Tiny Amp Death Camp

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Tiny Amp Death Camp

Post by Mr. Peabody » Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:30 pm

I found this Montgomery Ward amp in a furniture store for $75. I assumed it was an 8" speaker, but when I took off the back board it turned out to be  6".
It is pretty crazy. Very farty at first. But it worked. I assumed the speaker was ripped, but it looks fine. I tightened the speaker to the baffle and that helped. It is super fuzzed out on 10. I can get some nice cleans when I roll my guitar volume down. It's really all about the psycho fuzz though. Single notes change and sound weird as they decay. It's not going to become my main amp or anything, but it will be good for something.
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Post by Mr. Peabody » Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:47 pm

The third tube doesn't have lettering in front of it. I thought that the 55JDR referred to that tube?

What is an isolation transformer?

Thanks for the advice, even though it is not what I hoped to hear.
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Re: Tiny Amp Town Too

Post by Mr. Peabody » Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:56 pm

I don't know why I had to ask what an isolation transformer is, while on the internet.
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Re: Tiny Amp Town Too

Post by Mr. Peabody » Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:08 pm

The tube on the left is a 35Z5GT
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Re: Tiny Amp Town Too

Post by Maggieo » Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:29 pm

Whoa!

Danger Will Robinson!

I'd just ran across "serial heater" in my Googling/learning about amps and was wondering what that was.  Bummer that the Monkey Ward is one.  Psycho fuzz is a Very Good Thing.
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Re: Tiny Amp Town Too

Post by cestlamort » Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:54 pm

be careful not to turn Tiny Amp Town to a ghost town.
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Re: Tiny Amp Town Too

Post by øøøøøøø » Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:48 pm

Mr. Peabody wrote: The third tube doesn't have lettering in front of it. I thought that the 55JDR referred to that tube?

What is an isolation transformer?

Thanks for the advice, even though it is not what I hoped to hear.
That would make sense.  55 + 50 + 12 = exactly 117, which is what line voltage was in the 60s and 70s (technically 120 nowadays, often in actuality more like 125 depending on where in the country and what power grid you're on).
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Re: Tiny Amp Town Too

Post by øøøøøøø » Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:52 pm

While doing a little googling about your situation, I found this thread which seems to describe an amp very much like yours.  Probably the very same one, sold under a different name.

http://music-electronics-forum.com/show ... php?t=1882
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Re: Tiny Amp Town Too

Post by parry » Thu Jul 31, 2008 5:43 pm

Mr. øøøøøøø, you are an amp GOD!
How lucky are we to have someone like you on the forum?!?
If I ever have any amp q's I'm coming right to the source!
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Thanks!

PS: that amp is totally something I would've picked up too...
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Re: Tiny Amp Town Too

Post by BenHagerty » Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:17 pm

Haha I would be way to scared to use that amp :)
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Re: Tiny Amp Death Camp

Post by Riptide » Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:27 pm

I have one now! hows your amp been behaving?
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Re: Tiny Amp Town Too

Post by missionguitars » Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:16 pm

øøøøøøø wrote: Be careful about that amp.  They used to call amps like that "widow makers."
Good info, thanks a million!
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Re: Tiny Amp Death Camp

Post by Mr. Peabody » Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:23 am

Riptide wrote: I have one now! hows your amp been behaving?
I haven't used it really since learning all this "death" business. I looked up isolation transformers and only found really expensive ones at the time, for some reason.

Now that I realize that I can get one for $20-$30, I'll probably get one soon.
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