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| The board had been Cracked on mounted Input Jacks! |
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| A real vintage look for a formerly cheap lil amp. |
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| I replaced the volume pot and also knob with a small Chickenhead knob! |
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| I got my Dad to fit an old Woodcut I did in Art for missing backing! |
My friend gave me this amp that he had lying around that he said didn't make a sound. Later, I disassembled it and found it had a damaged volume pot, but that wasn't the problem. After replacing it with one of Mammoth Electronic's odd oversized pots I realized something was still wrong as there was no sound still. It all looked good until I took the board out and flipped it upside down. This time I cleaned the dusty old board well with an old toothbrush and rubbing alcohol. Now that I could see the board better I noticed a crack on the board severing the connections coming from the inputs jacks. So I used an exacto blade to scrape and expose the the cut copper path coming from jacks and soldered a bridge across using the legs of unused resistors I had. This solved the issue and now the amp works great. It has some very interesting eq's and works as a good monitor in my tight apt area and with my my strat. I read later that I can sheild those same two inputs better from the back to eliminate interference as well!
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