My grandfather had a tv repair shop for most of my childhood. Watching these videos reminds me of coming home from elementary school in the afternoons and into his shop. He would always have Jerry springer on and pretend it was an accident. I would sit and watch him look at circuit boards and schematics. Thanks for the bit of nostalgia from your videos

Wow what a mess! If the guy who did that really works for an authorised Fender service centre they should fire him, preferably out of a cannon!

Love the Big Star t-shirt.

cant believe I watched this whole vid - i just got sucked in - very enjoyable to watch you work - ty!

WOW! Glad to see you making the point about cost of tech time / components versus the cost of some of these modern amps. I would imagine, by the time you were done with this, it is going to cost near the price of the amp if the guy goes ahead with it.

Wow this is the first video that ive watched of your stuff that i now can put a face to the voice ;-)

Great video and I love how you explain everything and see things from all perspective points .

Very well said, and a great explanation why these newer amps cost a lot to repair. These amps are cheap to make but not so cheap to repair.

It is pretty. I like that tolex color.

This will be a fun one to watch

I feel for that customer of that blue's junior when they goes back to the original service Tech and find out that they lied to them it's the biggest bunch of BS. That's the kind of crap that makes me not want to do business with someone ever again. Keep up the good work.

Great video. Subscribed!

Cool tip on the cap discharge…thanks!

$300 repair to a $300 amp can buy you 20 years of reliability.

When someone tries to desolder a connection on a circuit board and they use a "solder sucker", the solder pads will pull off. Solder braid like we have seen in the Psionic videos is much better for desoldering.

Looking at future amp purchases with much more knowledge...

Great cap drain technique !!!

Years ago I purchased a very popular mod kit (caps, resistors, audio pots, jacks) and decided to mod my hot rod deluxe III.

So sad to see this kind of amp-abuse. I’ve been guilty of this too when I was really new to amp tinkering, but it’s so common on inexpensively made PCB Fender amps. I cite my 1990s Princeton Chorus with the flimsiest board I’ve ever seen. I’ve given up on mods or repairs for this reason. It is what it is, and it’s never going to be any better than that. Well diagnosed issues on this Jr, thanks.

Black Magic Amplifiers here in the UK do a very nice quality, double-sided replacement tube board for the Blues Junior series.