The Amp Garage

OK i Have resistance on the pins to ground, i talked to the owner turns out the vibrato has never worked. FUCK HIM! that kind of stuff i wish he would just tell me up front when i ask "is there anything i should know, everything used to work?" then i had to listen to him back pedal for 30 minutes tr...

Awesome! Great suggestions! All the equipment i listed above like te fluke and testers i already own. The additional funds are for other equipment and parts. You all have great ideas and i'm sure i'll put them all to use! Thank you f the tip on the rework station! I have a very steady clientel base,...

Awesome! Great suggestions! All the equipment i listed above like te fluke and testers i already own. The additional funds are for other equipment and parts. You all have great ideas and i'm sure i'll put them all to use! Thank you f the tip on the rework station! I have a very steady clientel base,...

SOLD! I'm in! HMMM BEER!

yes all the voltages are with in tolerance 20% on the 12ax7's pins except nothing is on 3 or 8. I haven't had a chance to test for resistance or to fully fire up the amp. After I formed the new caps and test voltages and couldn't get anything on pins 3 and 8 I didn't try to fire it up. I do have the...

It seems to be a guarded secret amoung tech's what they use and what their work area layout looks like. I'm guessing it's probably cause of the mess and clutter. I've been given $30K to upgrade and stock my tech room. I'm mostly focusing on tube amp repair though FX pedals and some solid state does ...

it looks like the same schematic I'm working from. I'm reading from the hip vintage amp book, which really seems to be a how to rip of fenders and a personal endorsement to Kendrick a couple TW pages hand draws of Master Volume Mods by Ken, anyway.... I'll buy the 2.1V but I still have 0.00v on my m...

Ok so i thought i would throw this up for a helpful discussion A friend dropped off a Fender Bandmaster AB736 1966 after it took a power hit at a local bar during a show. He said that it went silent and one tube stopped glowing. I was out of town when he called at 1am. I put the tubes on test, both ...

truthfully without going tnrew the steps of building your own test bench and calibrating lab grade test equipment there are 3 quality new tube testers for preamp only the vacume tube valley small characterizer ($1000) for output tubes the maxi matcher ($800) and the amplitrex at1000 curve tracer ($2...

thank you for the insight i'm so close to an all original I feel like I should make the quest to complete it i've been stock piling period correct TW parts for a years.

was the original TW chassis some thing KF fabricated or could the shell be purchased at some point if so by who? if not and its a home brew what material code did he use?

thank you

oops the tester is an amplitrex At1000 if anyone cares sorry about that i've had bugleboys on the brain

check out www.turretboards.com they have a really cool easy to build or buy pre build Point to Point kit for the Valve Jr. as well as a few mods for fender marshall and vox'n the circuit. the power transformer is just fine so you are good keep the original, as for output iron do a google search I do...

So i have a question i'm sure it's been discussed all ready and i'm just beating a dead horse, but hey if not it's worth a thought. I was reading the post about the KF tribute wreck and after looking at the parts chart I found myself wondering why the values where so far off the actual component val...