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fender bassman??
- Thread starter neo27ny
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yes. talkbass has seen it more than i've had hot dinners.
lots of bassmans on here
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f15/official-fender-bassman-club-846937/
mines been posted like 100 times
s_mcsleazy said:
What do you think I could get for it as it is in working condition. I still have to bring it to the tech, but I'm trying to find out a repair cost compared to a realistic sell price. I don't think I'd have any use for right now. We are currently in the process of moving into an apartment for a few years while she goes to college. We are going to have neighbors so I won't be able to make much noise. I'd like to see it go to a good home rather than sit collecting dust. I would also like to keep it, I guess I'll wait until I see what the tech says until I make a decision.
Man, I wish I had dumpsters like that around here. I smell an Ex-Wife in the mix.
As I said that I remember loaning out a '64 Vibrolux-Reverb to a friends uncle. It was my first amp and I had just bought a shiny new Peavey Bandit '65. So I forgot about it and when I asked about 18 months later he said it was set out for heavy trash pickup. Man I wish I still had that amp now.
As I said that I remember loaning out a '64 Vibrolux-Reverb to a friends uncle. It was my first amp and I had just bought a shiny new Peavey Bandit '65. So I forgot about it and when I asked about 18 months later he said it was set out for heavy trash pickup. Man I wish I still had that amp now.
I met up with the tech yesterday. The company doesn't allow him to service gear that was not bought there but he sent me a separate personal e-mail saying he works on stuff at his house on the side. He said he would take a look at it and so on. I basically just met him and dropped it off. He did say the tubes look original. I just asked him to look it over and to find out what's wrong with it and get a quote before I decide what I wanna do. I'm still unsure if I want to keep or sell at this point.
Ok the tech said it wouldn't pass a signal, he got it to pass one but it was distorted. The minimum it needs is tubes and a cleaning which he quoted at $235. He said it needs a major overhaul though for worry free reliability. Basically it needs everything replaced, tubes, sockets, rotary switches and a recap job etc. That's gonna cost me $400-450 he said. He won't even work on it without changing to a grounded cord though. At this point I'm thinking about selling. I'd rather it go to someone who wants to put the money into it and could get some use out of it, if I was to sink that much money into it I'd have to keep it and right now I couldn't do much with it.
Hi.
If the fuses were there and the cord was functioning as intended, it's a strong possibility that You unfortunately at least cooked the electrolytic capacitors. Not that You would've been able to use 'em anyway, but bad caps usually make a terrible mess if nothing else.
You did have a speaker load on the output, right?
Some amps, Fenders included, have shorting jacks on the output(s), so the destruction isn't immediate, but better safe than sorry.
All more reason to take it to a tech. You may get a great amp for mere service fee, something you have to do or get done every once and a while anyway.
Dumpster diving is something the fairer sex constantly tries to make us stop doing, but every time I see a pile, I get the urge.
Regards
Sam
Why do you keep blaming him for any damage that may have occurred? He posted that he found it in a dumpster. It probably wouldn't have been tossed if it was working, right? If it doesn't light up (fuses or tubes), either the fuse is blown, the switch is bad, the cord's connection is bad or it might be somewhere else in the power supply but I doubt he did anything to cause it.
When you look closely at it, what is the physical condition? Look at the metal inserts in the tube sockets- are they clean, rusty, dull but still look like clean metal,....? If it doesn't look like it got wet, I seriously doubt it needs as much as the tech said it does. It would be best to start with the things that can be proven bad than just using a parts cannon on it. My amp stopped working and if I had done this, it would have been expensive but upon doing a little testing, it turned out to be a bad rectifier tube. It has been working for about 25 years since I "fixed" it. I also got a Fender Showman amp that the previous owner wrote "It's broken, but maybe you can fix it". Blew the fuse every time I turned it on and it turned out to be bad solder joints on the diodes in the rectifier section. This was common and it could be the problem with yours.
Get a second opinion. Caps are cheap. It probably needs a three wire power cord and those are cheap, too. Most of what it needs is cheap. The only things that are actually expensive are the transformers and even they aren't terribly pricey.
