| New Amp Day: Kasino Club! [message #28728] |
Mon, 01 August 2022 15:34 |
MrShake
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Registered: August 2021
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Added one more new member to the family, so to speak, a Kasino Club head!
It arrived dirty and worn, but functional, mostly. Some initial testing with a power strip and chopsticks to twist knobs and brush strings, everything worked well enough. I got in there and did another 3-prong conversion, and set it up for more testing.
- The pilot light isnt working. Obviously, my first thought is a blown bulb. Can anyone point me in the right direction, please? (EDIT: I've found the posts indicating a #1829 bulb)
- Reverb works fine. I thought I needed a shorting plug to activate it, so maybe the jack is oxidized, or maybe I misunderstood what I'd read. Either way, it sounds great.
- Slight bulging on the safety spot on the filter caps, which means I'll plan on taking this into the shop. I don't have a lot of faith in my own ability to properly secure the newer, smaller ones inside the chassis.
- Does anyone have advice on decent replacement knobs for Kasinos? I haven't been happy with any I've spotted. Since I took those pics, I've rearranged the knobs so the inner channels have silver caps and the outer ones just have a little dot of white tape. It gets the job done.
- Pots and jacks need a good cleaning, but not terribly scratchy or poppy and everything pretty much functions as it should so far, knock on wood.
Parts codes (the ones I could see) were a 1970 transformer and a few early 1971 resistors, to my recollection from this morning.
So, rough cosmetic shape, but good bones, and it was only $70 including shipping to my door. Which couldn't have been cheap, with the weight of these things.
Two cabs and three heads... I'm getting dangerously close to a Kustom(ish) Kollection!
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