What a mess!!!

[syndromet]

http://cgi.ebay.com/NO-NAME-VINTAGE-MONO-TUBE-AMP-AMPLIFIER_W0QQitemZ230000229973QQcategoryZ73371QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[BDuguay]

Ugh!
I'm borderline OCD as it is when it comes to organization and tidiness. Looking at that picture actually made me slightly nauseous
B.

[twabelljr]

Point to point wiring!!!!!

[wampcat1]

Can you imagine the cost if someone actually bought this and planned to take it to their repair tech?!

http://i21.ebayimg.com/02/i/07/1a/e3/08_3.JPG

[JimRayden]

I believe people buy this kind of stuff mainly for the iron. They get a good chassis, transformers and tube sockets. Rip out the guts, wire a neat looking board and you've got a Fender Deluxe head. It's the cheapest way I know of building tube amps.

Although I'd sure like to see the impression on the tech's face who would have to repair this thing.

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Jimbo

[petemoore]

  Oh My...all locked in tight...none for me, thank you VM

[JimRayden]

At a closer glimpse, it doesn't look that horrible at all. The wires are kept as short as possible and some are twisted for hum reducement.

Looks like a damn good point-to-point example... even more, an etalon of PTP-wiring.

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Jimbo

[Connoisseur of Distortion]

you buy it, recap it, decide its tubes, replace poor wiring, check for floated resistors, and everything else, then. 

that thing made me feel dizzy...

[redeffect]

Good luck; and have fun with it!

[markm]

 

[birt]

i love amps like that! it doesn't look that bad. if you can't figure it out or it needs hard to find tubes you just replace the PTP wiring with a fender or marshall (or whatever) board. The housing looks great if you tidy it up a bit.
here's an 18 watt mess i made (needs new transformers tough, it never workde because of those): http://sic.fotopic.net/p15788670.html
a small experiment: http://sic.fotopic.net/p18752356.html
a philips stereo amp i have: http://users.pandora.be/vandijckheffen/bert/DSC04618.jpg (the manual even includes a lay-out, with all the wires as they are in reality)
and i've got 2 of these baby's: http://ampex.hughescatalog.com/620/index.html (6V6 PP, click next to see inside pics)