Silvertone 1431 Restoration | The Electric Lady 

My 1431 is my baby. Got it in 2015 from an uncle and it sent me on a rabbit trail for a few years to track down the 1432 and 1433. My favorite amp series of all time.

This video helped me solve a problem I’ve had for months on my hand made Champ in 5 minutes. Was about to replace all the tubes when I realized all I had was a bad connection with the pre amp tube in it’s socket. Bit of deoxit and we’re back in business after 4 months of sitting! Thanks for the help!

Very nice and clean repair. I am 60 with only high school band experience but appreciate your old soul for mellow sounds and keeping up the old school equip ment.

So refreshing to see a woman in this field. Sausage fest be damned

Two awesome cameos: the dog...and the boots! Haha. Another awesome vid! Thank you!

Crazy how clean it was inside

Love the gritty sound of that amp at the end!

Neat little amplifier. I love the minimalist construction of the chassis, built to a price but still very robust.

Gentle suggestion: J-hook the leads to preamp tube socket for mechanical strength instead of the solder securing the wires to socket eyelets as solder can crystallize and break free with time, heat and mechanical vibration in these ‘Hi Power’ jobs! LOL

The boots, girl, the boots!!! They look so good. The inside of this amp looked so pristine. Love your videos. You Pros make everything look so easy but it's not

Such a snazzy looking little amp and great repair work! Well done!

I am shocked by how clean that is !

love the silvertones. great little amps. another fine job!

Ayo Coleen, I love your laidback style, no pressure, just relaxed poking around stuff and being curious. really something, makes me want to find my old soldering iron and dig in some guitar electronics.

Love all your videos. Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us.

Great job, amp sounds wonderful. It has that classic CCR tone when you cranked it up at end, love it!

love the clean sound. A good jazz amp.

Thanks you for what you are doing. I love learning and seeing these old circuits. Great looking boots! Yahoo! 🙏-I came via your interview on TAVA with Skip.

Great job troubleshooting, nice fix! The amp really sounded great when you were done. Several lifetimes ago I was a Electronic Tech, your video brings back memories.

These videos are gold!

can i say that the work you are doing is great and to see a lady ( young ) is to be admired keep up the great work from the uk

It's always fun to carefully touch a tube while in the back of your mind knowing there are hundreds of volts in there, then hearing a loud bang/crackle. 2:46

That's the first amp I owned. Bought it from a friend for 15 dollars. Sounded great when driven with an MXR Distortion Plus.

I like the quality of your work and Your trouble shooting approach on amplifiers.... Great job...

That's a gorgeous amp

The amp is remarkably clean inside.

You’re a darn good amp tech!

Love your videos. Looking forward to the Patreon page. Keep it up!

Glad to see your subs skyrocketing, Colleen! Fully deserved.

Great old amp. Keep up the great videos.

Excellent work and neat video. Those old amps are awesome.

That amp is really clean!!

Another great video! Worked as an auto tech in dealerships and the instructors always preached “KISS” keep it simple stupid! You can easily go KRAZY making a problem more complicated than it actually is. The hallmark of a great tech is keeping the diagnostics realistic and in an orderly fashion. Love the boots and the pupper needs a raise!

Nice one, I have a 1472 setting behind me, my Dad found it years ago, love it, don't even need a distortion pedal, just natural tube & speaker distortion. Nice video.

Sears amps are FUN !

Pretty dang 😆 dang ol’ clean original amplifier... Great work 👍

Great video Colleen! Watching your videos is beginning to rub off on me. I had a strong suspicion you were gonna replace that cathode by-pass Capacitor! I thank you immensely for the knowledge you are sharing through your channel! God bless, Bob

I had one of those when I was a kid. I discovered the magic of a dialed in tube amp and was trying to learn crossroads and blew that sucker up!!!!

Respect! Great find of the root cause failure. A+ for troubleshooting skills: 1) Duplicate, 2) Isolate, 3) Repair, 4) Verify. Best of luck with your successful business! Cheers from Spokane, Wa, d.

Dang that was a really cool vid. I found your channel while looking for how to safely discharge amp capacitors. I think your other videos are good too, so keep it up!

Another interesting informative video. Old practice amps have a certain cool about them. Not that I'd trade anything I have for one now, but they are so representative of the time. However this Silvertone really does have an unexpected great wonderful tone which was a surprise given the bare bones simplicity of it. Sometimes less is more.

Pretty, smart and quite handy. I love your vids 😍

That’s a great little amp!

Such an awesome design.

Awesome video! I really enjoy watching your work. Happy to be an early subscriber. You will hit 100K and 1M in no time.

Such a good sound for that small a speaker.

uncle Doug's videos are the cat's meow and yours are the dog's bark ....theramational!

My first guitar amp was a Silvertone 1482, which the neighbors always complained about. My next amp was a 100 watt Marshall Stack. The neighbor's learned very quickly how NOT LOUD the old little Silvertone was! BTW, Very cool! The Electric Lady.

Rocking the red boots!

