Recent content by roml3

My blues deville comes on and works fine and then it will come on and go off sometimes responding to foul language and minor beating and sometimes not and then will work great for hours. tubes all have less than 30hrs. any suggestions will help? I can fix it but it wont stay broken!

I have a Fender Blues Deville that needs recapping. I have made a list using my schematic but I would like a definite list of which caps are needed, any suggestions as to where to find one?

I am trying to find a list of replacement capacitors for my blues deville and the fender support web sight page doesn't come up...any suggestions where I can get the info

I have an SD 84-40 when I bought it the volume would fluctuate (sometime wildly) and there was a pretty fine hum coming thru the speakers. I re-capped and replaced all tubes the same problems are still there. the volume problem seems to be in the pot but it happens after the amp has been on a...

I have seen this question about the hum in an 84-40 it sounds like a large transformer I changed speaker wire and it helped. but I still have a hum.

can anything correct the hum in my 84-40 its been recapt and new tubes ?

My 84- 40 needs a ch. 1 overdrive pull boost switch/pot. the schematic or manual doesn't have enough info to order one. The old one is scratchy and jumps in volume but works. I would like to find a new one and not pull the old one to try to get info. from it Its a nice little amp and I don't...

I Ordered new capacitors for my 84-40 most came in Identical. some came in half of the physical size of the original. all tolerances were matched perfect (capacitance,voltage,temp.rating) but were half as big as original. will it matter?

I was playing through my 84-40 amp, and the volume on ch. 1 was fluctuating. One of the 12ax7 was dim. another guy there had an old one I plugged it in the socket and all seemed fine...for a few seconds and it blew the fuse twice and I shut my amp off. I ordered some tubes and capacitors and all...

I have an 84-40 amp that I love. she started having problems (volume up/down and some unwanted distortion) I looked in back and the 12ax7 on the end close to speaker was dim and went out. I changed it, after coming on and working for about a minute it blows the main fuse. I am knowledgeable on...