spares as they moved to HP, some silly sods staying on the surface pro. Rob

Apologies, but I gave it away on Friday to a bloke in Chester. Now these things are two a penny where I work. Let me check to see if there are any more lying around. They are classed as accessories and so aren't actually tracked even if they cost £250 (which the big version does cost). Rob

I took a punt on a not-well-known auction site and got a Headrush FR112. Not eBay to be clear. I got it cheap for £84 but it turns out that it doesn't work. It came with a blown 6.3A fuse and putting in another 6.3A fuse gave me a matched pair of blown fuses. Not quite as a nice as a matched pair of EL84 valves but still glassware I'm in discussions with the auction site but assuming that I don't get my money back, caveat emptor etc etc, any recommendations for somebody in NW England who can look at these things and repair them. The Headrush site shows somebody in Leeds and also somebody in Castleford. Both are a fair old schlep. If I don't get my money back, I suspect I'll be making them into a home made cabinet. Any sensible suggestions welcomed. Rob

I would assume as a responsible basschatter, the OP would either carry a spare few 50p pieces for the meter or their own generator.

In which case I'm a complete wimp. I recall it being a lot heavier

Ah so the word "manageable" actually means "somebody else manages it" 🤣 it was very heavy as I recall 35+kg? It sounded great though. I'd love to do a blind test with that and a decent Class D amp. You may already have done this...