Tweed Princeton 5F2A - Learn diagnostic and repair techniques to make this amp safe and original.

In this video, you may learn skills that apply to your amplifier, such as the correct way to wire a fuse and power switch for safety, and how to make the amp slowly and safely drain the filter capacitors. You will learn how to test for leaking coupling capacitors, how to calculate the static dissipation of a cathode-biased amp and how to convert pico and nanofarads to microfarads. Ted Weber was the Leo Fender of amp speakers. Chris relates a couple of Ted anecdotes (apologies to Chris’ customers whom he has tied to a chair while force-feeding such anecdotes). Thanks go to Sunburst Music of Coogee, Australia, (the current owners of this gorgeous amp) for allowing Chris to secretly covet this piece of musical history. Index 00:00 Introduction 01:15 Visual Inspection 01:50 The White Elephant 03:23 Wrong Reservoir Filter capacitor 04:44 Filtering is important with “cheap” filament/heater wiring 06:15 Let’s make it safe! 07:20 Are Americans odd? 09:27 The corre