Dealbreaker or reparable?

[Jim Carr]

Unless there is still water in the amp then it has corroded as much as it is ever going to from this event...

Once anti-corrosion coatings and seals are over-come, so much more is possible, lol.

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Are amps warranted for use in the tropics in buildings without air conditioning? Humidity gets really high there as well.
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As one who lives part of the time in Hawaii (in the Tropics), where most dwellings are not air-conditioned, I can assure you my amps and basses regularly have electronic problems due to humidity.

 

[agedhorse]

There is a special category of equipment that is designed specifically for the real tropics, it involves designing with increased clearance and creepage distances and addresses safety only, not reliability. Very little audio gear is designed specifically for these regions as they represent a tiny portion of the market (like 0.1% or less)

 

[Bassdirty]

There's a lot of negative nellys on this thread.
Should the damage at the bottom of the cab scare you away? Not necessarily, you'd have to actually try the amp to work out if anything else is damaged.
Given it looks like only the bottom has any real damage it is possible only the bottom id damaged. You could probably cut a piece of wood or wood like object the size of the base, screw it on, maybe with brackets holding to the sides, and have a perfectly functional amp.
Would you want to? How much is a perfectly functional undamaged amp worth?

Its not so much that it "could" be a functional undamaged amp, its the fact that $219 is ridiculous for one in that condition. AND the fact that it got to that condition make me wonder about how the owner cared for the amp overall (how was the amplifier treated/how much life is left in it kinda thung).
Yes, I could fix it, but I will not.

The fact that a store is asking that kinda money, (I believe) is the point of the thread.

YMMV

T$

 

[Mingo Sanders]

There is a special category of equipment that is designed specifically for the real tropics, it involves designing with increased clearance and creepage distances and addresses safety only, not reliability. Very little audio gear is designed specifically for these regions as they represent a tiny portion of the market (like 0.1% or less)

heh heh he said "creepage" heh heh

 

[mc900ftj]

Nothing a few turns of a screwdriver won't fix.