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Post subject: Cool Fender History
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2019 5:09 pm
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From the factory bench of Leo, 1946 Model 26 video...


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Post subject: Re: Cool Fender History
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 1:54 pm
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COOL!

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Post subject: Re: Cool Fender History
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 10:10 pm
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the stories that amp could tell! a true part of history. thanks to this family for taking care of it all these years.


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Post subject: Re: Cool Fender History
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 11:13 pm
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+1!

That's a specimen that belongs in the Fender Museum as a permanent exhibit.

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Post subject: Re: Cool Fender History
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2019 4:53 pm
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Should be on loan to the Fender Museum along with this video! Wow, Just Wow!

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Post subject: Re: Cool Fender History
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2019 5:44 am
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That IS cool! Thanks for sharing.


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Post subject: Re: Cool Fender History
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2019 10:28 am
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Glad you enjoyed it.


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Post subject: Re: Cool Fender History
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2019 3:38 pm
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What's that huge extra tube mounted directly on the power transformer all about?


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Post subject: Re: Cool Fender History
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 12:04 am
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It looks like someone (Leo?) relocated the 5Y3 rectifier to make room on the chassis for a couple of extra tubes to provide additional gain stages. Not anything I've ever seen before.

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Post subject: Re: Cool Fender History
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 8:54 am
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Looks like maybe someone put a dummy socket on the PT, to hold a spare 5Y3 coke bottle rectifier? As the smaller 5Y3GT seems to be in-place, on the chassis.

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Post subject: Re: Cool Fender History
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 10:51 am
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Yes, it also has the stock 5Y3 in the normal place.

Since they say Leo used it as a platform to test mods, having someone who knows amps go through it and do a forensic analysis would be really fascinating.

Would love to know why he shoehorned that oversized PT with second rectifier in there.


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Post subject: Re: Cool Fender History
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 7:40 pm
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Some info on the transformer buried in this schematic, I believe.
https://philcoradio.com/library/downloa ... l.%202.pdf

I wonder if this is an early "experimentation" that eventually became the dual tube rectifier 5D8 twin.

Pure WAG on my part. Or conjecture for the more erudite of you out there.

Despite what is said in the video, that tranny ain't "original" to a model 26.


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Post subject: Re: Cool Fender History
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 11:54 pm
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vinyl wrote:
I wonder if this is an early "experimentation" that eventually became the dual tube rectifier 5D8 twin.


A distinct possibility.

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Post subject: Re: Cool Fender History
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2019 6:54 pm
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Call me weird if you like but.............I'd like to smell that amp when it's on!

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Post subject: Re: Cool Fender History
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2019 7:26 pm
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The scent of broiling horse-hide adhesive has been known to send tone chasers into olfactory nirvana.

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