[RomanS]

I'm currently starting a second band project - just found a bass player, unfortunately, he doesn't own a good bass-amp (used to play throught the PA all the time); so, I remembered that I still had my old Peavey Combo 300 from my punk-rock bass playing days...

I haven't really been playing bass in a band situation since the late 1990s, so I didn't have any use for that amp; so, when I moved into a new apartment with my girlfriend a couple of years ago, I stored it in the basement of our apartment building. This combo amp weights at least 80 to 90 pounds (definitely more than a Fender Twin!), and only has a single small handle on top, and I didn't really feel like lugging it up three flights of stairs after moving tons of other stuff; besides, it would have been taking up too much room, anyway, so down to the basement it went.
Unfortunatley, over the next months we found out that this basement is really humid... Well, since it was too late, anyway, we had all kinds of junk stored there, and I was too lazy, I still left that amp in there...

...until today. Decided to give it a try, lugged it up to our apartment (my back still hurts). Plenty of mould growing on the back and top, dust & spider-webs everywhere, Tolex coming off along the seams, jacks and screws rusty, blooming corrosion on the edges of the aluminium chassis - frankly, I didn't expect too much when I saw the sorry state it was in.
But I took it apart, cleaned it, vacuumed out the dust & spider-webs, tried to rub off most of the rust and corrosion with bike cleaning fluid, and let it air out & dry for a couple of hours.
Finally plugged in my old MIJ P Bass and turned it on...


...and it worked like I had just got it new from the store! No noise, no dirtortion, not even a single scratchy pot! Everything perfect! Loud as ever. Unbelievable! Still has the same not-too-refined, yet cutting-through rock bass sound it always had.

There's nothing like Peavey quality!

OK, still need to glue on the Tolex where it has come off, and I'm defintely putting some extra handles on there so that it can be carried by two people, maybe some casters, too; but that thing is gigable as it is right now, already!