[sdiy] Hammond on ebay, broken

[mike ruberto]

Thank you for the tip. I read elsewhere that mixing lighter fluid into
the oil will clear out the capillaries in short order. I was thinking
of trying it with WD40 since it is pretty much the same thing as
lighter fluid.

Mike

On Nov 16, 2007 9:09 PM, Roy J. Tellason <rtellason at verizon.net> wrote:
> 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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