70's AIMS VTG-105 | Repair & Demo | PART 2
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Part 2/2: Watch me repair and test this super funky AIMS amp!
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Having owned that exact same model of amp when you finally fired that thing up and I heard that really glassy tone. It was like a trip down memory lane. I actually owned a music store in Yuma Arizona where we sold those Aims amps and they were pretty reliable. The bass version with the 215 cabinet was just a fabulous amp. I wish I still had one. I also toured the factory in Phoenix Arizona a couple times and got to meet the tech there who was a really nice guy.
😍😍😍 you had me singing Chattahoochee!! Awesome stuff!!🥰🥰🥰
Realistic, in action, thought, determined. Waste no time in wasting time. Start right, finish right. Looking ahead and not to be surprised. Had an Electronics store, TV's Kloss Novabeams, VCR's, Sat. systems (not a chair) and a bookstore & gifts for 8 years once. That was in the way-back machine.
The reverb on that sounds so good!
I started repairing blown solid state amps bought from eBay as a hobby, with very little knowledge I've managed to successfully trace and repair all faults on 3 amps, it's so satisfying, I'd love to have a go with an old vintage valve amp, but they are extremely rare and hard to get over here, very expensive and almost impossible to get parts, way too expensive for an amateur hobbyist, solid state valve parts are cheap and easy to come by, just tracing the faults is where it can be challenging without much knowledge or experience, but I love a challenge it's fun.
I love watching your videos and your thorough approach to explaining everything.
Nice work Colleen! It's such a pleasure to watch an expert practicing their craft. Always enjoy your videos and it's so nice that you take the time to explain everything you are doing along the way. Keep it up.
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I love to watch you work on older point to point wired equipment. Your soldering and component replacements are neat and tidy. Love it. I wish you could work on my stuff....keep up your good work!
Consistently replacing electrolytic capacitors with the value side in a viewable position is a sign of true professional
repair work. I wish more people would do this. The old power cord plug looked like part of a heavy duty extension cord.
Nice work except using the wrong Deoxit on the pots which I use to do myself. Otherwise great finish Colleen.
Very Nice Job, I have never seen one of those before! Never too old to learn!
Those control knobs are as cool as can be.
Colleen im impressed once again. For you have shown your most excellent repair skills on an amp ive never heard of, but your Allen Jackson riff im very familiar with. Love from sunny south Florida ❤🌞
Another great vid. Informative and enjoyable as always. Great seeing all these old classics given a new life.
What a beautiful amp. I didn’t know that brand before. Such a clean design, point-to-point wiring, and love those toggle switches. And that technical dexterity. So cool, calm, professional. 💪💪
Hey, glad to see you're still at it. I hope you have been too busy working on amps to post videos. That's a strange one you've got there. I have never seen one of those, but from the looks of it, it's very well built. Sounds good too.
Our mutual friend just brought me a 1940's era
Stella to bring back to life. It needs a lot of work. Cracks in the top neck angle way off, and he wants to put a truss rod in it. I'd love to do the job because it's a big challenge, but Stellas can be money pits, unless you have one that belonged to Robert Johnson.
If he's thinking of it as a keeper, it's OK, but it's nearly impossible to get your money back out of one of you do much more than put new strings on it. We're gonna have to talk about it before I get under way with this beast.
Nice to see you back, you do great work!
Hats off and respect.
How do you avoid creating ground loops by changing the grounding scheme?
Apologies if my question is naive….I’m getting old-errrrr! but new to studying how to to basic service.
Lovely amp and restoration - great work! Mr Carlson and Uncle Doug would be proud :)
Collen,, 1st I'd like to say that I admire your craftsmanship and attention to detail.You a blessing to the field of electronic repair.
The way you explain what you do even someone with the smallest amount of experience can accomplish repairs that they didn't think they could ever do.
I admire your work and I wish that someday. I would have to change to come to your shop and she you do what you do in person. I have been a serious guitarist since 1964. And I have had more amplifiers than I can even remember. But I know this I wish I had known about you years ago so I could have had you work on my amplifiers . Thank you For doing these videos and showing the world that and in a field that has been dominated many years ago by men that a woman can do just as good and even better . i'm proud of you.