These are really cool amps to, this amp totally goes with Red Cowbow Boots. Oh nice trouble shoot, dug it keep doing these instructional videos totally great thanks

Great K’Boy boots, nice job on the amp.

Suggestion: most times you can remove/replace just the bad tube pin connector (use an old socket for the piece). Save you the time of replacing the whole socket. Great job on the repair.

Awesome job Colleen. I bet every repair isnt that simple. Nice boots btw

This is great stuff!

At 4:10, you *do not* have to replace the entire preamp tube socket ---- you can just remove a contact from another similar mini 7 or 9 pin socket in your parts stash and swap it into the socket in the amplifier to replace that one defective contact! I guarantee you it will be much easier than drilling out the rivets and replacing the entire socket. The contacts are typically held in place by either a dimple in the metal terminal (underneath the socket), a punched out triangular flap ( a hanging chad?🤔), or just a bend or twist in the terminal. Typically pretty easy to remove after a squeeze with needle nose pliers.

Nothing beats DeOxit D5 for most connection issues. My main go-to Solvent down here in New Zealand

Sounds great.

the cooles thing besides the amp repair is your red boots !!! lovely . Saludos

That bit you played at the end reminded me of early Who.

A solderless joint on that B9G socket ... I've never ever come across this .. it's amazing it ran ok from the get go ! I've never seen variable silver mica compression capacitors in an audio amp before ... they must be in a very high impedance circuit ...I don't usually spray clean pots that are this old ... I find they become noisy later ... you can't beat changing them for new ...

Fantastic

Never saw so many old amps in such a pristine condition.....as i have seen old amps in bad condition collecting dust in storeroom..... Tube amps are cool they have kind deep n clear amplification....... New all amps come with mosfets ic n transistors...... Old amps a bit had to figure out as no PCBs everything i bundled like birds nest ..... But clean amp just like this is eazy fix

You really work fast.

Cool boots. 😎 awesome work! I could have used your help with my Deluxe, before I made a mistake and sold it.

Your dog is so cool.

great vid!

Wow nice red boots at the end :) Thanks for you're video I'm learning a lot and you're job is really neet ! keep it up

You are very to the point of what is going on and why it is going on! Great video! I learned a little bit from this, you don't waste time over-complicating things! Any videos on a scratchy pot issue on a Marshall? I have a 50 watt with a Lar Mar master volume that is scratchy. They are sealed so I can't clean them, maybe a voltage bleed issue idk. Anyway great video, subbed!

My kind! Amps, music 🎵🎶 etc. Etc!

damn that sounds pretty fine!

Great !

Love these shoes 👍

Love that puppers!

I still own a Silvertone guitar. It was my dad's. I believe it's a Teisco one from the research I could find.

1:50 my favourite flavour of Deoxit.. Up here in Canada it is $27.00 a can! That's like 20 bucks US$. 😳

Great Vid cowgirl !

I’m in love.

Haha, I have this amp!! Its awesome!

Love your red cowboy boots!!!!

Nice boots.

Those little red boots make me wonder if you are a Lindi Ortega fan. Great video!

What an awesome video ! I’ve always wished that I knew more about tube amps - I’ve only dabbled with solid state audio amps a bit. A friend of mine had an amp like this when we were kids, but his was always giving us BAD shocks if we played outside on his patio. I suppose it was the dreaded 2 prong AC cord ?

Здравствуйте,спасибо за ваше видио.Сейчас очень мало в интернете есть подобные темы,если можно то выложите схемы тех усилителей которые вы ремонтируете .Анатолий,Россия.Москва

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Your cool!!

I find that E6000 adhesive works better for fastening caps than silicone, have you ever tried it? Home Depot and lots of other places stock it.

If i remeber correctely, these Sangamo capacitors are prone to failiure. Do you change them preventively or leave them in there and replace them only if something goes wrong ?

Hi there. Great stuff you are doing. For a change of pace, can you fix a hybrid amp, the ones with the PCB with the tube sockets attached to it (like I have). I haven't seen a video yet on how to fix one. Other than fixing dry solder joints, I don't know what's what in there. Thanks.

Sounded a lot better than the other demos of these amps I've heard. Could the filter and cathode caps really be whats making the difference? It seems too much of a difference to chalk up to the recording quality. The other demos weren't THAT bad. They all had decent head room but the other's overdrive was much more splatty.

wow ❤️ boots 6:25

Great job! Just curious to know how much does it cost to do this kind of repair?

May I ask: why do you replace the 10+10mfd cap and 10mfd cap?

nice boots

Great to see some fresh blood in the guitar tech field. Also, dainty hands are much better than the usual chubby man hands.

What's your process to check the bias?

Which DeoXit spray do you use?

Nag Champa 👍

Last bit of the demo sounds like the Kinks

yaaas

The variac that you have behind you caught my attention. I know what a variac is and some of its applications, but I was intrigued to know what use you could give it, so I thought about asking you, but before I decided to investigate a little and I learned the following: the variac serves to provide to an old amplifier such as those with vacuum tubes with the exact voltage with which they were designed to work, since in these this value is critical to obtain the correct sound in addition to not damaging them. Am I correct my friend?