Tube Sockets are In-place

I thought the tube sockets were going to be easy. They weren't. Because of the chassis design, they have to be installed first, then you solder the various wires. It would have been easier to solder then solder the wires to the board. Next time I'll do it in that order. The heater wires weren't too bad. I went with the beefy 18 AWG wire instead of the thinner 20 AWG. By the third tube socket I got the hang of it. The heater wires need to be twisted to reduce noise so it's a lot of trial and error to get the lengths figured out. Luckily I choose to hook those heater wires up first. I recomend this, since it gives you more space without all of the other wires complicating things.

Inside so far, the heater wires are the red and black ones that are twisted.

This is the outside of the chassis. I might go with some different style spring clips. These don't look as good as the ones with two springs on either end.

Here's an example of what I think are better spring clips. These look like they will hold the tubes in place a lot better than the current ones I have in place.

Here's the inside, more detailed pictures. These two tube sockets are for the Power tubes, EL84's. The one on the left I left un-soldered. I'm waiting on the transformers to arrive before finishing that socket.

These are the 12AX7 (3) Tube sockets.