http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newmellotrongroup/photos/album/1666904509/pic/listPut them in my photo folder here on the group.
Now that the initial pants shitting is done with on my part...
Got it from a musician I'd played with before in my hometown. He's a barber by day. Said he'd paid $700 for it a while back, asked $350. I'm unemployed so it took a month of odd jobs but bought it last afternoon. I could have bought actually useful band equipment for $350, but I've never seen a Hammond go for less than 2K. Had to jump on this!
No Leslie unit, no bench. Will be building a makeshift Leslie out of a Leslie 10CT I will be harvesting from a dead home spinet our bass player salvaged. Build it an enclosure, power supply, amplifier. It will do until I can get a 122 or 147.
Cosmetics
Veneer all intact but scuffed up a lot, slightly gouged in some places. Someone had previously broken the music stand on it, so wood putty and a drill bit will be required. Will eventually make a plexiglass back for it.
The Hammond itself
Start switch is bummed up and has to be hassled with to get it to start. Will fix. (I've spent the last 5 months rebuilding keyboards on vintage jukeboxes! What a nightmare that can be!) That's why the previous owner believed it didn't run, until I got it to run at his place.
TG slightly over oiled. Have ordered Hammond oil but wont be using it here for a couple of years! All those old wax caps have gotten very muffled, will be replacing following Stefan Vorkoetter's excellent guide. Scanner is fully functional, but will be recapping linebox as well. Will eventually recap the amplified for safety reasons.
Percussion didn't decay when I inspected it a month ago. Now the percussion is completely non-op. I don't own my own multimeter, but when I do, will be fixing this. Hammondwiki has a decent guide on that subject.
Reverb is non-op as well.
One hellacious deal all the same!
That and, I realized the side profile of the A-100 is not dissimilar from a M400.
-Sean
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