recapped vt-40

[Hangman]

Beautiful job on the turret board. Nice touch the "Locktite®" on the mounting studs. Was this a custom board or an off the shelf item. It's great to see that techs still take pride in their workmanship. "

I've done this for 46 years and recently retired and it is amazing how little pride anyone takes in their work anymore.

Agreed! I spend more and more time undoing poor work done by bad techs.

The board is custom. We often do a similar board in a few Sunn models.

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This is just a picture of the recap job performed by my friend and coworker Cooper Smith at American Music in Seattle.



The capacitors for the screen supply and one of the 3 40uf caps that are used in the preamp section were all put on one turret board and mounted above the transformer.

there is enough clearance to do this in the later vt-40s or any of the v-2s. Something to consider if you have one and want to recap it.

Hey Hangman! I have migrated here from the ampegV4 forum due to all the spam traffic and maintenance. I also have a high quality scan of an original V4-B schematic from the inside of the the amp if you want to add it to your collection.

I have been out of a job and working on more and more amps lately. Hopefully I will start to get more of a local following, If I can do enough and make if worth while I hope to one day open up my own guitar/amp repair shop here.

Keep up the post/photos and good work!

Glad to see you here! yeah the spam traffic is out of control. I am abandoning the ampegv4.com forums. I couldn't secure ownership of the ampegv4.com site and the owner wasn't going to update the forum or allow me to erase massive numbers of spam users.

its a drag because there is so much good information on that site. but we'll just have to rebuild the knowledge base here.