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The Fender factory bodge is ridiculous on a production amp. Given how many of them they’re making, surely it would be cheaper as well as better to redesign the board properly, once...
Maybe you should licence yours to them .
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The “Nocaster” guitar only exists because Leo Fender was too mean to waste the existing (i.e. already paid for) Broadcaster headstock decals.
Similarly, the contemporary company persists with its existing inventory of amplifier PCBs.
The problem if you going to use a single sided board as in the Blues Junior is that the ribbon cable that connects the left-hand EL84 to the main PCB is laid out with the cathode connection on the right hand side, so the PCB trace has to pass through the pins on the right hand side of the valve socket.
If the cathode connection was on the left hand side of the ribbon cable (as it is on the other EL84) then you could avoid running the PCB trace across the valve.
However this would require that the main PCB is modified too.
Having said that, Fender have already modified the main PCB once, so they could have sorted the valve PCB out at the same time.
Alternatively they could have used a double-sided board for the valve PCB. This would have cost a bit more, but can't have been that expensive.
Incidentally Fender have sorted out the oscillation in the MK IV Blues Junior by increasing the value of the snubber cap in the phase inverter to 470 pF. We use 220-270 pF here.