Putney

[Saul Stokes]

Hi folks, I came across a Putney for sale and had a few questions.  The 
guy who's selling it has never gotten it to work.  He's not a musican and 
happend to pick it up at a school auction in the late eighties. When I 
went to see it tonight the electrical cord was loose and since we didn't 
have a soldering iron with us he had to hold it to the contacts to power 
it up.  The power light does come on and the insides are clean. It's in 
really nice shape. And the price he offered me is a steal.  But, I 
didn't have a real good chance to play around with it since he had to 
hold the power cord.  My questions is this.  Has anyone ever purchased a 
Putney that wasn't working thinking that they would just repair what's 
broken only to find out later that it was unrepairable? My brother has 
most the schems but I'm still a little reluctant to buy something that 
isn't working. On the other hand he doesn't seem to know how the pins 
work so it could be just that the pins aren't patched correctly. I'm sort 
of throwing dice her.  Anyone have any input?  Again, the price is really 
really good.

Saul
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