Airline 9001B

[Jeff]

Does anyone have the specs on an Airline/Montgomery Wards 9001 B?
this one is for sale up the road a ways http://seattle.craigslist.org/oly/msg/3524723768.html

I have a little Silvertone 1471 & use it regularly, my assumption is the Airline 9001b is similar.

 

[Default]

Jeff, be aware that this amp runs straight from the wall voltage. It will need an isolation transformer to be safe. Otoh, tubes are cheap and plentiful and the output is about 3 watts.

 

[Default]

http://www.harmonica-amplifier-microphone.com/
Description at that site.

 

[Jeff]

Thank you Steve.

I didn't think things got much more basic than my 1471, but this Airline is off the charts basic, 3 toobs?, 1 input off/on & volume, chart says 1 watt.

$75 firm for an inop unit might not be such a good deal

 

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And plugs directly into the wall with nothing between you and 120 volts except a fifty year old .047 mfd cap.

 

[Bill Ashton]

Had exactly that same amp several years ago. It was mediocre at best, certainly not a Fender Champ. In his socks only in the basement, it bit my son good enough that he will never again wear only socks when playing electric guitar.

A ten foot pole is not long enough to push that amp away. Get a lineman's hot-stick!

(PS: said outlets are now protected by GFI's)

 

[kitniyatran]

I used to have an Airline that was quite nice. Based on that site, it may have been an 8502. Not this one.

 

[Bill Ashton]

That one you had should have been much more tweed Champ or Harvard-like I think. Steve, chime in here...

How you tell about the "All-American-Five" amps, is that if the first numbers in the tube types add up to about 100 (more or less), there is no power transformer...the remaining voltage from the wall is "dropped" by a resistor; I will go out on a limb here and say that because the 8502 has all "6" tube types it would have a power transformer...the 6X5 is the rectifier I think...believe a number of Sears amps used those.

35W4, 50C5 and a 12AU6 add up to bad ju-ju :shock:

 

[Default]

That's right< Bill. The first number is always the filament voltage.