I've restored a Danelectro Viscount amp. It was built in 1957, and sold then for $110 (that's about $831 in 2007 dollars). Here's the catalog page for this: Danolectro 1957 catalog page. I also mapped out the circuit, as I could find no schematic for it. The circuit is a bit unusual in that it uses a triode-connected pentode for the first stage and another pentode for the tremolo. The tremolo is quite lush. Danelectro Schematic.

This is an Oahu Amp, 1941 (probably). There aren’t any date codes on the amp, as that didn’t really start until WW II. The circuit has a 6N7G dual triode for the first stage: one triode for each input, 6C5G triode for the second stage, then a 6N6G internally coupled triode and power triode. The 6N6G has a resistor in it to provide the grid bias for the power stage. A 5Y3G tube acts as rectifier.

I wanted to put together a colophon for my Drupal site that would show the current installation details—pulling the information from the live site rather than relying on me to remember to update it after each change. With one module, three views, and a tiny bit of PHP and JavaScript, it’s now working.

Module needed: Views System (and any dependencies not yet installed).