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Amp Stuff => Tube Amp Building - Tweaks - Repairs => Topic started by: phsyconoodler on November 07, 2013, 11:09:55 am

Title: what to do with a butchered bandmaster head!
Post by: phsyconoodler on November 07, 2013, 11:09:55 am
A customer brings in a silverface bandmaster head for repairs that he bought off E-Bay not working.Well it was butchered beyond repair.I didn't take a picture but it was a mess.
  So the guy who did the butchering drills umpteen holes in the chassis so he could install all these terminal strips and hand wire it.Absolute mess!
  So what to do?
Dump the chassis and rebuild it into a 6V6 Overdrive Rocket,that's what!

Here are some finished pics.I left the grillecloth and cabinet untouched.It is 22 watts of ripping amp now! Typical dumble Lite circuit.
Title: Re: what to do with a butchered bandmaster head!
Post by: eleventeen on November 07, 2013, 11:57:52 am
Pretty cool! Do you have FenderCare?  :l2:

Woulda liked to have seen the "before" pix. Probably look like some of my builds, LOL.
Title: Re: what to do with a butchered bandmaster head!
Post by: Willabe on November 07, 2013, 12:14:08 pm
Quote from: eleventeen on November 07, 2013, 11:57:52 am
Pretty cool! Do you have FenderCare?  :l2:

No, he's in Canada. He must have Traynor care.


              Brad     :l2: 
Title: Re: what to do with a butchered bandmaster head!
Post by: TubeGeek on November 07, 2013, 05:53:44 pm
Nice resurrection :occasion14:
Title: Re: what to do with a butchered bandmaster head!
Post by: phsyconoodler on November 08, 2013, 11:42:18 am
Oh,let me see....silver faceplate......silverface transformers.......chassis was serial # silverface....Cabinet may have been a blackface cause of the grillecloth.Don't know for sure cause it was so butchered inside that it's hard to tell if he just stuffed the chassis into the cabinet.
Title: Re: what to do with a butchered bandmaster head!
Post by: sluckey on November 08, 2013, 02:42:13 pm
I bet phsyconoodler knows exactly what he's talking about.
Title: Re: what to do with a butchered bandmaster head!
Post by: sluckey on November 08, 2013, 03:02:33 pm
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I'll have to post pictures, because its like no fender I've ever seen.
Please do.
Title: Re: what to do with a butchered bandmaster head!
Post by: HotBluePlates on November 08, 2013, 05:29:55 pm
Quote from: drgonzonm on November 08, 2013, 02:59:43 pm
... its like no fender I've ever seen. 

You did read the original post, right?

Quote from: phsyconoodler on November 07, 2013, 11:09:55 am
A customer brings in a silverface bandmaster head ... Dump the chassis and rebuild it into a 6V6 Overdrive Rocket ...

It's a new amp build in a new chassis with a new faceplate and knobs. I'm guessing the only things worth salvaging from the original amp were the transformers and the existing cabinet (whatever its vintage).
Title: Re: what to do with a butchered bandmaster head!
Post by: Slimtim on November 08, 2013, 09:31:50 pm
I would reuse everything i could and just rebuild the circuit.
Title: Re: what to do with a butchered bandmaster head!
Post by: sluckey on November 11, 2013, 06:22:04 pm
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and I will post pictures and schematics
Still waiting. Always like to see a unique amp.