Can someone tell me what the .01uF 3kV cap on the rectifier socket does?

Thanks

This is a great post and response, I'm glad I came across it. So M, what are these seven forums? I've already joined 18watt and brownnote along with amp garage. The brown note amps sound pretty sweet and the instant availability of the amp garage site was incredibly informative.

Thanks for the info

Keith

I really appreciate the reply! I've done lots of soldering, mostly cables and a couple pickup jobs.  Is there a best place to start? Is there a better solder than any other? What pairs of wires should be twisted? "I did it that way and it was a mistake." or "When you wire the chassis don't mount the PT and OT until the end" or does none of this really matter. Just thought I'd find out any pitfalls before I fire up the iron.

Keith

I really like the look, I built my cab and head cab for my OTS but have never used tolex. is it difficult to work with? The pictures attached are the first speaker cab and head cab I've ever built and decided on hard wood pauduk and zebra on the cab and figured maple and pauduk on the head cab. The little design on the front is cocobolo.

Keith

I have a VC kit and I am getting ready to build it. Emphasis on "getting ready". I have made countless cables, I recently modified my crybaby with a true bypass and have wired pickups but I have very little actual practical electronics knowledge. I've recently started going through some material at allaboutcircuits.com because the site is more like a book. I mention it because it seems like a good resource.

The question: What are some "best practices" when building the VC or some of the common problems that come up when someone having not built one before does it for the first time. Solder choices? 60/40 rosin core or silver, pots in first, wire them first etc.

I would like the build to be as good as possible of course and it would be great to get some perspective from experienced builders for a beginner like myself.

Thanks
Keith

The wee bit is an eigth of an inch. Each screw head is about a 16th of an inch and you've got some on each side. THe corel file would be great but I can't open corel files. Illustrator wouldn't open it, nor fireworks or PS so I'm downloading Corel trial.