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Starting the re-cap. Old caps are definitely "dry".
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chromandre wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 05, 2019 4:45 pm

The clue makes even more sense than simply fat.

Fat...
Weird Al...
Michael Jackson "Bad" parody...
In the subway...

Nope. Nothing jumping out.

Forgot to mention... I traded a few pedals in at the local Cash Converters and bought one of these at Christmas time. Needed a good clean up (multiple layers of dirt and detritus) but it works perfectly and actually sounds OK. Some of you may recall I had an AXE-FX a few years ago and unloaded it be...

This is the "smoking gun" ... why the amp ended up in the pawn store. It looks like this 5W resistor has been failing/arcing-over for years...

Chassis looks very clean for an amp nearly 50 years old...! The joy of living in an extremely low humidity environment here on the prairies in Canada. A few years ago I sold a 1966 Fender Super Reverb amp that came from here in Canada to a guy in Australia. About 2 days later I get a frantic call f...

Waiting for parts. Next installment should be in about 2 weeks.

These are the electrolytic caps that are being changed:
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An amp from 1970 picked up at the local pawn store for USD $90. I believe it is essentially a vintage Vox AC15 clone. Needs re-cap plus clean-out of the pots etc. It should work just fine after some routine maintenance... Let's get started! Rockey_sml.jpg Rockey_tubes_sml.jpg Ace_Tone_Rockey_schemat...

According to the Global Event Observer of our post service in Germany the situation with Canada Post will become better soon: "Mail embargo lifted following end of strike: Canada Post informs on December 13 that the embargo on mail items arriving from designated operators was lifted on November 27 ...

But if you three guys want to do a Canada-only exchange, that's a cool thing. In any case better than the other option. Personally, unless Laurie and Gas-man have their hearts set on it, I say Canada just sits this one out - all three of us have exchanged pedals previously, I'm almost certain. We'l...