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Silent Fender Hot Rod Deluxe Fixed

Another Fender Hot Rod Deluxe arrived .  This was one of the early ones in really nice physical condition dating from around 1998.   It was made in the USA.  Alas, I only ever see sick ones.  This one had about 0.2 watts out on full volume and totally distorted. The valves had not been changed in years and the output valves were original Sovtek 5881’s rebranded as Groove tubes.  They were still kind of working

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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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