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LOOKING for a HAMMOND TRANSFORMER, SINGLE PLATE to PUSH-PULL GRIDS

I am trying to find a Hammond transformer with a single plate to push-pull 2a3 grids......Don't tell me to call Hammond, I have called every Hammond from Canada to New York and most of the Hammond people are out to lunch......They really have good jobs, because somebody pays them to go to lunch instead of answer questions........Will
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teo_audio
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Have you tried calling Hammond?






(You were all thinking it, but I actually did it...)

Or you could ease off on the hammond coffee overdosing and switch to a decaffeinated Plitron.
teo_audio
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I have taken the transformer apart and it looks like a Magnequest.....In side is written in ink....5K@20ma to push-pull grids.............


Sometimes..a transformer will fail at the internal solder junctions. so magnequest it is ...and... how’s the impedance measurements at the solder junctions for the wire lead-outs? It’s the ’last chance’ test for a transformer, generally speaking...
Of course, we don't know if it is a failure you are dealing with or a desire for more transformers of the same. If you called in with a Magnequest part number at a Hammond corp help line, well, that might explain it...but I think you figured out that aspect already....
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