what do you do with your dead reverb tanks

[BrianS]

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?

[thetragichero]

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)

[Williamblake]

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.

[BrianS]

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...

[MWaldorf]

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

Shorty pans make good pedal enclosures, too.

[kagliostro]

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 ?







Franco