Ed
I was waiting for part two 👍 and I see a Tube Amp Doctor Bias Master. I buy my tubes there ☺️. Many greetings from Germany 👋
It’s funny I had never heard of these amps until your first video, and then almost immediately one popped up for sale locally. If I wasn’t such a Traynor freak I might have grabbed it!
Smart pretty does excellent work and plays very well 😎👍
I'm curious why you take the convenience socket out of the circuit? I would have thought that it's pretty handy for powering pedals or wireless or a mixer or something.
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Yeah, I always use mine, it’s annoying that new amps don’t have them
Mr. Carlson move over there's a new repair chick in town! 🥳 A very enjoyable repair video. 🥰 Thanks loads!
I couldn't tell for sure from the brief shots of you installing the new power cord what tool you were using (looked liked regular pliers), but there is a specialized tool for installing the strain relief into the chassis.
Good work, Colleen!! 😎👌
It's always a pleasure watching you work. Please keep the great videos coming.
Nice job on that ol beaut! What an interesting amp that is. Great little demo at the end too. Thanks for doing these!
Your using the WRONG DeoxIT on the POTs! It should be *DeoxIT Fader F5* You'll end up with noisy POTs within a year.
NIce one Colleen. Dig that amp. What a beast.
Great work. Do you mostly work on vintage amps, or do you do repairs on any modern amps as well?
Can you talk about what solder you use and where you buy the electronic components.
Came here from cat video producer Louis and wow you actually repair things!
wonderful work and done really well. 😊🎸
I bought one of these for next to nothing a couple months ago! I still need to replace a lot of coupling caps and I might do the filter caps even though they’ve been replaced at some point. It still has a lot of the old porcelain cylinder resistors. Replaced the power cord like you did and got rid of the death cap. Mine only had one screen grid resistor and it was in series between the two power tubes so I put a 1k 5w on each screen. Did you work on the tremolo circuit at all? Mine could be deeper. I think the little neon bulb could stand to be replaced and I was surprised to find such high B+ driving that part of the circuit. Anyway these are awesome amps, I really dig mine and it’s been a fun project to tinker with.
Itd be cool if you had a chance to repair a quad reverb. Just got one and have no idea what I am doing to recap it
Sounds like new! Nice job!
I love that blue board! :)
Hi, can you tell me what the best sources for components are?
I had an idea for an amp line.
Back in 2001, I was going to start an amp company out of my basement. An 18-watt clone type amp and bigger watt amps.
It seemed right at that time that everyone and their brother had the same idea.
It was going to be called Circus amps.
The 18 watt was to be called 'The Juggler'
The 30 watt was going to be called 'The Lion Tamer'
The 50 watt.......'The Ring Master'
And the 100 watt.....'The Big Top'.
Oh well.
Back about 1979, I was trying to figure out how to make an extension ladder smaller, by folding.
I just couldn't wrap my pathetic head around it.
Then a couple years later, I discovered some German painter had licensed his idea, to Hal Wing, who
then started the Little Giant Ladder Co, all before I had my first thought and began making money hand over fist. Life Sucks! 🙄✌🖖
I Wait Long time more 1 mounth for this but result are fantastic , sound super very good work , many thanks
Bonus points for Chattahoochee 😊
Always relaxing hearing your voice. Reassuring hearing your confidence in what is going on with the equipment and why you make which repairs. BTW, you could be a hand model! Nice getting to see you play. Please incorporate a little playing in all your vids. You're too pretty to hide. Maybe do something quirky like a Pignose amp when you can (tip of the hat to Terry Kath). Also, if you come across a Peavey Mace 100 watt do it in honor of Gary Rossington. Thx,
Awesome work. I love your repair work.🙂
Another great video, well done. Blessings.
I have an AIMS Eclipsor and made some of the very same changes. Mine has a 5 ohm output and a speaker output with unknown impedance. I think 5 Ohms was for a 6 speaker cab wired 3S 2P. That cab sounds great. Thanks for the info. I may be needing some 6550s. I am still using the GE 6550A tubes that came with it. I'll hit up your tube source if need be. Thanks again.
It looked like in your Part 1 video @7:13 all the way to @8:25 the speaker out cord was pulled tight like maybe off camera it was hung on something and the amplifier got pushed back a bit and pulled the cord taut. That would explain the noise/big hum when you took it off standby because the cord was likely grounded out inside the jack.
Maybe? Just a thought.
Keep up the fantastic work.
