How to remove a faceplate from a Fender amp??

[B Bent]

I am replacing the silver faceplate on my Lux to a Blackface one. Anybody have any tips???

 

[UfoPilot]

Re: How to remove a faceplate from a Fender amp??

It should be just glued on. try heat.

 

[Bludave]

Re: How to remove a faceplate from a Fender amp??

If you can get a razor blade in between th chassis and the plate at the corner it should just peel off from that point. The hard part is getting it started!

 

[Stratcat]

Re: How to remove a faceplate from a Fender amp??

If I remember correctly, you have to remove the chassis, and unscrew the tone and volume controls and the faceplate should come right off.

 

[Ringo]

Re: How to remove a faceplate from a Fender amp??

remove the knobs, then the nuts for the pots that are under the knobs, and the nuts on the input jacks, also the bezel around the on / off indicator lamp. After that it should come off pretty easily, might be a bit of glue but a putty knife would work good to seperate the faceplate from the chassis.
Note that if you are going to use a repro Fender black faceplate on an older silverface Fender amp, you will have to enlarge the holes, the new amps use smaller diameter pots.
Easy to do with a good drill bit or Unibit.

 

[Stratman]

Re: How to remove a faceplate from a Fender amp??

Several of the blackface amps have a brass plate under the face plate.

I assume it's for grounding or shielding.

 

[WhoFan]

Re: How to remove a faceplate from a Fender amp??

seems like a lot of work just to change the look to a Blackface... I guess the speaker grill should be changed too? I thought that was different on BF's too?

What's wrong with the SF look?