[sdiy] A really strange find...

[patchell]

    I have been helping my parents clean out their home as they are
preparing to move into a retirement home up in Seatle.

    My dad used to repair organs as a hobby/part time business.  One of
the things I found today in a heap to be thrown away is a HMR
"Strobetune 220".  My Dad said it didn't work.  I figured at the worst,
I had a stobe wheel so I could build my own electronics around it.  I
opened it up...man, what a KLUGE, I can't believe a company would sell
something like this.  One of the circuits is actually built on perf
board.  The motor is hot glued to a circuit card.  Stuff like that.

    But, when I tried it out, it seems to work OK, although, with the
way it was built, I would not be surprised that there is some
intermittent problem.

    Still, it is a stobe tuner.  Does anybody know anything about
these...are they total crap? (It sure looks like a piece of crap!).

--
 -Jim
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