Tourmaster Reverb problem

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Just got a new Tourmaster 4100 and it arrived with some flaws. The bottom part of the head seems crooked with some kind of twist because the head rocks back and forth from the corners, and one foot is always on the air.

Also the reverb doesn't work. I opened the back of the head to see if the reverb cables were unplugged but they were fine. Any ideas on what this could be? Maybe biasing?

I'm dissapointed. I waited 8 days to get this head and it didn't meet expectations. Ill probably be returning it and getting a Renegade head.
 
reverb tube ?

are the reverb tank cables plugged in, and plugged in properly?

mine quit, and i tried everything, opened the head and one of the clips were off the post coming from the Reverb transformer itself (inside the head).
 
Maybe its the reverb tube. Ill take a look at everything again.

The cables are fine on the top. Should I take out the chasis and take a look inside?
 
that depends on your experience poking around inside of tube amps. though relatively easy to trace the wires from the Reverb Driver Transformer (the smallest transformer) to the plugs inside the amp, you should properly drain your capacitors before any work inside the amp is done, or, in the bare minimum, as i was told by egnater service, you can hard drain your caps on this amp (not sure how complete it is though as i got a bit of a tingle leaning my arm on the amp and working inside, while working on my amp, but nothing major after having done this hard drain).

to hard drain your caps, make sure your power and standby are in the off and standby positions each:
1.unplug the amp from the wall
2. with the amp unplugged, turn the power switch on.
3. turn the standby switch from standby to play
4. turn the power switch off.
5. leave it like this for 5 minutes in the least. i left mine overnight, about 12 hours.
this should drain your caps to a safe degree. SHOULD. you should just drain them the right way though.

the reverb driver transformer has 4 wires coming out of it and going inside the amp chassis. red and blue and green and black. red and blue (as a pair) go inside to 2 little small posts (pretty close to each other if i recall correctly) and should be soldered to each post. green and black go inside (as a pair) and have those clip type jacks on the end of each wire that slide on a spade post. make sure they're each on the spade they lead to. if not, message me and i will send you a pic where they should be. if one or both are off, or loose, i strongly recommend you solder them on so they can't wiggle loose again, especially if you have the combo amp.

hit me up if you need more help.
 
the cables from the reverb tank to the head (the rca type cables) should each go to their respective (red and white) points. make sure they aint switched. im sorry, i THINK they're red and white....whichever, they're marked clearly, make sure they correspond to each input and output.
 
Sweet, thanks! That's some great info. The RCA type cables are all the way in and in the right position. I it must be in the chassis. I'll Take a look.
 
One of the "pitfalls" of spring reverbs is that the spring pan itself is somewhat delicate. Most often a dead reverb is caused by one of the fine wires inside the pan breaking, especially during rough handling/shipping.
 
+1

did you take the pan out of the bag and inspect all of it?

mine was good...i even swapped it out and tried a new one i bought, and it still didn't work. only after that did i open my amp ( i think my flowchart was : swap the reverb tube, check the wires, check the pan, check inside).
 
So I decided to just return it and not mess with it. Because it was the last one, I will be getting a Renegade head. Which also blew me away when I tried it at GC.
 
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