If anyone is still looking for a SLP-98

It’s OK billpete. It happens to the best of us. Even as a technician it happened a couple times to me. Among other things! I’m retired and a few years out from my tech days. First my back went, then my neck went-had a fusion, now my knee is gone. Sucks getting old! It’s a good thing your body doesn’t fall apart till your old, young people couldn’t handle this.

As a tech the worst thing that ever happened to me I think was being shocked by a CAD-805 amp that was wired wrong. An assembler wired the main B+ directly to a speaker post so that every time I grabbed hold of the chassis to turn it over and I grabbed the speaker post I got shocked by 1000 volts even with it off. It took a second time getting shocked, which turned my finger white and burnt a deep hole, to realize where I was being shocked from. Believe me 1000VDC will make your muscles spasm good. And that’s with the amp off and unplugged. Those caps hold a charge for a while.

@harpo75 

Thanks for that. I concur, getting old absolutely sucks and you're right, young people could not handle it. I've had multiple back injuries, including a fracture and multiple ruptured disks. Lots of hard and heavy work and now I'm paying for it. No surgeries yet, hope to keep it that way. No pills either. Eyes getting worse, might need cataract surgery one of these days. Ok, enough of that. I think this place is supposed to be about music. :)

Can't imagine how that felt. I hate electricity.....or at least the bite that it has. It's no wonder there are so many warnings on this stuff. I seem to draw static charges and get shocks when no one else does. I may be one of those negatively charged types. I guess I should be careful in lightning storms. I do know an auctioneer who has been struck twice. I joke that someone is trying to tell him something. 

Anyway, thanks for all. I will try to post some pics of the "innards". 

@billpete I seem to draw static charges and get shocks when no one else does. 

Your system likes you and is pulling you in to become part of the electrical and audio circuit now, LOL.  On that note, surely you are well aware, in any case, be sure not to touch a screwdriver or metal object on the screw heads or ingoing leads on any of those capacitors in the power circuit or signal path. Interesting about it having hexfreds in your preamp too.  Keep us posted on the listening notes every few days and whether you like it or not.  Others will follow this thread later too.  

@billpete , I am happy to read that you are up and running.  I've made mistakes similar to that before and it was always a relief to figure out it was just my own stupid owner/operator error and not a serious product defect or malfunction that was going to require a lot of shipping and waiting.

@harpo75 , thanks for all of that in your above post.  I am going to pate it to a word document and print it and keep it with my owner's manual.  Although after my first quick read, it does seem to make casual tube rolling prohibitive.  BTW, are you still in the tech service business?

I’ve been retired for 4 years now.  Worked there for almost 11 years.  I designed the ultimate upgrade for the 05 after tinkering at home for a year on my own.  Then for myself I hand wired a completely from scratch custom 2-chassis unit at home with a remote control resistor ladder volume control and input selector with display.  All teflon sockets, pure silver Kimber for hard wiring and silver solder, Mundorf’s top of the line EVO SilverGoldOil coupling caps, a completely from scratch larger power supply with a slightly higher voltage transformer, 10Hy choke, a few large electrolytic can caps and over 500uf’s of Polypropylene caps in the PS.  I installed a PS isolation circuit between the balanced input circuit PS and the other tubes that is a capacitance multiplier circuit.  
Did the last part this last year and was a wonderful improvement to the imaging. I have a hard time leaving well enough alone even now days.  
Then there’s my custom amps.  But that another story.