Mike's 1971 Twin Reverb In Progress Page
12/14/03

Initial Condition

Smoke free chassis. Original power supply caps.

Hack free circuit, with chocolate drop caps. Excellent candidate for a blackface conversion.

Restoration Progress

Cleaned chassis and new power cord. New power supply caps.

New cathode, normal/vibrato tone and signal caps. Blackface conversion.

New grid/screen resistors, on/off and standby switches. In test.

Completed Restoration

What's left to do:

• completely clean chassis and power tranny

• remove and clean front and back faceplates

• perform a complete cap job

• install new on/off and standby switches

• install new grid and screen resistors

• install new power cord

• perform blackface conversion

• replace signal path coupling caps

• clean and tighten tube sockets

• install new tubes, dc/ac test 

• burn in

• final test

• Ship amp back

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