Amp servicing

[SteveXFR]

What would be involved in servicing an amp with tube preamp and solid state power amp? Is it worth getting done?

[Phil Starr]

If you think about 'servicing' a car it is about lubrication changing filters and checking moving parts. None of this applies to an amp. Most amps don't have serviceable parts or even any adjustments that need periodic 'tuning'. The valve? Well they don't last forever but something like an ECC83is going to last years and a bit like light bulbs it's hard to predict exactly when they will go. 

Save your money

Edited April 15, 2021 by Phil Starr

[agedhorse]

Why does your amp need servicing? 

[skidder652003]

buy some servisol and give the inputs a bloomin' good spray!

[SteveXFR]

4 hours ago, agedhorse said:

Why does your amp need servicing? 

I'd just seen an advert for an amp which said it was recently serviced and was just curious. 

[Dan Dare]

8 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

I'd just seen an advert for an amp which said it was recently serviced and was just curious. 

Unless it was a valve amp, probably just means they brushed the dust out of the vents and sprayed the contacts and sockets with switch cleaner.

Edited April 16, 2021 by Dan Dare

[TheGreek]

Can make a difference though. Less hiss, buzzing and burping.

[agedhorse]

6 hours ago, Dan Dare said:

Unless it was a valve amp, probably just means they brushed the dust out of the vents and sprayed the contacts and sockets with switch cleaner.

Sure hope they don't go spraying things down with "magic cure-all spray", I see plenty of gear damaged from such treatment. ESPECIALLY switch contact cleaners.

[agedhorse]

16 hours ago, skidder652003 said:

buy some servisol and give the inputs a bloomin' good spray!

Good God I hope not, for the sake of the tech that needs to clean up the resulting mess at least.

[Killed_by_Death]

 

ahem,

spraying directly onto the plug & then plugging & unplugging

yay or nay?

 

[agedhorse]

 

1 hour ago, Killed_by_Death said:

 

ahem,

spraying directly onto the plug & then plugging & unplugging

yay or nay?

 

This is generally fine. 

Spraying into the amp usually gets incompatible substances where they don't belong, creating new and messier problems to deal with.

[BassmanPaul]

There's an old saying that goes something like: don't fix what ain't broke!

[beans-on-toast]

It’s a good thing that Chrysler doesn’t make amps.