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Restoring Fender Deluxe Reverb Silverface or Blackface amp part 3 – resistors

Restoring Fender Deluxe Reverb Silverface or Blackface amp part 3 – resistors In common with all Fender amps they are mounted in the case “upside down” the valves hang at the bottom for east access. The trade off with this design is that heat rises so all the heat from the tubes/valves rises and it cooks all the components over time. A silver face amp is a minimum of 35 years old and so the […]

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VHT Special 6 Ultra Valve Amp

VHT Special 6 Ultra Valve Amp I am currently working on a VHT Special 6 Ultra Amp. This is an amp head and this one has a 1 x 12 Goodmans greenback equipped close backed cabinet. This amp is only 5 watts. It makes a nice little practice/ bedroom/ studio amp where you can sound as if you playing through a fully cranked up Marshall 200 watt stack..great fun. These amps are very competitively priced

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Restoring a Fender deluxe reverb Part 2

Restoring a Fender deluxe reverb Part 2 Here is the next step in restoring the amp. On the underside of the chassis is the main board where the components are mounted. This is called the turret board. On my unit this board was covered in sticky nicotine tar and also it had mould on it ! I found the best way to clean this off was to use a Foam Cleanser that is used for

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Cap replacement Fender Deluxe Reverb

Fender Deluxe Reverb Electronic Restoration I mentioned in an earlier post that I restored my 1971 Fender Deluxe Silver face Reverb’s electronics. Over the next few posts I am going to let you see how I did it. I hope this is useful information for you. The deluxe reverb, Twin reverb, Super reverb all have nearly the same design so what I am saying is true of all of these lovely amps. it also applies

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More on Watching out for Imported Vintage Blackface Silverface Amps

On the old vintage Fender amps as I mentioned earlier there is no earth and only a two pin plug which should be replaced with a cable that supplies a ground to the metal chassis. Also on the back of valve ( tube ) vintage fender amps that says ground. What this switch does is switch a 0.01uF on some models or a 0.047uF , capacitor and connect it either to the live or

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Safety First with imported amps

Safety First – For European Owners of Imported Vintage Guitar Amps from North America I was having an email discussion with a friend in the USA who had an original Blackface Fender Super Reverb amp. So it is obviously pre 1969. Ams of this era oonly have a live and neutral connection and no earth ( ground) connected on the powerline. There is a switch on the back of the amp which optimises the ground

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Repairing a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe amp Mk 1 USA made

A friend brought me his Fender Hot Rod Deluxe amp. The issue was that one of the output valves which are 6L6’s was glowing like an electric fire. See the markings have brown on one of the output valve. Note the amateurish re-branding by Fender of Sovtek 5881 valves as 6L6GC’s ! The Hot Rod deluxe amp is a nice sounding amp but in my opinion Fender were trying to make a full featured amp

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