YADOOF - Yet Another Day of Organ Fixage
Two service gigs yesterday. One in a Chinese church. Late C-2 with a 70's Leslie 122 and a home made tone cabinet. HR-40 power and reverb amps in a custom wooden box hooked up to a HiFi speaker. Lovely! Leslie motors were all stuck. Took them out and cleaned them. Organ was all distorted. Suspect 6SN7 is bad. B+ for tremolo kit was fetched from inside preamp using the thinnest gauge wire I've seen in a long time. Fortunately B+ is relatively low voltage... hey waitaminnit!
The other organ was a gig organ in a miserable state. Hadn't been serviced since the 70's and had spent several winters outside under a tarp. Spent an hour getting the Leslie amp out of the cabinet (screw rusted to t-nut). And another hour trying to open the outlet box on the organ. Also rusted shut. Lots of shorts as the wires were all cracked - sigh. This baby needs a lot of TLC...
Been busy doing inventory and ordering parts today. Gotta get all those church Hammonds ready in time for the Christmas season...
Aside from that I'm still cranking away on HP stuff. Hope to get some more work on Chris' memorial site done tonight.
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