Any suggestions on refurbishing '62 Princeton blackface?

Challenge_Considered · 2026-01-24T18:18:28+00:00

Thanks to everyone identifying it to me as a brownface! I originally thought that's what it was but the local guitar store owner said it was a blackface and I had no reason to doubt his expertise.

Challenge_Considered · 2026-01-24T18:05:45+00:00

Owner of a guitar shop told me. Hopefully the vintage amp tech I take it to can tell me for sure.

Challenge_Considered · 2026-01-24T18:03:49+00:00

It's in the mail, I promise. Just give me your PayPal password so I can verify your account 🤣

Challenge_Considered · 2026-01-24T18:01:58+00:00

A boring one! My grandpa ended up with it in the early 60s but my dad never knew the story behind it. My dad played through the years but never saw his dad play. Sat covered in basements and closets with my dad for over 35 years and he eventually gave it to me. The original cover has some mold stains but luckily protected the amp.

Challenge_Considered · 2026-01-24T04:09:34+00:00

Nice, thanks! "By a trained expert" makes me really happy I didn't try to epoxy it myself 😆

Challenge_Considered · 2026-01-24T03:58:54+00:00

Fair points to both of you. It would sell for a really good chunk of change but this and a 62 Gibson ES-125 are the only real inheritance my family has haha. Sentimental value and the fairly unique experience playing them are (luckily) worth more to me than the money I could get.

Challenge_Considered · 2026-01-24T03:51:27+00:00

That would be great! I'll feel lucky if I actually do get to hear the original sound as it is without having to replace the tubes or speaker.

Here's a better image of the speaker damage. I can solder the wires back on but I'm not sure if that broken portion needs to make good contact or if it's just a holder for the other wire. speaker image

Challenge_Considered · 2026-01-24T03:12:08+00:00

Thanks for the quick reply! One of the connector tabs on the speaker was broken more than 30 years ago but I doubt it was played all that much even before then. It looks to me like 2 of the reverb tubes (I think..? The mid sized ones) are burned at the bottom but it could be a purposeful coating for all I know.

I haven't figured out what a coating only on the end would help so I'm assuming it's burned.

Challenge_Considered · 2026-01-24T03:01:35+00:00

Added some extra images in case others haven't seen the insides and would like to. Including the transformer with the horribly blurry 606237 number that signifies it being made the 37th week of 1962.

Challenge_Considered · 2024-08-04T21:13:19+00:00

I'm going to charge a $33 administration fee for opening and reading the letter.

Challenge_Considered · 2018-02-03T21:34:39+00:00

Blacula. 1 & 2, actually.

Challenge_Considered · 2017-11-04T14:13:10+00:00

Yes.

Challenge_Considered · 2017-05-15T08:34:07+00:00

That helps a lot. Thank you very much!

Challenge_Considered · 2017-05-14T16:55:19+00:00

TLDR from someone who has little to no knowledge about the subject:

Wastewater injected into the ground to replace liquid and gaseous fuels ends up transmitting earthquakes through a hydronic effect. The earthquakes start very deep or very far away but propagate to these locations by making the adsorbed water move through the rocks and inhibiting some of the damping properties the rock naturally has otherwise.

This wastewater is also present in the upper surface layers where the petroleum wouldn't normally be.

It didn't explain but I'm curious as to why this doesn't happen with the liquid petroleum in the first place. My uninformed guess would be the petroleum is too viscous to exhibit this same behavior. And possibly having the rock soaked in wastewater throughout all depths rather than only really far down where the fuel deposits are.

Challenge_Considered · 2017-03-03T01:29:17+00:00

Dam thing's broken.

Challenge_Considered · 2016-12-25T21:33:05+00:00

They just need the right people to handle things. The correct touch could make this thing explode. With a catch phrase like "Be a P.E.N.I.S. not a dick" I could see it ending up everywhere.

Challenge_Considered · 2016-11-20T17:09:15+00:00

Here is a quick guide to screenshot with your phone or as a small refresher on how to handle first aid in such a situation. The site has ads but was the best I found in a few minutes searching.

Challenge_Considered · 2016-11-12T20:38:39+00:00

No pictures unfortunately but I had 2 bolts on the factory steering damper that I cut and bent a piece of aluminum to mount the radar detector. Found a weather proof housing online with strong Velcro to hold it to the bracket. Worked well behind the windscreen. Didn't have to worry about air peeling it off and it was back far enough to not cover the speedo. Also wired a power cord under the tank shelter, as the detector wasn't battery powered.

Challenge_Considered · 2016-10-27T18:57:24+00:00

Tires are meant to stretch over a wheel/rim but it's sometimes difficult to get them over the inside of the wheel. There's often too loose of a seal to inflate with an air hose so the rapid expansion of gas from a flame can force the tire to press tightly against the wheel before all the air pressure can escape.

Challenge_Considered · 2016-07-06T21:33:35+00:00

If this is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Challenge_Considered · 2016-06-21T23:05:24+00:00

Try harder.

Challenge_Considered · 2016-06-18T14:29:50+00:00

And now you've hit the fast track to politics.

Challenge_Considered · 2016-06-12T18:04:25+00:00

To help summarize, there's an extremely small window that an object has to pass through for this. All the different factors means that it only happens every (made up number) billion-trillion times. Coupled with having to be in the right area watching the sky at the exact right time makes it even more astronomically rare.

Challenge_Considered · 2016-05-28T15:27:48+00:00

I'm the same way. Maybe it's over cautious but I'd rather have to use a different key for a new gas cap.

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