2nd winner of Mark Durham memorial Giveaway!!

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2nd winner of Mark Durham memorial Giveaway!!

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Guys,

We now have 725 entries to the Mark Durham Memorial Giveaway as of midnight last night. That means we have raised over $7250 so far for Sheri, Marissa and Jessica Durham.

If you're curious about the method for picking numbers, please refer to the first winner thread here...

http://www.18watt.com/modules.php?name= ... ic&t=14085

The second winner of the giveaway wins a Paul Ruby-built EF86 18W amplifier.

Congratulations to

Richard LeRoy

for winning the EF86 18W by Paul Ruby!

So, we have a few more drawings to make and because of the new prize submissions (WB Custom pickups and a JTM45 kit) we may extend the drawings out to the end of the year. Probably the grand prize would be drawn on New Years Eve. For those of you that have not won anything, please dig up some holiday cheer and click that paypal link above and donate your dollars to the cause. Every $10 donated gives you a better chance of winning a prize. Sheri and the girls are very appreciative of what we are doing and they certainly need it.

Once again, congrats to Richard LeRoy for winning the EF86 amp!
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Hey Rich!!!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! That amps is GLORIOUS! Paul Ruby does an extraordinary craftmanship on his amps!!!

WAY TO GO!!!

Gabi.
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Congrats to Richard.

Fine Amp......

Want to hear it soon.

MIKE
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I would like to thank Graydon , Paul Ruby , Gabriel , and everyone on 18watt.com for helping the Durham Family.
Its good to know that people do care!
Please donate if you can!

What a honor to win this amp!
Thank You All!
Richard LeRoy
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F'#@#'n A, Richard! Congrats!
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Congrats Richard!!!

Send me your address so I can ship it out to you.
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Hey Dart,
I'll send you my address, if you don't hear anything, say, in like....5 minutes......hehehhehe :lol:


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Congratulations Richard! congrats hurray
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Congrats Richard! :D
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congrats Richard
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Excellent!
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congrats, but i wish it would have been me. all i have ever won was 12 cases of budweiser from a radio contest when i was 22. the wife at the time, was none too happy.

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lastwinj wrote: the wife at the time, was none too happy.

germ

You slime! You didn't share it with her did you?

Congrats Richard!
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HI EVERBODY!!!!

Here are some photos of the amp that Richard just won!!!

I'll have some clips to follow today!!!!
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Oooohhuuhuhhoooohhuuhoooo.....


If this were only a guitar and I could plug into the Ruby EF86/Trem!!!!!!!

OWOWOWOWOWNHHWHWOOOWOWOJEWOJWEOW....
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Post by dartanion »

FYI-

This is the speaker cab that goes with the JTM45.
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Post by dartanion »

Here's a quick clip on the trem channel with the trem off.

I'm getting tons of background noise as it is POURING OUT HERE!!!!
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Post by pure_tube »

Woohoo

Congratulations Richard! (oh the envy...lol)

That was my favorite! Now I'll have to (try to) build it myself... Well when my wife has finally divorced me because of the new project (#378 on the 'undone projects' list I believe) at least I'll have enough time to try it out 8O.

When I'm done, I'll send it to Paul Ruby for a brief evaluation, and hopefully he will be so despaired by my futile effort, he'll just make me one, instead of even trying to explain even the basics.

Best wishes to the Durhams!
...and to you guys. Seldom have I seen such a beautiful, and true effort.
RESPECT!

Sorry, if I missed a thread somewhere... But I just wanted to know how Jessica is doing... Is she better?


Greetings.

Joe

PS: *irony on* Thanks loads, Dart for the soundfile! *irony off*, now that I know how they are SUPPOSED to sound I can go back to soldering...Shoot.

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Post by rmleroy »

Thanks to Dartanion for posting pic's and sound clip so everyone could see and hear the EF 86 build.
The amp looks and sounds awesome!!!

Thanks to...
It's got Russian Military EL84's and American
> 12AX7s from SgtOverdrive (Terry Kilgore), an EH EZ81 and EH EF86 from Dartanion It was built by Paul Ruby (www.paulrubyamps.com)
> with his special transformers and wicked clean build skills. Reason
> Amplification (Anthony) donated the cab. Chris Sargeant donated the Badges.
> And Apex Jr. donated the IEC power cord.

Best wishes to the Mark Durham Family!
Richard LeRoy
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The clip sounds pretty bad to me with all the back ground noise. I'll see about posting another clip tonight.
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