Final Reassembly
Time to put it all back together!
First, we added two support strips for the reverb pan, to lift it a bit off of the cab floor, and mounted it with a screw at each end.
Mounting the reverb pan
Below you can see that we had converted the original cable, which had two somewhat flimsy phono plugs, to more robust TS mono phone plugs. The amp was converted to two phone jacks to accept this cable (we also replaced the two phono jacks on the original reverb / tremolo foot switch to a single TRS phone plug, and the two phono foot switch jacks on the head to a single stereo TRS style phone jack - this is much more robust). We had had problems in the past with these phono type reverb cables becoming loose, and this mod has worked well.
Mounting the reverb pan
We got a nice set of 4 used Celestion 10" 16 ohm Vintage 10 speakers on eBay that are rated at 60 watts each, and have mounted them in the cut down speaker cab. They bolted right on to the original baffle with the original hardware.
Speakers mounted - back
Speakers mounted - front
We were also able to use the original wiring harness from the original 6 10" Fender speakers to wire these up. Since these were 16 ohm speakers, we wired them all in parallel to give us a 4 ohm cab.
Speakers wired with original harness
Once the speakers were wired up, we installed the two original back panels. As you can see, we have a fixed speaker wire that is long enough to reach the head, as opposed to mounting a jack on one of the panels.
Original back panels mounted
The last step was to mount the chassis back into the head cab, where it originally came from. It seemed to feel right at home! Not shown here is the back panel for the head cab.
Chassis mounted
And here she is, back in action! We did end up finding another vintage Fender logo on eBay that matches the original that is on the head cab. This logo and the 4 speakers were all we had to purchase for this project, and the results are well worth it!
Back together!