'69 Drip-Edge Bandmaster TFL5005D

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I guess that the messy HT cap arrangement is to facilitate stacked caps either side of the choke, to cope with the high voltage from the TR PT.
I suggest to consider looking for suitable, small form factor 600V caps, then stacked arrangements won't be necessary, and they can all live in the doghouse.

[Tom Phillips]

I guess that the messy HT cap arrangement is to facilitate stacked caps either side of the choke, to cope with the high voltage from the TR PT.
I suggest to consider looking for suitable, small form factor 600V caps, then stacked arrangements won't be necessary, and they can all live in the doghouse.

Actually...I still don't understand what the modder was thinking. All the power supply filter cap ratings in the Bandmaster Reverb aa1069 TFL5005D are identical to those used in the various Showman amps of the era. Since the power transformer was swapped out there would be no significant B+ voltage increase due to the change from a tube rectifier in the stock amp to a SS rectifier with the showman PT.

Even though we see the Andre sticker per Tone Meister's post #10, I wonder if Andre Audio-Tronics in NY, NY was really responsible for the mod. I certainly would not want to put my name on a messy workmanship mod like the one we are discussing. Maybe they had serviced the amp before the mod was done. If so that illustrates a down side of affixing an advertising sticker to an amp. I personally think that it's poor form to place the stickers anyway. I put it in the same category as car dealers that glue their badges on the trunk of a vehicle.

Tom

[Justin Thomas]

Also possible that that's the dealer it was originally purchased from. I've bought several amps that had the dealer stickers on them, and it's fun to see where they came from... my Bassman came to VA from Bob P.s turf, and my former Bassman 50 came from The Dude-Land, along with an appropriate SD SSN scratched in it. My Concert came to me from FL and I found the original owner's son on Facebook... And my 69 Dual Showman Reverb had never left town, being sold the first year one of the music shops had opened, coming to rest in the then-current Fender dealer's hands, then I sold it to a friend who moved to Richmond. Funny to think that amp may never have traveled more than 60 miles in its lifetime...

Now, I have yet to find any stickers of "proudly modified by..." on any of my amps, lucky for the jerk who trashed that Bassman 50...

Justin