JBL SA-600 total restoration

[johnaec]

Definitely really nice! I can do cabinet work and simple electronics, but a project like that rebuild takes something special!

John

[jan_slagman]

Hi JBL friends,

Thanks all of you for your positive comments. Most of the credits have to go to Mr. Ruud Janssen who restorated the electronic part of this heavily abused JBL amplifier. Mr. Janssen is an expert and in the past he used to work for a worldwide known American loudspeaker, amplifier and turntable manufacturer. I did the rough work myself, i de-rusted the enclosure and i painted it at new. I also made the American walnut sidepanels. A good friend of mine who is a metallurgic expert made a new knurled pointerknob, which was a hell of a job. (one was missing) and he made a number of levers for the toggleswitches. (three were broken). Yes indeed (quoting Duaneage) i will never ever sell this dream again!
Wayback in 1967 i couldn't have dreamt i would ever possess this legendary masterpiece.

Kind regards,

Jan Slagman
The Netherlands

[Guido]

What a job. WOW!

[jan_slagman]

"Spaet kommt Ihr.. doch Ihr kommt." F. v. Schiller

Deserved, and – better late than never, right Jan?

Da hast du völlig recht Fangio !!!

But........, on the link mentioned below one could already read who did what part of the project !

http://www.hififorum.nl/index.php?topic=10420.0

I only forgot you obviously don't read Dutch.

With kind regards,

Jan

[duaneage]

I have a pair of bicycles that I'll never part with. They are not particularly valuable to anybody else, but to me they are priceless. The value of something you worked so hard on is more than just money or specifications. It ceases to be an object.

It becomes family.

[audiorecyclers]

I was wondering if anyone knows where to get a replacement volume control pot for my SA-600. One channel of mine has a broken tap on the phenolic swipe pad. Thanks,

[audiophile]

I have been googling and researching what I have found in the workshop/attic of a friend's husband, an audiophile. This is the only James B Lansing piece he had, and it's been wrapped up in heavy plastic. She said it was his when they married, and he had it for years till he upgraded to SAE when he started working with SAE. It's got everything intact and appears to be in fantastic shape for its age. She thinks he paid close to $400 for it when it was new. That seems to be in keeping with the ads and things I read online.

I have not yet located a power cord for it. I was going to email the JBL site and ask if they might be able to refer me to someone with one.

I have sold quite a few of this family's audio items at eBay in the fast few months, such as Acurus, Mondial, Aragon audio items from his personal office, and many items still new in their packaging.

eMail me for details if you might be interested? I'd like to see this go to a good home if someone's feeling a tad nostalgic and wants a piece of audio history that doesn't need cosmetic restoration.

Pam
on ebay: digi_noze (seller name)

[bigyank]

Appreciate it (as do others) that you offer it here first. Welcome, stay a while and most importantly, post some pics.

Yank

[BMWCCA]

Even though you cross-posted your advertisement in two separate forums here. Neither one really the correct one for selling a JBL item.

[grumpy]

Even though you cross-posted your advertisement in two separate forums here.

I'll take the cleaver for that one... made an offline suggestion to have a
moderator move the ad to Marketplace... didn't specify

I'll go warm my voice coils for penance.

[BMWCCA]

I'll go warm my voice coils for penance.

That sounds dangerously close to a seasonal-carol lyric.


Are you gonna warm your cockles while you're at it?

Roast some nuts?

[grumpy]

... just leave organoil out of the conversation, and we'll be good.

so be good for goodness sake.