David's Vibroclone In Progress Page
05/28/02

This Vibroclone project is going to use a '69 BMR chassis. Unfortunately this chassis has been seriously hacked up someone else. Amp was hacked into a high gain distortion amp with a master volume. My first milestone will be to just about strip the fiber board clean and then build it up from scratch. Someone else already replaced the power supply electrolytic caps and did a fine job. Someone else also already fitted the amp with a New Sensor (Schumacher) multi-tap Bassman output transformer. Besides basic restoration and Vibroclone conversion, David needs a Vibroclone faceplate and will keep the chassis in the original BMR head cabinet for easy traveling.

Initial Condition


Another really smoky chassis in need of a good cleaning. New electrolytic caps.


Hacked output section, normal and vibrato channels and tremolo removed, etc.

 

Restoration and Conversion Progress


Stripped fiber board. Cleaned back panel and new on/off and standby switches.


Cleaned chassis. Vibroclone faceplate, new knobs, intensity, speed pots and bright switches.


Completely re-wired fiberboard following the blackface topology.


Fiberboard again. New output socket heater wire, AC cord and sole control.


Alive on the bench in test.

 

Completed Restoration


Completed chassis pics.


David sent me these pics of his Vibroclone "piggy back" and a couple of cool axes. Nice!

What's left to do:

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