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Charge it up with your One Spot and then stick your tongue on the terminals.
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Great idea, I'll report back shortly.
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:excellent:
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I just came into some big-ass caps myself:

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now you need to make a pedal like this with the big ass cap sticking out. some dumb ass will buy it.
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I hate to sound that way but my point is that people will buy anything if it has a tube in it. even a starved plate 12ax7 :cry:
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eatyourguitar wrote:I hate to sound that way but my point is that people will buy anything if it has a tube in it. even a starved plate 12ax7 :cry:


I'm not sure why. What kind of koozie could you make from a tube that size?

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can't beat my big cap, it's not as big as yours but it's rated at 2Volts, beat that!
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actually, car audio is 12v and you can buy a 2 farad cap. ha!
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eatyourguitar wrote:now you need to make a pedal like this with the big ass cap sticking out. some dumb ass will buy it.
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I hate to sound that way but my point is that people will buy anything if it has a tube in it. even a starved plate 12ax7 :cry:


This reminds me of a modded DS-1 I saw on ebay a couple of months ago. It had two huge orange drops (matching colours - hooray!) sticking out of the enclosure on the back. Of course I did think about buying that shit.
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