I don’t think there’s any danger of this one being dismantled.
Pauls’s 45s have come and so has the Black Gate cap off Nick. The cap arriving, means there’s a little bit more work to do on the power supply later this week, but after that, we should be cooking on gas for a long time to come.
I was thinking, I should have built one of these years ago, when you could still get 45s reasonably easily, but then it wouldn’t really have worked as I didn’t have the speaker efficiency I have now.
Mind you, thinking about it again, those original Fostex FE108EZ Metronomes with the twin Ruark active subs, might have made a good combination if I’d configured some 45s to drive the midrange upwards and let the plate amps in the subs do the bass. Whether it would have worked satisfactory or not I don’t know; I might have been forever tweaking the bass levels, eventually getting fed up, but it would have been interesting to try.