[This post continues from Part 1 of the repair of a vintage Airline 9005 guitar amplifier] After restoration, the Airline 9005 guitar amplifier sounded good – but was subject to unduly long warm-up times and intermittent shorting out due to the unique design of the biasing arrangement of the power…
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The Airline 9005 guitar amp was sold by Montgomery Ward’s in the early 60s. I’ve seen examples with two 12″ speakers and one 12″ speaker. The original case for the amp looked super sweet. I recently got one on the bench – however, it had been re-cased into an ill-fitting,…