Amplifier Restorations

Well thankfully, that’s over and done with. This has taken more man hours than I would have liked. After sorting out the bias faults, all […]

Something nice to work on today. A 50 year old Leak Troughline FM tuner, still with it’s final inspection ticket 11/9/69. Fitted with a Mullard

Friday morning project. A very tired Fender Pro185. Okay, not a hot glowing glass bulb of loveliness in site. But we need the bills paying

Nice big Rivera 120 Watt amp came in today. Very heavy at 5.5 tons. Blown mains and HT fuses and 4 output valves (EL34) looking

Don’t see many of these nowadays. Early 1970s Sony TA5650. One of the first amps to use VFET transistors in the output stage. Nice amplifiers

Just to set the scene. A warmer than average day for this time of year, a nice bag of oranges brought in by a customer,

Not seen one of these Fender variations before. basically looks like a Twin Reverb / Bassman 100 Watt, with a reverb unit and 4 basic

Well that was a surprise. A nice afternoon I thought, quick check over, even with the blindfold on….Oh no…A Quad 33-303 came in with the

This 1970s tuner amp came in Sony STR333L. Owner wanted it brought back to life. Had a twiddle with the tuner knob (amplifier’s not the

This big brute of an amplifier came in from a local guitarist. Sounding very distorted, a quick scope checked should one half of the output

Not seen one of these for ages, the a customer brings in two. I never really got to the bottom of how many variations on