I opened it up, while he was here, and found this mess----- I just took pics and wanted to share them for a laugh:
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I'll use a new turret board, add another preamp tube, and generally rebuild this amp so that it sounds the way he wants it to and make sure that it is a safe, reliable amplifier.
The person responsible for the ugly butcher job actually glued their business card to the back plate of the amp as if they were proud of this work---
![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
I'll post "after" pics when I'm done with this job...........................gldtp99