Hoffman Amplifiers Tube Amplifier Forum
Amp Stuff => Tube Amp Building - Tweaks - Repairs => Topic started by: BrianS on December 21, 2020, 01:34:22 pm
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A pile of dead reverb tanks is starting to build in my shop. I know I can recycle them, but is anyone using them for anything cool or re-purposing them in some way?
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what's dead about em?
with a bit of finesse, one can remove the working transducer from one tank and replace the nonworking one on a similar tank
while not super deep a gutted reverb tank could be repurposed as a chassis for the right build (if folks can use a cake pan, a reverb tank oughta do. easier to mount in an enclosure too)
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I was very happy when i got the output coil rewound once. Only took a day or two but i am not into that winding stuff, so it was a succes to me.
You could attach inductorless springs for passive reflections, too. I havent done that, yet. Like in the big AKG tanks.
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Almost always a bad transducer. But new tanks are so cheap, it's not worth taking the time to rebuild them. I'd happily pack up any I have and send them to someone who might want to do that, if they would pay the shipping cost.
I could see possibly see using them as some kind of amp chassis...
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FWIW, if you're a kook for reverb (such as myself) you can upgrade modern pans with vintage springs - there are a lot of vintage pans with transducers spec'd for non-Fender compatible circuits, if only the Hammond pans that went with all the AO-44s we've turned into guitar amps.
Here's a video I did comparing a new 4AB3C1B pan with a new 4AB1C1B pan (short decay), a new 4AB3C1B with vintage springs, and a vintage pan.
https://youtu.be/QePZQz1u9dg (https://youtu.be/QePZQz1u9dg)
Shorty pans make good pedal enclosures, too.
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Assuming you have time to spent and you like/want experiment
why don't give a try to rebuild the old version of VOX tank ?
(https://i.imgur.com/pz5E3Yy.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/8Weuv5G.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/icPUiRd.png)
Franco