So as I posted a few times before, I had melted a tube on my Marshall Major, and it had no volume and was thin and fizzy sounding (before I noticed a tube was half melted). I emailed Dawk (who did work on Richie Blackmore's Majors and is supposed to the the ultimate Major guro!) and he said to check for fried wires.
So I got bored the other day and took the amp out of the chassis. Removed all 4 tubes. The tube sockets look good.
So I finally got to read what was on the tubes. The only one I could really see what it was without removing it I could tell was a GE 6550, which was a little larger than the others and the one that melted. The other tubes were a Sylvania 6550, a RCA 6550, and a Phllips 6550... all major US companies that stopped making tubes a while ago!
As for components, all I could see that looked fried was a capacitor that had turned black. I was planning on getting the amp recapped and all the capacitors look original, so that is not much of a problem if it is the problem!
So I got bored the other day and took the amp out of the chassis. Removed all 4 tubes. The tube sockets look good.
So I finally got to read what was on the tubes. The only one I could really see what it was without removing it I could tell was a GE 6550, which was a little larger than the others and the one that melted. The other tubes were a Sylvania 6550, a RCA 6550, and a Phllips 6550... all major US companies that stopped making tubes a while ago!
As for components, all I could see that looked fried was a capacitor that had turned black. I was planning on getting the amp recapped and all the capacitors look original, so that is not much of a problem if it is the problem!