I have one of these to fix also. Happens to be a true '68 deluxe reverb. I see the silverface reissues now for $999 and think hmmmm... which way to go? Tinker for countless hours or start fresh. That's why I'm here. Yet I am aware this is a Solid State forum, and the fact is I'm new to electronics design, better at soldering than really figuring anything out. Did plenty of research on what goes, what mods are out there. The amp currently doesn't turn on and it may just be a fuse socket issue (believe it or not there has been a hair bobby-pin jammed in there for several years; just making contact between the metal surround and the end of the fuse). You guys are going to hate me. Found the "ClassicTone" transformers and similar DIY/replacement parts out there to gauge what kind of a mess I might be getting into, pricewise. Seems like there's probably some interest to be sparked by volunteering the fact that I was already shocked -- OK, fine, Electrocuted -- once, by this amp.. I wasn't working on it. My bandmate and I were playing, we both had on sandals in a damp basement, there was an acoustic electric strapped on him and I had a Parker P-38 plugged into this baby, which was propped up on a folding (metal) lawn chair. We finished a song and gave each other a high-five. Something coupled between strings and ground or the amp to the chair to the wetness of the ground to the cable to the guitar to the body touching the strings, and some (unlikely you'll think) we were struck by some kind of pulse (felt like lightning, and I've felt a 120V lamp socket for a fraction of a second and yes, my arm went numb then too), which seemed to emerge from our hands, striking like lightning from our hands, where they met for a split second. an amplified high five!

Yeah -- so I should fix this old amp, right, or hand it over to a professional?