I just oredered a Heyboer OT (not very expensive)

if youre talking about the V3 tube go with a long plate with balanced triodes.

I like the JJ803s as it gives a nice bit of lower mids and sounds very smooth.

I dislike JJ's in V1 and V2 though

figured out what the problem is
the new speaker cabinet I had made has a faulty jack
Replaced it with a new one and away she went
I'd like to thank everybody for all your help
bluesfendermanblues, hywelg Nik and everyone else
I couldn't have done it without you guy's

The amp sounds awesome
gonna let it burn in now

Thanks so much

Tim

From the post above

"Well I feel kinda dumb
I have all the wires that are spliced into the shielded wire hooked up to the main conductor wire instead of the shielding
I'll redo them after work and let you know how it goes"

It was working good , all the switches and pots did what they were supposed to
It did have an ac hum that wasn't that bad, not sure if it is from this old building I live in or wire placement
Fuses are good, all the voltages are good
it just quit working
I used to get a small click or pop when I turned the standby switch on but now I get nothing

Fixed all the wires and we had sound

closest amp tech is probably 300 miles from where I live
I've been talking to Nik and he asked if the tip of the input jack was shorted to ground
With a 1/4 inch cable inserted I have continuity to the chassis

I bet that's Gregor Hillden

Found it, I pinched a wire between the standoff and mainboard
I built listening probe
(a pair of aligator clips, a 1/4" jack, a .047uF/400V (or more) cap and some wire. You connect a wire from an aligator clip to the ground connection on the jack, the cap to the other clip and the other side of the cap to the hot lead on the jack.)
then hooked that jack via 1/4" cable to another amp
Plugged in a tone generator to the OTS input and tried to trace the sound
but I could not get a signal from the tip of the input jack on the OTS
The listening probe worked fine when the tone generator was hooked directly to the aligator clips but not thru the input jack of the OTS
sssoooo unless I've wired the input jacks wrong which I've checked several times and even rewired again there must be a short to ground on the inputs
Is this correct?
I'm just guessing......remember I'm a newbie

Tim

Ok I unhooked two wires from the relay board and one from the star ground so I could have a look underneath the main board to see if there was a problem underneath
I found nothing wrong so I hooked everything back up
Now when I hit the power switch I get a low hum and v5 is red plating
What would cause this?
All wires were reconnected to there proper places

Ok I tried that and still nothing
on the voltage chart v4 and v5 pin1 shows 37 volts
mine are .026v and .039v
the rest are pretty close
would that be the set of (supposedly) matched tubes I bought off fleabay?
And what does HT stand for and where do I measure that?