Vibro Champ Part 1. 

What I tell people asking about original caps is that Leo Fender started out as a radio repairman. And the genius of his amp designs is that he made them easy to be serviced. *Because he expected them to be serviced.* He would view a 60 year old cap as a slap in the face to everything he was trying to do with his designs.

I've had premature failures with CE can caps. I used another a few weeks ago, so fingers crossed on that, but I think I'm going to make a standard replacement board for Champs/Princetons so I don't have to use them in the future. A little FR4 board that will sit over the old cap and allow high quality radials.

Totally in tune with your thoughts and experiences . Doing half a job is no good for the customer or our reputations . Yet still , once in a while a job can come back with another problem . A classic valve amp is like a classic car . It's going to need maintenance , and other things will still fail . It's naive for anyone to think otherwise . And those modern valve amp models that we don't want in our workshops are the car equivalent of high performance vehicles . They're going to need a lot more maintenance than a run-around , and it's going to cost the owner sooner or later .

Your knowledge of this stuff just blows my tiny mind.

Champions !!! I love it . Great Video Brad .

Great video from a retired amp tech. Cheers from the US and A..!

Well done

New caps in an amp is a good thing.

Could you put an RC snubber across the HT secondary to reduce the power up surge?

Poke and hope wiring on that cap. Reports of those modern cap cans being really unreliable. Considering how expensive they are that sucks.

Is there ever a time of the morning when a square wave isn't *too aggressive*? 🤣

I’m to the point where I won’t look at an amp unless they agree to a $200+ possible budget.

"The Doctor wheel sea ewe now". Someday I'll apply four Soc. Sec., hand send my VHT (designed) Chinese 'hand-wired' Special-6 out two sum lucky "tech", hurd that a guy named Lyle doze good work?😏 Consensus seams only snobs w/ Fender, Marshall or VOX actually get service, all udders just get shamed, mostly. Butt, wheel sea wont oui?🇺🇸✡️✝️