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Re: Year of manufacture of 1-18-B Kustom bass cabinet? [message #8037 is a reply to message #8036]

Mon, 15 January 2007 12:54

stevem
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Registered: June 2004
Location: NY

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Hi, your 1-18 cabinet was part of the 250 and 500 serise of amps that kustom(now owned by baldwin organ in 1971) put out. The cabinet had a driver made by the eminence speaker company and it was or, is a top of the line driver for back then.
If you ordered a 500 serise amp back then you got a k250 head with two cabinets, and the second cab had a power output section from the 250 head so you had a 250 watt RMS set up with 500 watts peak.
This is not alot of bass wattage by todays standards but you got over twice the clean head room over a K200 serise head out of the 500 set up.The best way to pin down the year of the cabs birth is to open it up, and stamped in ink on the speakers frame or magnet will be a stamping of 67 and then 3 or 4 digets, like 67-7142 or 67-142, the first diget or two being the year and the next two being the week of production of the driver, so your cabinet you have may have been made with in a month or two on either side of that 42nd week of 1971 in this example.Speakers did not sit around too long at the factory before they got stuffed into cabinets!
Enjoy!

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