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Nice unit! And going cheap!

Reminds me of a 1936 Model A I saw in a Salvation Army thrift store
in Walla Walla, WA back around 1995. It was $400 and came with one
of the first Leslies ever built--one of the ultra-rare units that
spun counter-clockwise and was the size of a large refridgerator.
The whole set-up was beat up and scuffed pretty bad, but everything
worked perfectly. What a great restoration project if only I had the
time (and space!) and the means to get it to my house two hours'
drive away. As it was, the rig sat in the store for nearly a month
until it was sold to a local church.

If only that same scenerio would drop into my lap today.

Too bad Hammond doesn't have a homepage (understandable). At least
there are collectors sites all over the place and active trading
going on. There are dying Hammonds all over the intermountain
Pacific Northwest--partly because service techs have to come in from
Portland, Spokane or Boise, and won't visit until they have at least
three or four other repairs in the neighborhood.