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Fender blackface Vibrolux
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 2:32 am
by laurie
The newest addition. Unmolested - in 100% original condition, and it still works, even with 60 year old capacitors!
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Re: Fender blackface Vibrolux
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 6:31 am
by Pepe
Nice, nice, nice!
Re: Fender blackface Vibrolux
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 8:18 am
by The_Doc
Great find ! Are you going to do any work on it?
Re: Fender blackface Vibrolux
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 2:14 pm
by laurie
The potentiometers are all dirty so will need cleaning and potentially some replacing. Plus a re-cap. 60 years... it is due! I'm actually surprised it still works.
Plus I'll clean the eyelet-board. The wax coating gets impurities (mainly carbon from cigarette smoke) and that leads to parasitic capacitance and resistance. UPDATE - the 1964 blackface, of course, does not have a wax coating.
And a good clean. Some of the gig-dust in the back of thea amp is nearly as old as I am...
Re: Fender blackface Vibrolux
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 3:30 pm
by zentropa
Nice score. I love the Vibrolux.
Re: Fender blackface Vibrolux
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2025 9:25 pm
by laurie
So, not as unmolested as I was told.
It has been recapped. Very nice capacitors, date code is 2015. This is a happy thing!
Not a lot of restoration to do...
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Re: Fender blackface Vibrolux
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2025 9:38 pm
by Pepe
Ooooh, high quality capacitors!
These Sprague 16µF cost over 28 EUR at Banzai Music in Berlin. Per piece!
Re: Fender blackface Vibrolux
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2025 2:53 am
by fernieite
Fantastic, man!
September 1964 tube chart code. (NJ)
Where did you find it? Local?
Re: Fender blackface Vibrolux
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2025 5:12 pm
by laurie
Really clean inside.
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Re: Fender blackface Vibrolux
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2025 5:14 pm
by laurie
First job... replace the 2 prong power cord with a grounded power cord and remove the grounding switch and Death Cap.