the new amp

More then 6 month´s ago I won an auction at ebay.uk. A Burns amplifier was mine, but the seller refused to send it to Sweden, Instead it was sent to me freind Richard. So for a couple of monthes Ive been hoping to try out the amp, Richard had it connected to the power and told there was a slight hum from it. So far everything was great, I even got pics of it until it arrived today.

A big package with wrappingpaper around. Got it at the postoffice and in a hurry I took it out of its cover. 

It didnt look that bad at all, but before I connected it to power, I started to check it out totaly. The back was removed, the amplifier unit unscrew´d from the cabinet. Both speakers was taken out, showing that they was in real bad state and needed exchange. 

Some cables was exchanged and soldered. Before I fired it up for the first time in Sweden. I didnt dare to connect the guitar cable or the guitar. But I could hear a slight humming when I turned up the volume controls.

Both speakers was repaird with Gaffa tape in hope that it should be possible to try it on low volume. The interior of the cabinet was clean´d and every part was put back in its proper position. Even the dents on the alloy, panel was rectified.

At last the amplifier was complete again only one cable wasnt corrected. a cable that I at least thought was for the tremolo switch! Already connecting the leads made the tremolo work as intended. A proper switch was found among me spares and the guitar was connected!!

the beauty of an electric guitar sounded from the partly brooken speakers. there was the true 30 watt power of the unit. Once upon the early 60-ies the smallest in the Orbit range. 

At last I got the ebay, finding and it profed to be working. Something I didnt think it would when I first bought it. Proper tests of it will follow as soon as those brooken down speakers is exchanged. Un til then itll still work as a nice amplifier that not only sounds good, it looks good tooooo!!

The last part of repairing-restoring the amp was to make use of my sewing machine and stich together brooken seams at the read cover.