tube amp

[SILLY RABBIT]

I have a old tube amp for a base it is a maveric 250.It was my dads it went under salt water during ike along with the rest of his things.Iam trying to find out if could be fixed.Ihave not pluged it in and it was not pluged in whin it went swiming.If it is posible to fix it were would be a good place to take it close to galveston. Thanks

[coondog]

with salt water especially it wouldn"t be worth it to spend the money on it.that salt water has to of had to do some real corrosion by now.its got to be so bad that you couldn"t even pull the tube (or tubes?) out with out breaking them in your hands.

['Doc]

Most of the time, a salt water bath doesn't do anything good to electronics. If it's cleaned and dried off pretty quickly, the damage may not have been enough to hurt things. But that depends on a lot of "if's". Take a look at the insides of the thing. Does it appear to be 'pristine' and 'new' looking? Or does it look like it's been 'rode hard and put up wet'? If you can, you might take it somewhere that should at least have some idea about it's condition, and ask. Not knowing it's condition, I don't think I wanna even guess if it can be fixed.
Good luck.
- 'Doc

[SILLY RABBIT]

Well it does look bad inside.I was just thinking of getting it going just becuse of it was my dads.I did get the cobra 25 that was in his truck that took a swim during IKE to work with a little luck and some battery cleaner.I am trying the same thing on this amp.I did mannage to get the tubes out. Now just takeing my time with cleaner and a small brush.We willl see if it works.If not a pant job and a place on the shelf with the rest of the stuff i got whin he passed away.Thanks again.

[rockcrusher]

good luck on getting your amp back up and working. and yes there could be some voltage stored in that amp.but it should not be if it went for a swim. as long as it has not been pluged up since.i would be sure and unload the voltage before working inside

[SILLY RABBIT]

ok finally got time to look into the amp.cleaned tha amp out dryed it out.pluged it in all tubes light up but one it looks as if i cracked it whin i put it back in.so now im looking to find a tube[rca 6jt6a].there are four of this tube and four bigger tubes with a spring on top wich i could not get the # off of .I was amased it did any thing at all.Spent a few hours with a touth brush and some batter cleaner from autozone.NOw just have to find a tube and see if its worth spending money on this amp or buy a new one.