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I found the fuses locally in Kalamazoo (!) at a place called Ken's Electronics. It's kind of like the best Radio Shack from the 70's. He's got a website: http://www.kenselectronics.com/index.html

No, I haven't gotten it fixed. I seemed to run into a dead end and got frustrated. I'm in Michigan, so I had hoped to take it to Egnater, but I saw on their site that they're too busy to work on stuff. If anyone knows any good repair guys who know what to do with these crazy amps, I'd like to...

I had been using the KT88s for about a month without incident. Now it is actually producing some sound, although very very quiet. If I almost max out everything I can hear it, but that is of course inviting disaster. I'm going to try putting in some 6L6s and see what happens.

I had read your post about your master volume technique, so I ran the amp into my HotPlate attenuator and tried it a couple times, but it didn't work. I was reluctant to use that technique anyway.

I have a RM100 that would power up, with fan running and lights on, but the power tubes (KT88) didn't glow (and no sound when taken out of standby to play). No tube failure lights were on and I checked all four tube fuses and the main AC fuse, all OK. I pulled the chassis and found a blown...