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Re: Club Kasino [message #20039 is a reply to message #20023]

Thu, 23 January 2014 06:45

stevem
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Registered: June 2004
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In regards to the 5129 pc schematic, our site does not list it in the tech section and I myself do not have one.
Maybe Pleat or Bill on this site do however and we can then pin down what you need in regards to a replacment reverb pan?

Once Fender got bought out by CBS and got into the penney pinching silverface era of amps the wiring layout when to hell and they had to place many small value tone sucking caps to tame the oscilation problems that some of these amps had due to this relaxed QC level.
In those days you could get one given Fender amp from a production run and it would be fine and need the tone sucking caps,while the very next one had a issue!
This is not to mention that they also switched over to the brown epoxy coulping caps that test quite poor for ESR, which this in and of itself could make any circuit oscilate.
Why they chose in 76 to stay with these poor sounding caps, yet blow the bucks on going to UL type output transforms in even the guitar amps is a question that I would love to hear the story about the thought process that led to it!!

Just to offer up a example of the lack of QC, I have what must be many 1976 pro reverb amps ( 2 output tubes) that was made with a output transformer for a ( 4 output tube)twin reverb amp!
I pickedup this amp from the original owner who was never really fully happy with the amp, no wonder as it only put out 35 watts of RMS power when it sould have had 68.
Fender`s rating of these amps being 75 RMS is not true.

Here`s a classic example of how to mis- manage a company, CBS buys fender for 13 mill and then ends up having to sell it off due to poor sales for 1 mill less than the purchase price, at a time when the other top amp manufactures products where selling well!

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		Club Kasino By: Mic Ferad on Mon, 20 January 2014 15:23
		Re: Club Kasino By: stevem on Tue, 21 January 2014 06:28
		Re: Club Kasino By: pleat on Tue, 21 January 2014 06:51
		Re: Club Kasino By: stevem on Tue, 21 January 2014 07:41
		Re: Club Kasino By: chicagobill on Tue, 21 January 2014 17:47
		Re: Club Kasino By: pleat on Tue, 21 January 2014 18:12
		Re: Club Kasino By: Mic Ferad on Tue, 21 January 2014 20:04
		Re: Club Kasino By: stevem on Wed, 22 January 2014 14:45
		Re: Club Kasino By: Mic Ferad on Wed, 22 January 2014 19:10
		Re: Club Kasino By: Mic Ferad on Wed, 22 January 2014 19:39
		Re: Club Kasino By: Mic Ferad on Wed, 22 January 2014 19:50
		Re: Club Kasino By: stevem on Thu, 23 January 2014 06:45
		Re: Club Kasino By: chicagobill on Thu, 23 January 2014 13:13
		Re: Club Kasino By: Mic Ferad on Thu, 23 January 2014 20:32
		Re: Club Kasino By: Mic Ferad on Thu, 23 January 2014 21:05
		Re: Club Kasino By: chicagobill on Thu, 23 January 2014 22:50
		Re: Club Kasino By: stevem on Fri, 24 January 2014 06:45
		Re: Club Kasino By: chicagobill on Fri, 24 January 2014 11:43

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