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Forum Ringside => Tech => Topic started by: richardjmorgan on April 16, 2010, 03:56:30 PM

Title: Drilling holes in my 5150 – a good idea?
Post by: richardjmorgan on April 16, 2010, 03:56:30 PM

I am thinking of doing this (putting in an IEC 'kettle lead' socket in the back of my amp), like so:

(http://www.fjamods.com/images_peavey/5150back.JPG)

as I am fed up of the power cable waving about hanging out of the back of my amp and concerned that one day it's going to get caught on something and do some sort of damage. Thought it would be a good idea before cracking out the tools though to check with you smart people on here as to whether there is any reason this is not a good idea, or any issues I should be aware of.

Title: Re: Drilling holes in my 5150 – a good idea?
Post by: richardjmorgan on June 26, 2010, 03:04:37 PM

Anyone have any thoughts or advice on this? Haven't been brave enough to go ahead with it yet.

Title: Re: Drilling holes in my 5150 – a good idea?
Post by: Dmoney on June 26, 2010, 03:12:00 PM

should be pretty easy to do.

that looks like a USA 5150 because it has that little ground switch or whatever it is.

what is on the back of your amp? is that switch even there? you may have a bit more space to do it.

Title: Re: Drilling holes in my 5150 – a good idea?
Post by: schantist on June 27, 2010, 09:52:09 PM

Had the same plan for my 5150 back in the days, but after drilling 1 1/2 holes manually I quickly changed plans:
the sheet metal Peavey uses for the 5150 amp chassis is about 1mm strong, so drilling really takes a while; if you can ask somebody who's into metal fabrication, as a post drill really helps :)

I went with one of these suckers: http://www.thomann.de/gb/adam_hall_8102c.htm (http://www.thomann.de/gb/adam_hall_8102c.htm)