When I was in Junior High, two of the kids in my neighborhood that I played in a makeshift back-porch band with got NEW Sears Twin Twelve amps, within about a month of each other. $189.95 new. So we went from Fender tweed Champs to this in one swoop. Two 6L6 power tubes so
loud as all get out, our first brush with (our own) reverb, so we didn't think it was bad, although obviously when you cranked it up or hit the top of the amp you got a snowstorm (LOL). I remember the reverb tanks being a aluminum tube with a couple pivot points on it, but perhaps there were Danelectro mods as it aged. "Ours" (bought just before the Twin Twelve went to the solid state Model 1464) were probably late in the line.
From what I remember reading, these amps are strictly point-to-point wired, and not in a good (Fender) way. Maybe that is why when they fail, they FAIL! Miserable to trouble-shoot.
BTW, the Twin Twelve did not have two output transformers...the big one is the power transformer, the smaller chassis mounted one to the left is the output transformer...still big though, compared to Fenders. The LARGE Silvertone 6-10" amp with four 6L6's may well have had two output transformers, as it was almost wired as a two-channel stereo amp...but not
The amps did indeed come with only two-wire power cords (not polarized), if it buzzed you flipped the "death switch" on the front panel and then it was quiet...the three switches had little red plastic caps on them, thats probably what saved our lives...sometimes...nothing like getting a shock from an Electro-Voice 664 straight into your braces
@Default , Steve where are you, jump in and bail me out here!