EL34's Much Needed Vacation

[jhadhar65]

He really does need a vacation.  Looky here - he's all burned out!!

[tubesornothing]

That is very cool.  Two things I notice:  the protective safety envelope is an **empty** beer glass, and the blue light comes after the tube has gone to the devil.  I always get that backwards.

[jhadhar65]

>...an **empty** beer glass...

Which is, incidentally, the leading cause of tube amp failure.  If you find the empty glass lying on it's side on top of your amp in the middle of the gig and the amp don't work, you know what killed it.

But you, the amp tech, will have to figure that out on your own because there's no way the owner will ever, ever, ever tell you that's what happened... especially if he bought the amp from you.  Your only clue will be the sticky guts and the smell of charred polyester combined with something that reminds you of Lake Pontchartrain inside it.

Sorry, rabbit chase over.

[Ritchie200]

Ehh, that's too common.  I once had to clean up some sticky charcoaled goo that the owner claimed he did not know what it was.  As I am cleaning and scratching my head my daughter comes in and asks why I am talking to myself.  I show her the goo.  She finds some unburned pieces, proclaims "How in the world did they get Silly String in there!" and walks off.  I confront the owner who admits it was a surprise birthday party at a practice.  Everyone had several cans of Silly String.  Some brainiac thought it would be cool to try and light it.  Just about caught the finished basement on fire.  His "buddy" the drummer thought it would funny to fill up his 5150 head with the stuff and it also went poof.

It's time to cull the herd....
Jim