not one of my smarter moments

So, here I was this morning, bored to tears.
Then i think, you know what I could do to pass time, i could Mod my amp.
Basically make it so you can plug it into a cab and use it as a head unit.
Not that it would be of any use at all, because firstly I don't have a cab, and secondly it's a 10w Samic, which won't sound that good no matter what you do to it.

So I open my wee baby up, and have a look inside.
"oh yup," I say "shouldn't be too hard."
I grab the wires which connect the speaker to the amp and cut them (easy enough to get back into place).
I then solder them to a jack out (like that on the body of a guitar).
Using ground and negative, and the signal out as my positive.

I grab the other end of the wires and solder them onto a jack head, using again the ground as the neg, and the signal as the pos.
Thinking, when I put this jack into this input it'll be just like having the wires connected.

So I do this, and go to try it out.
I plug it in, and hook it upto a perfectly working cab (one of my dads oldies).
I go to flick the on switch, but it moves away from me. So I use my finger the secure the beast,
and my thumb to flick the switch.
BAM!...i'm now connected to the mains.
In NZ that's 240v

So that was fun.

I stand up as fast as I can, this takes me away from the shock and my arm only buzzes a little.

Now, i'm not sure exactly where I went wrong (I've run this whole thing in my head so many times)
but some where between opening up the amp, and plugging myself into the wall i went wrong.
And...sad to say, today was the day I blew up my first amp.

So yes, i am currently ampless again, which is lame.
So, if any one's got an amp they'd want to give me...I'm open for nearly anything right now.
How ever, if you have something that's like a 5w all tube deal that'd be good haha.

okay
Cheers for your pitty, as I hope your feeling right now.

jonny.