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Steve, saw your edited post. Yes, I did check the extension jack first.
Anyhow, it worked, and finally I got to hear it without the 15" internal speaker pounding the reverb tank making the springs rattle. The handle isn't rattling and the microphonics from the tubes aren't rearing their ugly head now lol. The power tubes don't have retainers, and the 5u4g surely appreciates not being pounded. It doesn't sit to tight to begin with, but it's not that bad. I'll get a retainer for it down the road.
The extension cab is an old Sonic 212 in great shape. I doubt it was hauled around much. I picked it up at a local shop cheap. The staff member thought it was an 8 ohm cab, and didn't know what speakers it had in it, but offered to let me pull one and see. I was pressed for time, so he told me to try it out and bring it back if I didn't like it.
The speakers turned out to be Celestion G12L's 8 ohm, which I'm delighted to see because they were one of two models I wanted to try with the amp. It has 2 EL34's yielding about 40 watts and the G12L's are 35 watt, so I've got a 70 watt cab and it's a good match for the amp I think.
I didn't get to crank it yet because everyone else is asleep here, but man, I can already tell a huge difference at low volume. I'm already thinking of how I can build a box and put it all in a head. In the mean time I may pull the 15 out of it so it will be easier to haul around.
Features galore for such an old amp
My next adventure will be trying to figure out how to make use of all three channels. The reverb and tremolo only work on the "stereophonic" channel. The tech that looked at it said he thought that's how it was designed. I know I can use an A/B box to switch channels, but I'd like to use a combination of any two, or even all three at once.
Anyhow, here's the cab
Anyhow, it worked, and finally I got to hear it without the 15" internal speaker pounding the reverb tank making the springs rattle. The handle isn't rattling and the microphonics from the tubes aren't rearing their ugly head now lol. The power tubes don't have retainers, and the 5u4g surely appreciates not being pounded. It doesn't sit to tight to begin with, but it's not that bad. I'll get a retainer for it down the road.
The extension cab is an old Sonic 212 in great shape. I doubt it was hauled around much. I picked it up at a local shop cheap. The staff member thought it was an 8 ohm cab, and didn't know what speakers it had in it, but offered to let me pull one and see. I was pressed for time, so he told me to try it out and bring it back if I didn't like it.
The speakers turned out to be Celestion G12L's 8 ohm, which I'm delighted to see because they were one of two models I wanted to try with the amp. It has 2 EL34's yielding about 40 watts and the G12L's are 35 watt, so I've got a 70 watt cab and it's a good match for the amp I think.
I didn't get to crank it yet because everyone else is asleep here, but man, I can already tell a huge difference at low volume. I'm already thinking of how I can build a box and put it all in a head. In the mean time I may pull the 15 out of it so it will be easier to haul around.
Features galore for such an old amp
My next adventure will be trying to figure out how to make use of all three channels. The reverb and tremolo only work on the "stereophonic" channel. The tech that looked at it said he thought that's how it was designed. I know I can use an A/B box to switch channels, but I'd like to use a combination of any two, or even all three at once.
Anyhow, here's the cab
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