loose speaker clip kills peavey

[Andy Le Blanc]

Had a repair thru, the fellow got a new set of JJ 6l6 for his peavey heritage, and replaced his speakers with some nice jensens,
but wing dinged the speaker hook up with some old loose clips on the speaker tabs

The over site took out half the tube compliment and the OPT, it is dead, dead... dead

Good lesson there, make sure your load is secure, and service your rig when your sober,
don't get all stoned and think you can pull off even the simplest BS service to your amp.

[Keppy]

That happened to me. A speaker wire broke off on my DC-5, and it took me a few minutes to find the problem. Fixed it, everything was cool, but a few weeks later... smoke. Still haven't opened it up, but I fear the worst.

Mine didn't even break during service (let alone stoner service), just through movement & use.

[Blackburn]

I was pretty lucky when I got my '63 Silvertone 1481 in. I have a curiosity for all things vintage, so after playing her once, I started poking around and found that the hot lead to the speaker wasn't even soldered and could have been removed with a bit of fiddling. I soldered it quickly and am soooo happy there was no incident. Really dig that little thing.

[mandopicker]

I tend to solder all my speaker wire connections. Some might disagree, but it assures a rock solid connection...allowing me the opportunity to blow up my amps in other ways.

[sepulchre]

All my speaker connection are soldered. Wouldn't have it any other way.

[Milkmansound]

this drives me nuts - most 15" speakers that are good for pedal steel have the push down terminals on them not the spade or solder connectors. Its the achilles heel of my amps - but I make sure to inform the customer to check on that connection from time to time to make sure its set. It can easily take out a quad of power tubes or worse if it pops off mid stream

[Gaz]

this drives me nuts - most 15" speakers that are good for pedal steel have the push down terminals on them not the spade or solder connectors. Its the achilles heel of my amps - but I make sure to inform the customer to check on that connection from time to time to make sure its set. It can easily take out a quad of power tubes or worse if it pops off mid stream

You should consider adding a 10W/220R resistor across the speaker jack as a failsafe.

[gingertube]

A few years ago I helped my apprentice restore a Fender Super Twin (6 off 6L6 for 180 Watts).
He lent it to his brother who used it for bass turned to 10.

The braid leads from the speaker terminals running down to the voice coil burst into flames, yeh! real actual flames. 2 x 12" speakers in parallel so it took out both.

Replaced the speakers and the amp fired straight back up, measured 165W continuous sine wave into a dummy load.

Cheers,
Ian