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Post subject: NAD.....but what is this
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 3:06 pm
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1970 Silverface twin......whats the deal with a sn# like this..." a sticker ".....no the usual chassie #. Anyone ever seen this? I looked a Superoir music for #'s and 1970 show something wierd........

Twin Reverb AB763, AC568, AA769, AA270 (silverface)
A10500 to A11300 - 1967
A10500 to A16500 - 1968
A16500 to A21400 - 1969
A21400 to A25600 - 1970
0100 to 3400 - 1970
A25600 to A37000 - 1971
A37000 to A50500 - 1972
A50500 to A68000 - 1973
A68000 to A99999 - 1974
A81000 to A99999 - 1975
B01000 to B15000 - 1975
B15000 to B68000 - 1976

mine says Ser No. 2470

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Post subject: Re: NAD.....but what is this
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 3:35 pm
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Peel the sticker off.

Odds are, you'll find a stamped serial number beneath it.

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Post subject: Re: NAD.....but what is this
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 3:13 pm
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I found it......... per Gagliano

Do you have a silverface Twin Reverb Amp or Dual Showman Reverb Amp with the serial number A23373? A lot of people do and here’s a plausible explanation based on the evidence. Sometime in 1970, Fender ordered a bunch of Twin Reverb/Dual Showman Reverb chasses from their supplier. The machine that stamped the serial number into the back of the chassis got stuck on number A23373 and a lot of pieces were stamped with this number. It would have been very costly to destroy these units so two remedies were implemented. First, a foil sticker containing a 4-digit serial number was affixed to the chassis over the A23373. Unfortunately, these often peeled off or were removed by the amp’s owner thus revealing the A23373 number. The second thing that was done was the addition of another number stamped into the chassis as a suffix to the A23373 serial number, e.g. A23373-155.


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Post subject: Re: NAD.....but what is this
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 4:19 pm
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hogrydr wrote:
I found it......... per Gagliano

Do you have a silverface Twin Reverb Amp or Dual Showman Reverb Amp with the serial number A23373? A lot of people do and here’s a plausible explanation based on the evidence. Sometime in 1970, Fender ordered a bunch of Twin Reverb/Dual Showman Reverb chasses from their supplier. The machine that stamped the serial number into the back of the chassis got stuck on number A23373 and a lot of pieces were stamped with this number. It would have been very costly to destroy these units so two remedies were implemented. First, a foil sticker containing a 4-digit serial number was affixed to the chassis over the A23373. Unfortunately, these often peeled off or were removed by the amp’s owner thus revealing the A23373 number. The second thing that was done was the addition of another number stamped into the chassis as a suffix to the A23373 serial number, e.g. A23373-155.


Interesting!

Thanks for sharing that, hogrydr.

Stay "vertical", sir!

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Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2014 8:01 am
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I know this is an update to old post, but here is a shot of the "sticker" I have on my 1970 TR

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Post subject: Re: NAD.....but what is this
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2014 8:31 am
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I seem to recollect a sticker like that on a '70 Twin Reverb I once owned "way back when".

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