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Did they upgrade the speaker to a 10" size? new baffle board or just cut a bigger hole? ok, see that, rough cut a bigger hole & broke the bb in the process. Nice. =) I put a Jensen Alnico 8-Inch (P8R4) in my '76 Vibro Champ and it rocks!! Great tone, no need to butcher the cabinet.

Would you compare this amp with the ceriatone OTS ?

I just bought a used Deluxe Reverb, clean sounds pretty good but any high gain pedal it sounds super flabby and ice picky... just terrible, the more gain the worse it sounds. Can you help me understand whats malfunctioning? Thanks so much.

Thanks for this video.The reason I was considering buying a Casino was just that they are light in weight. But, I don't want another project, and a new Casino sounds like a project. I seldom play electrics anymore anyway.

I had an electrician upgrade the wiring in my old house. When he got thru, every screw head slot was straight up and down. Nice touch.

I wanted a good quality plywood baffle for my 73 PR which needed the grill frame replaced anyway so I used the stock baffle as my cleats for a new baffle that bolts in where the grill frame originally sat by cutting down the baffle to 1" on each side. A lot of work with replacing the grill and mounting a new 12" speaker, which also allowed me to use a adaptor ring so i have a choice of a 10 or 12 and after paint a layman cant tell anything has been done.

For the amount of time to restore old bus wires, might have just removed with the caps and used new bus wire, no?…

Great vid. Got a ‘69 champ all original that got a couple of tone caps, full ‘65 style rewiring, and plays great but for a bit of noise probably from eyelet power leakage to signal nodes. But your champ is definitely worth a bit of work to restore.

First of all, thank you so much for the details on this guitar, it allowed me to make my own modifications. I do have one question; in the stock wiring diagram on your site it shows both pots as "log", meaning audio taper I assume? The thing is, on my RSS02T the volume acts much more like a linear pot, with most of the volume change happening in the first 20-30% of turning the knob. I was wondering what I'm missing. Thanks,

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Hi Lyle, I wish you a beautiful Pentecost!

I really liked the sound through the shop cab.

5:58 - 22k ohms

Lyle, if you do decide to reinforce the weakened particle board, don't use ordinary superglue, it's too thick; Titebond "waterthin" CA glue, formulated for woodworking, is a better choice. You might not find it at an ordinary hardware store but a woodworking supply company such as Woodcraft will usually stock it, or you can buy it online. Alternatively, "Hot Stuff", made by Satellite City, is another good waterthin CA glue, but it doesnt last as long in storage as the Titebond CA glues. Titebond makes a medium viscosity CA as well, but if you really want it to soak into the particle board then you should use the thin formulation.

hecks yea, shout out to the legend Norm Abrams!

I hate it when my baffle bulges. Belay the bituminous byproducts!

Off topic but Hello sir, I’m a new fan of yours. Love your videos on UA-cam. Your insight and knowledge is very helpful. I thank you. I know this is a long shot and I’m not sure if you will reply but I need help with deciding which amp. I have the option of buying one of 2 TopHat Royale Amps but I’m not sure which one to purchase. One of them has an effects loop and one doesn’t which leads me to believe the one that has the effects loop had it installed afterwords. The one with said effects loop is being sold out of a store and the one that doesn’t is being sold by a studio. The one with effects loop has a green Celestion g12-m and a Weber blue dog. The one without it has 2 g12c-30 speakers. I’m putting the link to the one selling out of the store and I attached photos of the one being sold out of the studio. Do you think it would be wise to the one that’s been at a studio since most likely it hasn’t been tinkered with? Any guidance would be very helpful.

Hello sir, I’m a new fan of yours. Love your videos on UA-cam. Your insight and knowledge is very helpful. I thank you. I know this is a long shot and I’m not sure if you will reply but I need help with deciding which amp. I have the option of buying one of 2 TopHat Royale Amps but I’m not sure which one to purchase. One of them has an effects loop and one doesn’t which leads me to believe the one that has the effects loop had it installed afterwords. The one with said effects loop is being sold out of a store and the one that doesn’t is being sold by a studio. The one with effects loop has a green Celestion g12-m and a Weber blue dog. The one without it has 2 g12c-30 speakers. I’m putting the link to the one selling out of the store and I attached photos of the one being sold out of the studio. Do you think it would be wise to the one that’s been at a studio since most likely it hasn’t been tinkered with? Any guidance would be very helpful.

Hello sir, I’m a new fan of yours. Love your videos on UA-cam. Your insight and knowledge is very helpful. I thank you. I know this is a long shot and I’m not sure if you will reply but I need help with deciding which amp. I have the option of buying one of 2 TopHat Royale Amps but I’m not sure which one to purchase. One of them has an effects loop and one doesn’t which leads me to believe the one that has the effects loop had it installed afterwords. The one with said effects loop is being sold out of a store and the one that doesn’t is being sold by a studio. The one with effects loop has a green Celestion g12-m and a Weber blue dog. The one without it has 2 g12c-30 speakers. I’m putting the link to the one selling out of the store and I attached photos of the one being sold out of the studio. Do you think it would be wise to the one that’s been at a studio since most likely it hasn’t been tinkered with? Any guidance would be very helpful.

Hoping the owner is ALL IN...🤞🤞👍

I feel like the battery industry might be scamming us. I've also discovered a similar occurrence. The $2.50 carbon zinc 9v i got from the corner store lasted longer in my blues driver than the more expensive energizer alkaline (same as the one you're showing). The Energizer also does something odd. After a few days, where my pedal stays off when i plug it in, then for about 5 days the pedal automatically turns on when i plug it in. It didn't behave like that with the carbon zinc battery. (Snuffelupagus)

New cab.

