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Post subject: Problems with my Twin amp
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:15 am
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I got a 200 watt Twin Reverb amp from 1990...its been well-used over the years...while carrying it one time i slipped on some ice and wiped out with it. It went down hard, I replaced all the tubes but it has never been the same ever since... every once in a while ilt will just sound like a bomb is going off in it...it sounds like i'm dropping it again and this time its plugged in...a friend suggested lining the bottom of the reverb box with a rubber gasket.... Any one else have a similiar problem???


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Post subject: Re: Problems with my Twin amp
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 6:53 am
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Hi billyboycott,

The reverb tank might be a good place to start looking. You might want to pull the tank and see if all of the springs inside are intact, the four in the corners that suspend the tank in particular. Taking a fall like that, any number of connection points could have been damaged or knocked loose, but the reverb tank may be the part least able to withstand the fall. :idea:

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Post subject: Re: Problems with my Twin amp
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 9:09 pm
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"Sounds like a bomb is going off"

Yep, definitely reverb tank.


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Post subject: Re: Problems with my Twin amp
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:01 pm
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shimmilou wrote:
but the reverb tank may be the part least able to withstand the fall.


+1

It doesn't take much to damage the filaments that secure the springs to the transducers.

I'd look at the tank first.

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