tube amp down time
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Posted on Jun 10, 2005 09:26 pm
Johnny Hero
Member Since: Apr 26, 2002
So, I'm going away for 2 months... is there anything I should do to my tube amp to prepare it for 2 months of non-use?
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TadpuiI am not a crook's headMember
Since: Mar 14, 2003
Jun 10, 2005 11:09 pm Not that I know of for just 2 months. Unplug it from the wall, put a dust cover over it, and bon voyage.
Now if it were 20 years, maybe be prepared to retube it and have new capacitors put in, but for 2 months just make sure that dust, moisture, heat, and critters don't get to it.
Jun 10, 2005 11:34 pm That won't be too hard; it's packed up in a flight case.
pjkPrince CZAR-mingMember
Since: Apr 08, 2004
Jun 11, 2005 09:13 am send it to my house, i'll run 'er =)
TadpuiI am not a crook's headMember
Since: Mar 14, 2003
Jun 11, 2005 09:51 am LOL, I totally forgot the babysitting option! You totally beat me to the punch!
The flight case should more than suffice! I just had a vision of a family of hornets deciding to make a home in there and the commotion ensuing from the first use of the amp afterwards. That could make it onto America's Funniest Home Videos!
"Wow those guys can mosh!"
jmailjimmie neutronMember
Since: Feb 14, 2005
Jun 12, 2005 08:58 am I had that happen when I was like 18 something, with the band in the garage. Personnel conflicts/changes left the garage rather quite for like a 3 week period of time. More than ample time for wasps to make a nest and begin to hatch. Man, was that scary, trying to get a 4 piece band and guests out of a one door garage with wasps mad as hornets!!! The poor drummer was on a stool, of course, back in the corner. Had blond hair that the wasps apparently found easy to spot. He got hit like 5 times on the head. Ouch. I only got it once on the shoulder. From then on, only "finished" spaces for the gear. (and a quick look-over before every start!) Scares me just thinking about it again.