Recent content by Rover Eric

I will build one of these boxes. Thank you for the suggestion. I already pulled my PT to send off to mercury, though, for good measure. I like my Power Transformers like i like my women; potted, and from 1978

Fair enough... my expertise is in vintage scooters ( i collect and restore old vespas and lambrettas ) , not in vintage amps :) But i do know how to use a multimeter well enough to troubleshoot all my electrical wiring / harness / shorts and such when i restore bikes. My point is - i'm a...

Just terrific, terrific info, Gerry...and i really appreciate your time. But i'm confused about one thing: That transformer is sparking and ticking and stinking of burning before i ever flip on the high-voltage windings. Correct me if i'm wrong, but with the standby switch "on" isn't the...

This is good info. Can i just put the two leads of my multimeter into the heater pins of the 5A4 socket ( with all tubes removed, of course ), set it to ohms, and turn it on ?

Ideally, i'd like to fix this myself... not because i'm cheap, but purely out of the satisfaction i get from doing it, and the learning experience. I restored a Plush 1060C last weekend, recapping and retubing it as well as converting it over to the safer ground cable / fuse wiring. I've got...

Hey, all. Need some help with a B15N i picked up on craigslist. 1) It's a mid-late 70's B15N ( 4-input, white switches ). It has a full compliment of magnavox tubes, all with yellow silkscreened printing - perhaps original to the amp. I got the amp on craigslist, advertised not working...

what worries me is that it looks like someone tried to figure this out for themselves, circled the fuse in the diagram.... perhaps they were troubleshooting a constant fuse blowing, and assumed this was the problem.

weird. So why does the original schematic that's pasted inside the chassis of the amp show 2 fuses in serial? Mistake?

Hey, all. I have a question about an Ampeg B15N fliptop i picked up recently. It's a late 70's model, with the blue grillcloth, 4 inputs, etc. Anyways, after opening it up, everything looks good, except there's 2 hanging wires where according to the schematic would be a 6 amp fuse. So...is...