Sincerely.
oh yeah i missed part 1 somehow. be back
I hope u keep and scrap that wire. That’s how I bought my jazzmaster😊. Scrap copper and old aluminum bicycle parts😂
It’s ready to rock! Thanks for sharing 👍🤘
Watch out…that country guitar pickin can get you in trouble. Excellent repair on a well made amplifier.
Uncle Doug and Fazio - what could be better viewing on RUclips?
Buzzy Hum, great name for a band.
this is so random but if you see this and have the time to reply… I'd love to know where you got your green work lamp. anyway thanks for the awesome vids as always :)
Great job!
Complimenti. Un saluto dall'Italia
Your smile at the end says everything. I'll bet that gets loud as hell.
The amp sounds 'Wicked'!..... Way down yonder on the Chattahootchie!.....
Hello, what is your favorite amplifier? Fender, Vox , Marshall ect....? thanks
Nice riff there at the end. Amp sounds nice!
Another great amp repair video !!
Such a pleasure to see a job done right. Your biggest fan paul and jackie
2 things - 1) An exposed reverb tank??? Did the designers of this amp NOT know how much dust would accumulate in there?
and 2) Lovin that specialized AC power cord grommet extraction/insertion tool. I always struggle with those things. Great job.
Always cut leads with TWO HANDS!
FOD KILLS AMPS, not just Airplanes and Passengers!
👍👍👍 perfecto ,buen trabajo
Anyone hear the Crow at 2.38 mins? Cool sound man! Beats the shit out of the normal youtube background music
I watch your videos just to hear your beautiful voice! It gives me a sense of tranquility and peace. You are beautiful! Congratulations
I’m from Phoenix and never heard of this amp manufacturer.
Aims guitars and amps were made in Japan in the '70s and marketed by Randall. Never played through an Aims amp but I did have an Aims Telecaster copy. Very well built and affordable. Wish I still had it.
I love your videos!!
I also wanted to say you're a pretty darn good guitarist as well
Ed
Just amazing work, Bless you for sharing your wisdom with us:)
The Deoxit part was such good ASMR lol
James Burton used one of those with Elvis. If you watch the live from Hawaii concert, you can see it on stage.
Love the big silver knobs on that amp. Respect on the tech work. Cheers!
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Addicted to Colleen's videos. That's it.
I wish you were my neighbor instead of the kid who plays the trumpet all afternoon.
Eine sehr schöne Reparatur, die mechanische Hallspirale sollte dann auch wieder funktionieren, schön das der alte Verstärker wieder funktioniert. 👍
I watched this vid wearing my excellent Fazio Electric hat ... Thx for a good posting ...
Thanks for the reference for vintage stereo repair!
any new vids coming soon? going bit mental waiting for new one ... :)
All the best 🇨🇦
Love it!
🙌🙌🇧🇷🇧🇷
Where’d you source those long Spragues?
Молодец какая 👍👍👍
My niece said, "That ones A honker!"
We enjoy watching you.
I have recently watched several of your videos, and they are FANTASTIC! I hope you release more soon. Love your work!!!!❤💚💙💜
Cool amp!
It's best not to use a transformer mounting bolt for your power cord earth-ground because the amount of shock and vibration that the transformers are subject to during transport typically means that those bolts and nuts will work loose first, even if they have star washers on them.
Agreed. It's best to use a dedicated screw for grounding the amp.
@@KeritechElectronics , in the case of this particular amp, you can't make a reliable solder joint to an aluminum chassis, and so if there isn't a suitable bolt nearby that can be used for an earth ground, it might be necessary to drill a hole and install one. I generally don't like drilling holes in vintage amplifiers, but this amp is nowhere near as collectible as a Fender, Vox or Marshall from that time period, and so in this case for the purposes of safety I think I would make it exception. The other thing to keep in mind is that aluminum chassis are soft, flexible and compressible, and so the transformer mounting bolts and hardware are even more likely to work themselves loose than they would be if it was a steel chassis.
Hey I'm afraid not, get it a frayed knot. That's a joke. Good job.
A recap of the recap...if you will.
Good stuff
You are so RAD!!!
keep on picking and stuff \m/
Good job.
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Yayy.. new video.. ! and interesting too! thx
Sweet, thanks for sharing.
colleen, your such a fox 😃
I hope you make more videos