joebhold

I've made my first post over in M-4.0t (also TFM-4, TFM-42, TFM-45) repair Help and comments appreciated!

Thank you everyone for the warm welcome. What a difference from those Facebook groups I waste my time looking at! I'm still researching the very awesome and helpful threads here and the service manual to decide what to do. The person I purchased it from for $150 said it worked fine until he moved to a new house, so its possible it's just some cracked joints. I'll start a thread on the project shortly.

Hello Everyone- My day job is scientist helping doctors and nurses treat blood cancer patients. Enjoying music of all kinds is my relaxation. I grew up in the 70's my trusty Pioneer SX-424 and EPI Microtower 2's which I still have. My friends had better, AR-3a, AR turntable, EPI 100, 9090, etc so I knew there was better out there. Always had fascination with electronics and through work learned to build analog circuits from a PhD electrical engineer. In the last 10 years or so was able to build out a workbench at home, start small, and still today with humility I continue to learn. My last success was restoration of a 1960 Harmon-Kardon FA10 Sonata mono tube receiver. Not into high dollar stuff, just quality units I have come across and carefully restored. My main system is simple, based around an Alesis RA-300, Altec Lansing 1432A EQ and DLK 4's that cost me maybe $200 and a lot of quality time. Anyway, a TFM-45 fell into my lap that probably just has bad solder joints but it is such a nice piece (although someone "restored" it 6 years ago). Having had a Phase Linear 400 at one time, I'm a sucker for rack mount amps with big VU meters so I was hoping to get some help from the experts on this beautiful Carver!