"N_Cook" wrote in message
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Where's a hagiogolotre when you need one.
Do you really need to take the pa apart just to test the valves. Is there
a
Jim Crow for this job, to avoid dismantling? plastic screwdriver to wedge
between valve and base ? long handled plastic pipe wrench to grab the
envelope, or some sort of suction cup to pull them out ?





No, just undo the 20 or so screws needed to remove the amplifier chassis and
reverb tank from the cabinet and plonk the whole lot on the bench.

Done it quite a few times now, probably takes me 3 minutes max.
Certainly a lot less time than faffing around wedging screwdrivers and bits
of piping and then spending half an hour trying to get the valves back in
their sockets blind.

Time you bit the bullet, I reckon, and got out that powered screwdriver.


As for the melted IEC inlet, no doubt it was too close to the fire.



Cheers,


Gareth.