[sdiy] WTB: Farfisa parts (and about oscillators...)

[Antti PitkXmXki]

Hi,

Breaking adjustement screws of the tuning coils of my Farfisa Compact Duo 
organ has recently become a problem. Does anybody have a 
broken-beyond-repair Farfisa that would be source for some tuning coils or 
oscillator cards for me (whole cards are easier to remove)? I do have some 
extra tuning coils from a Farfisa Compact Duo that was destroyed by fire, 
but they're kinda dirty etc., so if anybody simply happens to have some 
parts they don't need at all, please contact me.

BTW, the following Farfisas have the same oscillator cards in them:

-Combo Compact, Mini Compact, Compact Deluxe, Compact Duo
-Rhapsody, Foyer, Ballata

It's kinda sad that the tuning coils break easily and that them breaking 
might result in a non tuneable-organ... I think it might be a good idea to 
come up with some oscillator circuit that uses modern parts and that could 
be used to replace the old main oscillator completely. Or hmm, what do you 
gurus think, would it be a good idea to replace one of the caps of the 
oscillator with a variable capacitance capacitor, so that the oscillator 
could be tuned with the cap? Of course the cap shouldn't be affected by heat 
very much - A friend of mine replaced all the caps of a Farfisa Compact 
oscillator card with modern caps, but the card became extrelemy sensitive to 
heat and would only hold proper tune for a short time (he used wrong kinda 
caps I suppose).

Thanks for any help in advance,
Antti

PS: I got new parts for my Farfisa Professional from the same 
"spare-parts-guy", he understood my situation completely. This time I 
brought proper equipment including desoldering wick and got the 
"mini-boards" out easily without any damaged foil :)

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