Transformer trouble?

[Lloyd Fisher]

Great, thanks for the advice and source.
The tubes are the bulbous glass.
The 16uF filter caps are something else. They're like candy bars.

[Leo_Gnardo]

Great, thanks for the advice and source.
The tubes are the bulbous glass.
The 16uF filter caps are something else. They're like candy bars.

Good ol' fashioned build, wires all laced up, ready for Sunday School. I note on your schematic there's no phono input. So - on the amp is there one or only a mic input? Either way it looks like a medium difficulty conversion to guitar amp. Not super simple, but also not too much of a challenge.

[Lloyd Fisher]

Yes, there's just the mic input, and it's not wired in.
I had originally thought to clear out the PE stuff and use the existing jack.
I've also thought about possibly trying it with the existing caps. With a variac and current limiter.
This doesn't seem to have been used much.. it sort of looks new, if you know what I mean.

[drewl]

Okay, those two cardboard boxes under the nickel are dual capacitors.

They are most probably bad, as were the ones in an old Gibson amp I repaired recently.

[Lloyd Fisher]

Got it.
Good info.
Thank you for the heads up.