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Dear Mr. Supertwang,
I've taken quite a few reverb tanks apart, and here is my synopsis:
Fender has placed a sign at the U.S./Mexican border that says "Illegal
Mexican Immigrants; THIS WAY" with an arrow pointing towards their factory.
When the immigrants arrive at the factory, a Fender representative tells
them they will be granted citizenship upon one condition; they must build a
reverb tank out of a pile of reverb tank parts. Like McDonalds, they are
shown a single photograph of the finished product, and instructed to "have
at it". Once completed, they hand the finished product to one of Fender's
Quality Assurance Reps (who was hired to meet the "Equal Opportunity
Employer" standards) and they are shown the exit, freedom and a "Bush/Cheney
2004" bumper sticker.
It's my belief (and nothing more) that Fender doesn't exactly care WHERE
that tank sits, as long as it hangs from 4 springs somewhere on the inside
of the front panel. The worst instance of a tank I ever received had 2
springs unconnected (that hold the tank in a "floating" status), no foam
block under the tank and the brake screws were so tight there was NO WAY the
brake was coming off without some screwdriver adjustment.
Sometimes its a connector, sometimes its a tube socket, sometimes its a
loose wire...I would just thank heaven the thing worked again for you. The
nature of it is this: if you're going to use a Fender outboard tank, expect
it to do weird things. Expect it to pick up radio stations. And above all
else, expect it to stop working inexplicably.
Finally, I've never seen those springs be different lengths. They've
always been about 3/4 to 1 inch long when unstretched.
-Dano
-=The Nebulas=-
>From: "supertwangreverb" <>
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>Subject: [SurfGuitar101] For you reverb tank guys
>Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 04:19:31 -0000
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>If anyone remembers I was having troubles getting my reverb tank to
>work a few weeks ago. It's been working fine as of lately however,
>we recorded some tracks in the studio last week and of course when I
>got there the tank wasn't working. So we took it apart and put it
>back together again and miraculously it worked. But I did something
>odd with the springs that hold the "tank." The one on the right side
>was longer than the one on the left, and this is actually causing the
>tank to float closer to the left side of the cab than the right. So
>is that thing supposed to be like that or should the tank be centered
>in the middle of the "cab".
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