Need bit of guidance on a Beltone AP12 Amplifier

[devilsindetails]

Got this little Beltone AP12 Amplifier single-ended

6X4 Rectifier
6AQ5 output
3X 6AV6 pre-amp/tremolo

Just started to nose around around the chassis and noticed (see orange circled area in pic) that a wire on V3 (6AV6) Pin 1 is just hanging loose there...where's it supposed to go?

Not much info on these Beltone/Teisco amps, but I did find this schematic on the web....

Thanks...Leo

I will post some other pics here of the cahssis etc as I realize there is not a lot of info etc on the web and every little bit potentially helps someone else down the road

[David Root]

I just sold one of these about two months ago! Otherwise I could get a quick answer. AP14 w/10" speaker.

Can't you tell where the other end of the hanging wire is? That would help. Can't tell which is V3 from the schem. Does the amp work?

[Phil_S]

It is the input to the grid on that tube. I'd look at the previous 6AV6 to see if there is a cap coming off the the plate that needs a place to go to.

[devilsindetails]

No that's the problem...there's no other looose hanging wire to trace it back to...the schematic is equally confusing to me....

The pinout of 6AV6 says that pin 1 should be Triode Grid.

I am not getting any sound out of the amp and suspect it has to do with the missing connection off of Pin 1 of the first 6AV6...

Still feeling my way around in the dark reading schematics and applying what I see visually to schematics....must be a left-brain right-brain thing...

[devilsindetails]

Some more pics of the chassis for general and future reference and info.

[M Fowler]

It's a white wire going up to the tone stack, I can look at mine tomorrow.
Photo is from my files but I can remove the back cover tomorrow and look.

Mark

[M Fowler]

The wire goes from pin 1 to wiper of tone control.

[devilsindetails]

THanks MF....will giver 'er a shot....

[M Fowler]

Did you get this amp working?

[devilsindetails]

Nope...still poking away at this amp..keep getting distracted by other amps...