[AT] O.T. question

[Larry Goss]

That organ has a neon bulb on each note on the keyboards, Farmer.  
When I had a similar problem with one of those instruments, I found 
that replacing all the neon bulbs was all it needed to start it 
working again.  Those bulbs are dirt cheap -- they used to be like 
25 for a dollar -- and the bulbs are never supposed to go bad, but 
they do.

There are other MECHANICAL problems that can go wrong with it, 
including mechanical problems with the power supply, but that 
instrument is fairly simple and easy to work on.  Among other 
things, give it a good cleaning and use some electrical contact 
cleaner on it or Brakleen to cut through the oxide coating on all 
the contacts.

You probably can get the necessary parts at Radio shack.

Larry

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Francis Robinson wrote...

>	Shhhh... sneaking this question in here...
>	I have a picture of my Farmall F-30 lightly covered with 
snow hanging over
>a Hammond spinet 2 keyboard electric organ in the living room. OK, 
now I got
>the tractor reference in.   ;-)   This organ has not worked in 
years but it
>was fine just before it stopped coming on (ran when parked). I know 
a few of
>you guys are into things of this nature and I'm not looking for a 
diagnoses
>but just wondering if any of you know of someone in the Midwest 
that does
>work on these. Obviously I don't want to pay for someone's kids 12 
years of
>college to get it fixed but if I could get it going for a couple of 
hundred
>bucks I would like to keep it. This was my mother's and she was 
unable to
>play it for at least 10 years.
>
>
>
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>Proud owner of several cordless hatchets and a large collection of
>solid-state hammers.
>
>"Axe me no questions and I'll tell you no lies"
>
>Francis Robinson
>Central Indiana, USA
>robinson at svs.net
>
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