I know this is far from ideal but wondering if there's any good way of storing a combo amp in the garage without ruining it? My guitar room has now been turned into a nursery so currently the amp is living in the dining room which according to the wife isn't a long term solution (despite me being allowed to have the guitar on a hanger as it "looks nice")
It's not insulated so I imagine it'll get all the extremes. It's brick wall with single glazed windows. Doesn't seem to have any damp or mold. Have a lot of space in the garage so wondered if I could build some kind of insulated cupboard for it? Alternatively the more expensive option would be a live-in flight case - would that work?
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If you don't need to get at it often, seal it up in a plastic bag with tape to make it airtight - do that in the house so you're not sealing in damp air.
If you do need to get at it regularly, a full flightcase is a good option - in the winter, run some tape around the joint to make doubly sure.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
If you have power in the garage plug the amp into a time switch so that it comes on for 20 mins or so every day or if you get a digital timer, once a week.
Or indeed, seal in plastic.
Dave.
This is why car collectors seal their cars in huge plastic bags, and why big plane scrap yards are usually in a hot dry place like Arizona: https://www.axiomimages.com/aerial-stock-footage/view/AF0001_000865
I did once work on a bass combo - one with a port at the bottom - which mice had got into and chewed not only the speaker cone, but some of the wiring on the power transformer too!
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Anyway I've managed to shuffle a load of stuff round to avoid the amp going in the garage or loft so I'm sorted for the time being.
Ha! When I was a snot nosed apprentice there were "console" TVs. A 12" CRT, B&W of course, atop a square box and in the bottom a decent, for the day, 8 or 10" speaker. One came in for "very weak sound" and , yes, you guessed it, mice had completely eaten away the cone leaving only the coil and dust cap. Most of the cone was in a pile as a nest in the bottom of the cab!
They did not do that to table top TVs I guess because they could not get in and in any case would be close to the 10.125kHz line whistle which was quite audible to humans ten feet away. Must have been bloody deafening to a mouse!
BTW IC earwigs are insulators! I had a Hoover fan heater at same place, rotary switch, contacts like old car breaker points. Anyhoos an earwig had crawled between the contacts and stopped it working. We could not work out how it got in because the switch was two moulded halves of plastic hollow riveted together. We concluded it must have got in at the switch factory during assembly.
It was of course dead! But not "crisped" or black despite holding back 240 volts.
Dave.