[AT] O.T. question

charlie hill chill8 at suddenlink.net
Fri Jan 26 05:46:05 PST 2007


Here Farmer,  buy this one and you get to go to Florida to pick it up!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Yamaha-organ-YC-45D-W-Bass-pedls-manual-No-Reserve_W0QQitemZ120078968253QQihZ002QQcategoryZ16219QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] O.T. question


>I had an old Hammond electric organ for a while, and most of the problems 
>were with individual keys where the contacts needed to be cleaned. I say 
>"most" of the problems because there were various other components that 
>kept dying, one after the other, and I finally just gave up on it. While 
>the old unit might have some emotional value, I really don't think it is 
>worth the trouble to fix up. Unlike antique tractors, parts are very hard 
>to find, the skills required to repair/maintain are scarce, and the newer 
>technology is cheaper and (arguably) better.
>
> Mike
>
> 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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