[sdiy] Spring is in the air!

[Peter Snow]

Hi Gang, 

The snow has nearly all melted in Ottawa and it is garbage day today.  Here's my haul acquired while
fetching my daughter from sewing lessons (8 minutes drive):

One Lowrey dual manual organ with foot pedals.  Works fine, some keys sticking.  Rickity tick drum
machine built in. Only about 8 different sounds - really, really cheesy.  The wood work is particle
board with wood grain stick-on plastic "veneer".  A bench too.  Suggestions?

An ancient intercom box with speaker and talk/listen switch.  On opening it up I found it has a
circuit board made of clear plastic with holes drilled and the components' leads pushed thu' and
soldered on the reverse side - no copper track at all!  The battery obviously leaked at some point
and the inside is a white gucky mess.  Should be fun playing with that.

Three VHS machines. I'll brerak them up for parts (nice motors in there I think)

A fairly beaten up cassete recorder. 

An old Philips tube tape recorder. Looks dirty but may clean up OK.

Urei 537 "one-third octave" mono graphic equalizer.  28 sliders - unfortunately about 1/4 of them
are broken off.

An all-in-one stereo unit (no speakers).  Arm broken off the turntable but all the electronics seem
intact.

OK, OK, most of it is crap, but it is the excitement of finding the stuff that counts.  My daughter
is getting really good at spotting electronic stuff at the side of the road on garbage day.  I have
taught her well (sigh!).  

My wife is mad as hell!

I LOVE spring!

Peter