[AT] O.T. question

[Larry Goss]

BTW, Farmer, I'm assuming that the organ is new enough that Hammond 
had given up on the tone wheel concept.  If not, then that's a 
whole 'nother story.  But keep in mind that I have a tube of the 
special tone wheel oil out in the shop.  I may have one of the last 
tubes of that stuff left in captivity.

Larry

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Larry Goss wrote...

>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>"farmer"
>>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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