Very fixable. Staying tuned for this one.

I have a similar vintage Champ that was refreshed about 6 years ago. You're right that little amp is a poor thing in comparison. Picked mine up about 35 years ago for $75.00, second best deal I ever got

If I wanted to change the can capacitor to three F&T caps which ones would you use? I’ve lost faith in the CE cans.

I build my own amps, pedals and guitars when I can afford to so I absolutely understand the original owner wanting to learn a little and do some mods. But jumping into a tube amp for your first project is like a teenager with a learners permit deciding they are ready to race the Indy 500. It kills me that those guys don't even learn to properly solder before they unleash their plumbing soldering iron and acid core solder on these otherwise really nice instruments. It's just so foolish smh. Again, I was a beginner once so I understand the desire but when I was a beginner I started on my own circuits on vero/stripboard not fully functioning quality gear. And even when I did start to do mods with my amps and pedals I always had the rule to never remove functionality. I only add more so that if the amp, pedal or guitar ends up with someone else (or is borrowed etc) they will still have all the original functionality of the instrument with the OPTION for other sounds, configurations etc.

I give the person credit for thanking the customer for allowing him to learn on his behalf.

since you mentioned Norm, you'd be great on This Old House. The electronics expert.

They took that thang to the butcher shop for mods, gyat dang!

from a tech to another. to straighten solid core wire is a technique you already know. put one end in a drill and the other in a vice or pliers and spin a little bit, it will be straight as an arrow, do it all the time,

Sorry, said they fused the neutral but they are switching the neutral (the other no-no).

I believe that speaker is a 1028K. Good speaker when operating correctly.

Thanks for the video - are those Nichicon caps really all that bad ? I’ve used them before and would probably tend to leave them in, but now also use the Vishay MAL series.

These ones are always kind of troubling to me. How much $$$ do you put into a 1975 Champ before you cry Mercy? From the sound of it the owner would be getting a new amp tho. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I'm an inexperienced first time Fender Deluxe Reverb amp kit builder. These detailed videos are immensely helpful. Thanks!

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Code word "bazinga"! How does your soldering iron know when to come up to temperature? Is there a switch in the cradle?

Hey, Lyle, don't get worried about the long videos - I love them, it gives me an insight in how a professional approaches the job, all of the details that go into repairing an amp so that it 'stays repaired'. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with us.

Am I bad to stretch the bus wire between two pairs of pliers ? My word is "Poontang" .

thanks...things can be so easy....I've should have known this 2 weeks ago...now I have probably a dead power supply after an EL84 said goodbye with a blaze of beautiful purple lightshow glory...since then the amp is dead (fuses,screen grid resistors are ok though)...

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Magic tools? A jeweler friend has a piece of hard maple that was drilled then cut and carefully filed and hinged so you close it over the lead wire and pull. He makes some killer expensive rings from hexagonal profile soldered gold alloy wire. There are also drawing plates and rollers, but a good roller is over $4000 and a drawing plate is useless for lead straightening. 99.999% of those solder fumes are flux and dirt. I have melted lead ingots to pour into a soup can wrapped around a rusted off drain pipe so I did not have to cut into the concrete foundation of the house. I never saw, or smelled any fumes or saw any smoke coming from the crucible or the ladle. Lots of the modern lead has sulfuric acid in it now from using recycled car batteries. The gaps in between the A pillars, the cab & body of old pre 1970 GM pickups was all lead filled and then sculpted at the factory. Before Bondo lead was the auto body filler of choice.

Exchange rates and shipping costs kill the US prices - works the same way in the opposite direction. US gear is more expensive in Europe.

Hey! I am very interested in buying a new Fender Princeton Reverb reissue amp that I can throw in the car and take with me wherever I can plug it in and play. And if no one wants to hear me play at home, I love the idea of this beautiful sounding amp being small enough that I can simply pick it up and plug it into any room in the house, basement, garage, or back patio. So if I buy a new amp and ship it to you to have these mods done, how much will that cost? Let me know. Thanx.

I really enjoy the long format videos. I also enjoy your work style. I have learned a lot through watching them too. Thank you. Code good work!!! ✌️✌️✌️

Hey Lyle. My method to straighten wire is to put 1 inch of about 3 feet of wire in a vise on the side then use lineman pliers to grab the other end then jerk it a few times. This will give you a straight piece of wire to work with. Of course you could use less wire. It works for me

Nice video as usual Lyle! Jewelers use wire straightening pliers with replaceable nylon jaws, you draw the wire through at a right angle to the jaws. The nylon pads get replaced when they get too grooved, several videos show these on YT but I cant link one here. Many cool tools at beading/jewelry shops, including a Bead Works unit that makes an 1.5mm auto loop unit I'd love to try on jacks /pots. On the battery front the Energizer Max are crappy, and they want 4x more $ for their lithium's (which are 2x better capacity) When available Titanium Innovations at Bat Junction are an excellent deal for 9v for $6 each for a 10pk (with 10yr shelf life)

The devil is in the detail! Apples and pears!

I stopped using alkaline batteries many moons ago. I use either rechargeable batteries or lithium batteries depending on the device and/or application. No one makes a good rechargeable 9 volt battery but lithium 9 volt batteries have been available for a number of years now. Energizer and Amazon both offer 9 volt lithium batteries. The Amazon Basics lithium 9 volt batteries are less expensive than the Energizer lithium 9 volt batteries and as far as I can tell over these past few years they last just as long as the Energizer lithium 9 volt batteries. A major bonus is that lithium batteries do not leak. They cost more but they last a lot longer - and did I mention they don't leak?