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In 1973 a good beer buddy of ours purchased this used Fender Champ Amp. The amp is rumored to be used in one of Leon Russell's studios. According to the S/N it was manufactured in 1964. The problem was the amp no longer worked and we asked if we could try a shot at fixing it.
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My assumption (that was correct) was the capacitors had lost all their capacitor magic. However, I quickly discovered the amp was also missing a tube. Oddly, the T-12AX7 tube was easy to get.
Surprisingly the odd value 450V capacitors that Fender used were hard to get and pretty expensive. We found a 'kit' of 450V capacitors and put some values in parallel to get the desired values. Not "pure Fender", but the amp is rockin' again and that was the main goal.
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