Post by humanbn on Sept 14, 2008 12:31:28 GMT -5
I have this 70's leslie amp. I don't have the model # in front of me but it is printed on the inside of the amp. Anyway, the problem I have been having with this project has been causing me a headache for a few years. I work on it, think I have it fixed and when I turn it on the same resistor catches fire every time. Let me start from the beginning, when I reach the end I'll stop. I got this amp from a friend who used to run his guitar amp through it. He decided one day that he didn't want it any more so he let me have it. It had set in his barn, which used to be our jam room. It was actually an old milking room adjacent to his barn but had mice in it none the less. I took the amp home and removed more objects from under the cone and around the inside of the amp than I care to mention. I will say, however, that the mouse, or rat, had taken the time to stuff a tote bag in the approx. 1/2 inch space under the cone. After removing what was probably 2-3 years of mouse urine form the circuit board and replacing the fuse tube I turned the beast on. It worked fine, cone rotation and all. I pushed the amp across my basement floor to where my guitar amp sat, plugged the two up and no longer did the thing work. Shortly after turning it on and looking at the inside for a moment it caught fire. Lame! I cleaned up the board replaced the resistor and checked for shorts, I thought that it could have been an exposed wire on the fuse tube so I taped that up, and plugged it back in. The same thing. Lame! To me it seems like there is a short in there but I can't find it. I'm not sure what could have happened in the 10 ft that I pushed it across the floor. Weak!