50's Tube Amp here...Fender..um, no...

[Jerry2013]

Well, it is. Wollensak ..Ta-da!
Ive had this in storage for 30 years. Hooked it up and it made all kinds of aweful noise. Doubt seriously if the Recorder works.
Theres one just like it, broken on ebay for 375.00 . The guys off his rocker.
This could be a cool unit, insofar as it has a preamp out and a speaker out. Don't tell me these things have a death cap too?
My guess is its a bear to get into the guts of the thing, which are probably like a rats nest. I'm posting a link ot a quick clip I did with it.;


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYn8NluPqtU


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[Phil_S]

I don't think I saw a model number, which is a helpful thing to post. Is this it?
http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/wollensak_t1500t_150.html

[Jerry2013]

I don't think I saw a model number, which is a helpful thing to post. Is this it?
http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/wollensak_t1500t_150.html

Yes, thats it. Model T 1500 . Thanks. I think it would be worth recapping for the preamp out. Might be a bad litt guitar pre-amp with a tweak or two?
The thing would be if you can stop the tape section from turning on somehow, and just get the preamp/amp alone.

[Cliff Schecht]

I always warn people who ask me about old tube equipment that the worst thing you can do with it is turn it on before having it looked at. Ignoring the fact that the ecaps are usually dead and so things won't work anyways, you also stand the risk of being electrocuted if the power supply fails. The wiring is usually shot in the power cords (ignoring that they are usually wired in the old school way with a death cap) and old leaky ecaps love to fail, occasionally catastrophically. I hope you at least fired it up with a limiter or used a variac to bring it up slowly..

[BTF]

If you can get it running, it might make a cool Ritchie Blackmore-type preamp.

[Structo]

My first guitar amp was a Panasonic cassette tape recorder I bought new with paper route money.
I think it was around 1966 or 1967.
It was one of the first cassette tape recorders I saw.

It had a microphone input that I connected to a cheap electric guitar.
I finally blew it up by getting too hot of a signal at the input.

I also put a switch on the erase head, so I could do sound on sound.

It sounded like crap.

[mark enger]

Ive a had a few of those it should have a mullard ez80 12ax7 and a el84 plus a bugleboy ef86, and some bumblebee caps, its got a cool shock mount 9 pin socket, and they sound pretty dam good as a guitar amp a bigger ot and it would be great here'e a pix of the chassis ive been hanging on to i alway grab them when i see they mark