[sdiy] Hammond on ebay, broken

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Friday 16 November 2007 20:10, mike ruberto wrote:
> Now my tone generator is starting to seize up. I suspect the oil
> capillaries have gotten gummed up. I have been putting this off for
> some time because it is a filthy oily mess in there.

I did a service call one time on a unit that was like that -- you'd turn it on 
and the generator wouldn't spin up at all.  It'd been sitting for a really 
long period of time,  I think something like seven years?

Anyhow,  what happenes there is that the old oil has lighter fractions that 
evaporate,  while the heavier stuff stays behind.

What I ended up doing was adding some fresh oil,  and then turning it over by 
hand,  over a period of time,  until it would start when the switch was 
turned on.  Then I told the customer to leave it on and run for a while,  
which allowed the new oil to get to where it needed to be...

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