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A guy I know brought over an "old amp" he wanted to sell. It turned out to be a '66 Fender Super Reverb! Long story short, it's now mine!
The only thing missing is the reverb tank and pedal. I checked ebay, but thought I'd check here too.
Anyone have an extra tank laying around?

Kevin congrats on the amp,

You can buy your original foot switch here:

http://www.ampwares.com/index.html

They also sell non-original reverb tanks.

Hoffman Amps also sells replacement reverb tanks:

http://www.hoffmanamps.com/

Here's one more source for both items:

http://www.tubetoneamps.com/productpage ... bitems.htm

EBay's the place. There's a guy in Huntington Beach, CA, who stocks these (they are still being made!) for about $20-30 each.

Thanks guys!

You are welcome Kevin,

I recently built a 2-12 extension speaker cabinet for my "Fender Twin" and both of my sons have orders in with me to build them each one as well.

As a consequence I have bought all of my Fender amplifier and speaker cabinet parts from Ampwares. They are great to deal with and delivery is super fast, even to Canada. I am not sure how they do it but they are indeed a great company.

Kevin,
I would avoid Ampwares. He's notoriously slow and hard to get a hold of so it can sometimes be real frustrating waiting for parts and wondering if they've been shipped.

Repro pedals are all over the place and real ones from that era are usually going for over $100 on Ebay. I would avoid the new Fender made repro pedals since they use a cheaper switch than the originals. I know that if you buy a repro pedal from www.tonecraftamprepair.com it will have the old-fashioned Carling switches in it. Jon at Tonecraft is a great guy and I buy almost all of my amp parts from him. He'll have tanks, too, but I don't know how his prices are on those. He's the kind of guy who tests everything he sells before it goes out the door and warranties it so you pay for his service. He'll also answer every single question you can come up with. I think the guys like Hoffman also sell the good repro pedal.

Antique Electronic Supply www.tubesandmore.com is the cheapest place I've seen for replacement Accutronics reverb tanks but you may work out even by saving on shipping if you order everything from the same place.

It's always interesting to me to see how experiences can differ.

Ooohhh! Love the Super! My buddy Mike had a '72 (I think). The sweetest sounding amp I've heard with useable stage volume.
He also had a '64 or '66 Tremolux that sounded even better but was not nearly loud enough for stage use.

You could try this fellow: John Sprung
http://www.partsisparts.net/

Hey Brian,
I actually had great luck with Ampwares the one time that I ordered from them, but I had been warned to call the order in and only order if I talked to the guy. I did, and everything went smoothly.

Unfortunately there are an awful lot of people that have had different experiences as far as speed of delivery and getting a hold of the guy. From what I've heard he's a real nice guy who is a one man operation, but he has poor follow-up so when he gets swamped with orders he gets behind and doesn't really keep the buyers updated on the progress.

It's too bad really. He has a great website and a lot of good parts.

Jeff,

My first order was placed on a weekend evening through the Ampwares website. Just over a week later a parcel of parts and a box of speaker cloth arrived at my post office. I live in Canada. Shipments from the States to our little town are notoriously slow.

I was thoroughly impressed. I did not attempt to speak to the fellow that runs the place. To be honest it did not even cross my mind to do that. But I can see your point if he is a one man operation. Especially if the item is out of stock.

I think Ampwares is one of the few places I'm aware of that stocks the Silver Tolex like RIC used on their amps and vintage cases...

AES has a summer sale now.

I still have my Super Twin w/D120's...

careful of NOS tanks as the spring may be a sagging. And that's not due to the rectifier tube!

Thanks everyone. I'm thinking of trying to find original equipment, because I'll probably have to turn this one around to help buy new windows for our house.

Kevin

Trying to find original stuff will make it a bit harder and raise the prices a lot. You can definitely find the parts you'll need on Ebay over the course of two or three weeks.

I doubt that you'll ever recover the cost of an original blackface footswitch when selling the amp so it may be best to just sell it without the switch. If the buyer isn't a collector they won't care and you still may not recover the $50 of a repro.

I'm not sure if reverb tanks are date coded or not. 1960s reverb tanks show up on the 'bay pretty regularly but it may be harder to find the correct year. Do you have the Tolex bag that the tank came in and the cables? Tonecraft in the link above will make you some repro braided cables that will match originals at a very reasonable rate. I don't think Jon charges much more than double what a pair of the cheap rubber coated cables cost.

You might also try www.coldspringselectricalworks.com They have a lot of original parts but they're expensive.

Good luck

Thanks Jeff!

No bag or cables. After talking to a couple guys, I think I'll skip the pedal, and just look for the tank, bag, and cables.

Thanks again to everyone!
Kevin