Neat little amp! WOW speaker! I played weekends for 35 years. Always used Fender amps. Never had a single one let me down on stage.Thank the Lord there are still some transformers available for us!

It's not a Fender, It's not an Ampeg reverberocket, but still it deserved to live again. Great job Terry 👍👍👍

D lab Electronics your utube videos are awesome

Awesome video. Thanks for sharing. Great to see Old Schnozzeramous in action.

So happy to see an Ameg repair. I never understood why they are valued less than other tube amps. They have great sound! Great video Terry.

🤘🏼Snozzaramus in Action again 😂

G'day Snozz ol' pal.

Very interesting, lots to think about here...thanks for sharing.

Great fix Terry.. Nice walk thru and tech info..Snozzeramous to the rescue..! Take care..Ed..UK..😁

Nice repair Terry !!! If you want, send me the burnt transformer.. I'll rewire it and send it back to you for stock ( assuming the inside is not completely fried)

Nice repair.

Snozzeramous in the house!

Great repair Terry. Looking forward to part 2 on this. :)

Beauty.

What an interesting circuit Ampeg designed in this model...who woulda thought to use crayons instead of capacitors...

I bought myself a nice 50/100W temperature-controlled soldering iron with a large bit a few years ago, I nicknamed it "Big Bertha" really handy for re-soldering earth-wire bonds to amp chassis, I found that out while doing some work on my mid 70's Fender Super Twin amp (the one without the reverb circuit).

These old amps still have a place in today's music space. One of my favorites to record with is a Rheem from the late 50s. When hit with distortion it turns into metalhead's dream.

Great repair, surprised there was a replacement power transformer available.

Cool.

Thas looks like a fairly nice amp to me, thanks for saving it

Dam I have one of those amplifier with Jensen speaker,was told that transformer was problematic,my panel has accordion printed? Good amp,not fender either! I almost want to send chassis to you to update!

Not a cheap amp at all. It was definitely worth repairing using a new PT.

I can’t tell you, how many of their amps over the years I have seen at him fest and in use music stores, kind of weird. But they are an awesome amplifier and I love the way they sound

Good job

Looks like all the magic smoke escaped...

sup D-lab

D LABS< can you explain how adding a center tap that it lowers the noise reduction? Its a common mod is to never use the standby switch and add in thermistors to prevent the amplifier from IN Rush current. I have never seen you measure the IN rush current on amplifiers which is damaging the filter caps over time.

Not soldering the tabs on the electrolytic can to the chassis was responsible for killing the now unobtainable tweeters in many Ampex AA-620 powered speakers. Bad mistake by the big boys.

I don't understand people who insist on strict originality. If I saw an ad for a 67 camero and the seller advertised "original oil and filter" I wouldn't think "oh good, it's original." I'd think "oh God 55 year old oil. That thing is wrecked."

Great job Terry! Who did the recone? I have an old AlNiCo Jensen from 1959 that needs a proper recone.

Snozzeramus reminds me of the large bladed soldering iron that appeared in some of the Heathkit Education videos. When I first saw it on your videos, I wondered if it somehow made it up I-94 to you?

Terry there is audio glitching in your videos. It happens for example at 0:04 when the text appears. It may be something going wrong with the video editing software during rendering.

I do like your videos very informative. I have a Laney lc15r valve amp and its power transformer gets very hot after around 40 minutes, i can touch it but only for two to three seconds. What can make it heat up so much.?.. i was told if i turned the bias down a fraction it may help but alas it still gets too hot. regards

My dad has a bigger soldering iron that's small 😂

Terry, at 5:35 you mention adding a center tap. Did you add a center tap for the 6.3VAC secondary? The reason I ask is that I just built a 5F2 and the Hammond transformer has a center tapped 6.3VAC secondary. What's the best thing to do with that center tap?

Not very valuable? I see several online close to a grand.

It's not a Fender, indeed - it sounds BETTER than Fender tweed amps, as most Ampeg amps from that era do. Everette Hull, unlike Leo Fender, was a musician who tuned the amps to sound as good as possible for jazz guitar players, who have the most discriminating taste in tone. Leo Fender, however, made amps to be easy to work on, and inexpensive as possible to build for maximum profit. I collected Gibson and Ampeg "golden era" amps because Fender was too expensive, but over 20 years later having had experience with many Fender amps too, I've decided my Gibson and Ampeg amps sound BETTER than Fender amps, and many guitar players agree with that assessment. I have a great sounding Deluxe Reverb clone of the 1964 circuit with a Weber 12F150 - it sounds as good as any DR I've heard, but I rarely use it because my Ampeg and Gibson amps sound better to me. As for value: Gibson has been going up, and now Ampeg is starting to go up. A Mercury like that sells for ~$1,000USD, depending on year and condition. I see a Mercury listed for $1,500USD, another one for $999USD. The M15 or "Big M" is even louder, with larger transformers and 15" speaker, 6L6 power tubes. I think the Mercury, Jet, and Rocket amps sound better then a Fender Deluxe from that era. My Gibson tweed amps are Fender slayers too, not in volume - in great tone!

Never underestimate the power of electricity. Our governments are starting to feel the effects of doing just that with the huge push for electric everything.