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Something's cooking in my Kustom Kitchen... [message #25469]

Wed, 24 August 2016 18:50

RevDoc
Messages: 7
Registered: August 2016
Location: Eastern Tennessee

Junior Member

(chant away: one of us...one of us...)

I found a sweet deal on my first Kustom, a k150-1 with a 2/12 cab, in remarkably good shape considering the thing is almost as old as me.
Found the source for replacing the bulbs right here on this board along with everything else I wanted to know about it. So thank you, thank you!

I'm naturally curious about its manufacture, can anyone date it for me?
K-150-1 serial 97888
Cab- S- 50966

Amp was clean as a whistle inside with only a single human hair and a tiny spiderweb near the input jacks, and as I'd read about the interesting things one sometimes finds in these cabs, I just had to open it up too.
Sure enough, a pink plastic Easter egg protecting a half-gnawed milk chocolate football awaited someone willing to take out all those damn screws.

I've been having a great time disturbing my neighbors with low frequencies for the past month, and made things more disturbing when I added a SWR 15 to fill out the bottom. (heh...)

I've been thinking about going bi-amp by picking up another head and wiring my P-bass for stereo. Could be fun.

Then last night, bad things began to happen, got a lot of distortion in 3 inputs, with a noticeable loss in volume. The head seemed a bit warmer than usual, and that awful electrical odor was accompanied by the lights starting to dim with each note played. I shut it down, and powered it up this morning to find it working just fine.

Any clue as to what's cooking in there?
Found a local amp tech, but at 75. per hour bench time, it could cost more than I paid for it. although the cab alone was worth what paid for the set.

So I'm not ready to give up on the little guy just yet, but I have no idea what kind of issue I'm dealing with.
Knowledgable opinions would be appreciated.

So, greetings Kustomarians! I'm pleased to be among you.
(now somebody show me the secret handshake...)

RD

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