The Doom Room: ILF Edition

[Beasleyboy]

Do the screwholes and everything line up? If so, just take a Dremel to it. Hoping that it's an easy fix, my dude.

The screw alignment is close, but a little wacky. The p90 routing on it was too small to fit the pickups but I've already taken a dremel to it. I'm fixing some nasty routing in the pickup cavity so I want to get a proper pickguard as well

[conky]

With some help from Nick I got the amp running. The other guitarist in the band is an electronics technician and went in and fixed the grounding on the two filter caps and it fired right up. Gonna order new filter caps and some new tubes for it and then I can start running it full time. Still no word from those jackasses who I bought it from though.

[D.o.S.]

Fuck them.

[Iommic Pope]

Fuck them.

But at least you got it done without it being something far worse.

[conky]

Fuck them.

Indeed.

Fuck them.

But at least you got it done without it being something far worse.

Yeah, luckily it didn't fry everything else. Its gonna kill me to let it sit at a tech's shop for however long to get fixed. I need top put the Model T in there too for a recap while I'm at it.

[new05002]

With some help from Nick I got the amp running. The other guitarist in the band is an electronics technician and went in and fixed the grounding on the two filter caps and it fired right up. Gonna order new filter caps and some new tubes for it and then I can start running it full time. Still no word from those jackasses who I bought it from though.

solid. Dont know maybe shit was just on the way out with those ground tabs. Its not a super complicated amp so it should be an easy fix up once its ready to be teched. Wish I lived closer so it would be easier to help you out.

[conky]

With some help from Nick I got the amp running. The other guitarist in the band is an electronics technician and went in and fixed the grounding on the two filter caps and it fired right up. Gonna order new filter caps and some new tubes for it and then I can start running it full time. Still no word from those jackasses who I bought it from though.

solid. Dont know maybe shit was just on the way out with those ground tabs. Its not a super complicated amp so it should be an easy fix up once its ready to be teched. Wish I lived closer so it would be easier to help you out.

Yeah, if you lived closer that would be awesome, but I really appreciate your help trouble shooting it through messenger. Its hard to find anyone around here that knows how to work on amps. The guy I have been using is about 75 years old and I think he's losing his mind because when I took it to him a few days ago he said that he never worked on a Marshall before and literally the last two amps I had him work on were Marshalls.... a 2204 and a JCM2000. I'm going to North Ga this weekend for a wedding and I'm gonna drop the JMP and the Model T by Acorn Amps in Atlanta and they're gonna fix them both up for me. The guy on the phone said that they could fix it same day for $50 extra and they the techs up there will be fighting to get to work on my amps because they love all that vintage stuff up there. Matt got his Dual Showman recapped by them and he hasn't had any problems. Just lucked up that I can get it done without having to make an extra 2 hour drive.

[emptyparadigm]

Dudes, quick question -- if I pull the reverb tank from my X100b , will it affect how the amp works or anything? I never use it, and I just rehoused it in a smaller headshell. I can probably swing putting it in there if I need to, but I would love to not pull it back apart and/or fuck with installing it. What do y'all think?

[Iommic Pope]

With some help from Nick I got the amp running. The other guitarist in the band is an electronics technician and went in and fixed the grounding on the two filter caps and it fired right up. Gonna order new filter caps and some new tubes for it and then I can start running it full time. Still no word from those jackasses who I bought it from though.

solid. Dont know maybe shit was just on the way out with those ground tabs. Its not a super complicated amp so it should be an easy fix up once its ready to be teched. Wish I lived closer so it would be easier to help you out.

Yeah, if you lived closer that would be awesome, but I really appreciate your help trouble shooting it through messenger. Its hard to find anyone around here that knows how to work on amps. The guy I have been using is about 75 years old and I think he's losing his mind because when I took it to him a few days ago he said that he never worked on a Marshall before and literally the last two amps I had him work on were Marshalls.... a 2204 and a JCM2000. I'm going to North Ga this weekend for a wedding and I'm gonna drop the JMP and the Model T by Acorn Amps in Atlanta and they're gonna fix them both up for me. The guy on the phone said that they could fix it same day for $50 extra and they the techs up there will be fighting to get to work on my amps because they love all that vintage stuff up there. Matt got his Dual Showman recapped by them and he hasn't had any problems. Just lucked up that I can get it done without having to make an extra 2 hour drive.

$50 extra for same day service and enthusiasm about your gear sounds totally worth it to me. It's getting harder to find good amp techs but I think in your case it might be worth breaking from what you know.

[christianatl]

As an ATLien, I can attest to Acorn's badassery. Andrew Wiggins from Hawks, Wymyns Prysyn and a million other rad bands works there, as does Andrew Elstner from Torche.

[conky]

Hey dudes, I hope this isn't spam but I just posted the preorder for LEECHMILK's "Starvation of Locusts" LP.

https://divinemotherrecordings.bandcamp ... of-locusts

[Iommic Pope]

Hawt!

In other tube amp related woes: I finally decided to dick around with the AOR and figure out what all the shitty noise and weirdness was about.
Think I've narrowed it down to a dodgy volume pot, although that amp is not without its issues.
Found out that Tym's put an unmatched pair of tubes in it, though. As well as not fixing any of the issues I took it to them to resolve when they replaced them.
Thanks, asshat.
Luckily I had some ancient JJ EL34Ls from way back that were shit when I got them, but at least matched. They definitely need replacing (as they make background ring mod noise) but at least they were fucking closely matched.
NOT nearly 20mA out from each other.
No shit.
Honestly, that store gets talked the fuck up, but unless you're in trendy band X flavour of the month....

Sorry, just angry.

[D.o.S.]

At least they didn't goop the insides of your amp when they fixed it.

[Iommic Pope]

That's true.
Although if they'd actually fixed it I wouldn't be pokin around in there and wouldn't find out if they had until I went to bias my next set of tubes. So that wouldn't bother me so much if things actually worked.

[conky]

She lives! Recapped and converted it to run the NOS 6550s that came in the Model T. Speaking of Model T, got the filter cap that was capping out swapped out too. Now I gotta wait until Monday to play them because I'm up in North Georgia for a wedding.