Selenium bias supply diode replacement?

[Leonc]

I'm just starting a one-off Fender Super 6G4-A build project. I assume I'm okay using a 1N4007 in place of the selenium diode, yes?

[Patrick620]

Should be. Thats what I have always done and never had any problems. I always check the voltages before and after just to make sure all is good.

[phsyconoodler]

No worries,it's just for the bias supply.A 1n4007 will handle it easily.

[Leonc]

That's what I figured. Thanks gentlemen.

[Jerry Glass]

Leon...if your amp has a dandruff problem, I'd definitely stick with the selenium diode!

[Leonc]

Jerry - do you have any idea how many unemployed comedians are out there, suffering?

[LZ_69]

Jerry - do you have any idea how many unemployed comedians are out there, suffering?

Who cares about the comedians suffering, how about the audience that has to listen to jokes like that...

[Jerry Glass]

Jerry - do you have any idea how many unemployed comedians are out there, suffering?

Leon, there are 417 unemployed comedians out there last time I checked.

Who cares about the comedians suffering, how about the audience that has to listen to jokes like that...

It's all in the delivery. And yes...you may borrow it.

[soldersucker]

Where would you find a Selenium diode today?I've replaced them with IN4007's in my 50's Tweeds for giggles and safety.

[gtrnstuff]

Where would you find a Selenium diode today?I've replaced them with IN4007's in my 50's Tweeds for giggles and safety.

I've got a working one I could pull from a 1960 5F6-A I'd be willing to sell :)
I disconnected it and used one lug as a terminal point to mount one leg of a 1N4007.

[trobbins]

I don't think anyone is manufacturing them nowadays (unlike germanium devices), so NOS or scavange from old equipment. However, selenium devices have a few intrinsic types of poor performance when compared to Si diodes, and given there is no audible disadvantage in changing to Si diodes, then it would be a retrograde step.