pics of fender super reverb filter caps
just replaced the power supply filter capacitors for a friend’s ’68-ish silver-face fender super reverb, and hadn’t found any guts pics online. here are two showing the wiring that’s hidden when assembled. click to zoom.
was running behind and forgot to take pics of the new caps installed — muck cleaned off the black pads, solder shiny and new. looked nice. shown are originals, obviously.
man, did that amp sound good with new filter caps; much more improvement than i estimated. also changed the 2-prong AC cord to 3-prong, using this helpful pic/schematic. caps bought here.
[insert usual warning about electrocuting yourself when working on tube amps with charged capacitors, etc.]
BTW, after semi-thorough research, i didn’t use a variac to bring the new caps up slowly. i suspect that’s mostly dated hype applicable to parts as made decades ago.