I'm really not feeling up to taking my amp apart - I know there is a schematic printed inside, but does anyone off hand know what the replacement bulb part would be. I've never seen this thing lit up!
stevem Messages: 4733 Registered: June 2004 Location: NY
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two other ways to get it out would be to stuff a section of auto or fish tank vacume hose over the bulb, or super glue a broken off section of a pen or small siliver of wood to the head of the bulb.
These bulbs just unscrew out and in, and if you apply too much push in pressure on these 40 year old plastic switch bodys they can break off.
Go easy!
BC Messages: 583 Registered: March 2000 Location: Kentucky
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How do I change the bulb in a Challenger? It is a lens only as the power switch is a toggle in the back. I am certain it is obvious to everyone but me as to how to get the lens off! BC
stevem Messages: 4733 Registered: June 2004 Location: NY
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I am not 100 % sure, as I have never worked on that/those models.
They do seem to use the same square lens as the K150 and k250/350/600 metal face amps, so if the lens is sticking out from where it is incerted into the metal control panel you would just pry it with two small screw drivers like with the amps I listed.
kustomoholic Messages: 227 Registered: March 2009 Location: Tulsa,oklahoma
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The pilot fixture for the Challenger is different from the switches... Remove amp chassis from case ...remove top plate of chassis ...Pilot is inside and should be easily apparrent on bulb replacement. If is same as my Charger then there are 2 screws holding fixture.. remove screws and fixture..... exchange with a new bulb and reinstall fixture and you should be good to go without risking damage to those virtually irreplaceable lenses.
BC Messages: 583 Registered: March 2000 Location: Kentucky
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Solved it. On the Challenger you can take the two screws out of the head so it will slide forward. Slip a screwdriver behind the lens and it easily pops out. Thanks for the responses! BC
ramrod250 Messages: 32 Registered: January 2011 Location: Germantown, Wisconsin
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I got some 335s via Mouser, and struggled with removing the lamp. Got the push-button/lens out with a flat-blade screwdriver, but things are still pretty tight in there. Super-glued a stick to the bulb, but no luck.
Finally, success! I was able to slip a piece of small heat-shrink tubing over the end of the bulb, far enough that I could get it to turn and come out. Same thing with the new bulb, going back in. There's just enough adhesion to get a grip, and the tubing pulls off easily. I didn't try/need to shrink the tubing in place.
Now I have a nice, blue Power light where there wasn't one before.
Jim Haught
Creedence + Kustom: a great combination.
I use a short piece of rubber surgical tubing on the end of a wooden dowel. This is the type of tubing that Fender used for Strat pickup mounting springs in the fifties.