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Post subject: new surprise free amp and pa day :)
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 10:57 am
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this was a strange day :D the wife phoned me this afternoon to tell me that one of the women who work with her told me to go to her husbands work when i finished as he had a pedal board for me 8) the guy works in the recycling center in my town , anyway i get there and he said it's a wee amp and it was over the other side of the yard in a container .
i walk over and to my complete surprise there was a peavy mace vt tube amp and a peavy 400 pa head 8) 8) , so i loaded them up and got them in the house , they both fire up :P and work perfectly :twisted: i'm, blown away , i expected that they would need some work but no :D
just done a bit of digging and found out it's 160 watts :shock: , so far it's been at 2 and it has a nice tone , i need to wait on the wife going out to turn it up some more ,
anyone else have one of these ?
well i'm off to play about with this amp some more :twisted:

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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 11:06 am
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That's a great little amp,Peaveys can crank out some great tone.Did you slip the guy a few quid to keep an eye open for other sweet finds?

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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:38 pm
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Christmas, in October :) I'll bet lots of perfectly good gear, or in need of a little attention gets dumped, guilty myself, good Idea guitslinger to give the guy a few to keep an eye open, nice find Alansaab 8)


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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:42 pm
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Christmas, in October :) I'll bet lots of perfectly good gear, or in need of a little attention gets dumped, guilty myself, good Idea guitslinger to give the guy a few to keep an eye open, nice find Alansaab 8)


That's cool. My 1957 Dano U! came out of a trash can.LOL

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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 5:52 pm
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Congrats man! I love these stories! Free AMP :D

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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:24 am
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yep , i was blow away guys , i ordered up a set of tubes for the bad boy today , only 2 are working just now , but still i can't complain :D and i think i need to rewire a footswitch for it as well :D

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Yeah nice one alanssaab, one man's junk is anothers man's treasure 8)


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Let's see pics when you get a chance...

Here is my freebie from last year. A Carlsbro was put out with the trash near my home... before and after. Needed a fuse holder and the pots needed cleaning.

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Let's see pics when you get a chance...

Here is my freebie from last year. A Carlsbro was put out with the trash near my home... before and after. Needed a fuse holder and the pots needed cleaning.

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That looks cool Kong, nice job


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Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 10:29 am
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kong , i had the bass version of that carlsbro back in the early 80's , it never let me down once in all the years i had it , thinking about it i've been very lucky with all my gear , never had any major probs 8) , i'l;l try and get a few pics up soon mate , ive been up to my eyes sorting a clutch on a renault clio , cheers
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Both of my vintage fuzz boxes were saved from the trash in a local guitar store.A very rare Tim's Own Fuzzer Buzzer and a first year Big Muff Pi and a couple of minutes with a soldering gun got both of them working again. I recently saw a 1st year Big Muff on Ebay for over $500 and I can't even hazard a guess on the Tim's Own value.

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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:48 am
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well i got a set of valves on the way home tonight and put them in the mace so it's firing on all cylinders now 8) what a nice sounding amp , i've never been that keen on peavey stuff but this is in a class of it's own compared to the modern peavey amps :D . i'm watching a 4 switch foot pedal on the bay , hopefully i'll get it and rewire it to work with the mace 6 din plug , and then all it needs is a set of wheels on it , it's a heavy bugger :D and i might renew the grill cloth at some point as well , cheers
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Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 2:42 am
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sorry it took so long guys , heres a pic of the mace 8)

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Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:31 am
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well tonight i finally got to turn the mace up a bit :D it was only about 2.5 but man what a nice sound with the strat , i also got the treble booster i bought , some sweet rory gallagher sounds were coming from the mace , for an amp that cost nothing , ok it looks a bit roadworn :D , i think it's a keeper 8) cant wait to wind it up a bit more :twisted: .

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