mesa service

[SpiderWars]

And those hubs racerx mentioned can be Walgreens or other local pharmacy/etc. It's a wonderful thing.

Curious what the total cost after shipping runs. I cheaped out and used the local guy who is really good. He changed all e-lytic caps and general tune up and even repaired the aftermarket head cab that had mounting issues...$240 on the wheel and out the door. About 2 weeks total (exactly what he estimated).

Mine ran $272 for about 1.75 hours

"Mike Bendinelli: Clean up and service- pots jacks pulls pre sockets, etc. Replace all the electrolytic caps, the 8200/16v caps on the low voltage supply did show some leakage when removed. It all cleaned up as it had not spread on the board yet. Upgraded the .1/400 caps at V5 to .1/630 volt. Tested all functions with bench reverb and ftsw set. Labor 1.75 hrs."

I was honestly expecting $350 plus another $90 for shipping so I it worked out great. I have a new headshell hopefully shipping this week.

I moved this past week and didnt get any downtime until yesterday and was able to plug in my KSR Orthos for a few minutes. I dont know if it was just due to not playing it for a week or actually being able to turn it up a bit more but it sounded so freaking good. My Mark IV is scheduled for delivery tomorrow and now that everything is kinda mellowing out at my house I'm hoping to replace the Monomyth that I sold to help with moving expenses and hopefully a new cab to go with the Mark IV.

That's very reasonable. I'm lazy and didn't want to pack it and didn't want to worry about (or pay for) shipping. I assume they use the Mesa-labeled Spragues? My guy used F&T...I doubt there is an audible difference.

I would almost swear I heard a difference between having the Reverb pan right underneath (like a head) vs. in a combo or just removed from the head. Prob my imagination but I left the reverb pan out this time.

 

[ClintN667]

Thats not the first time I've heard that about the reverb. I took mine out and never really used it. I got it back today and damn it sounds fantastic. They sent me the components they took out which I thought was odd.

 

[SpiderWars]

Returning old parts is pretty standard. I typ don't care but with old amps I want that stuff.