Mellotronists

On 8/18/03 4:10 PM, Gene Stopp wrote:
>I discovered that when the head channel was cranked over to C track, it was
>shorted to the frame. Move it to B or A, short gone. I traced it down to one
>of the spring clips. There was an intermittant short where the clip was held
>with the insulating washer. Took it apart, reassembled, short gone,
>microphonicity gone.
>
>Another thing for the maintenece checklist!

You may be on to something here.  A maintenence checklist of stuff to 
check monthly, annually or at each power-up to keep your tron in tip top 
shape would be really handy to have.  I wonder if anyone has written 
something like this already?

On 8/18/03 6:52 PM, lsf5275@... wrote:
>The three Mellotrons all fit in the Expedition together. If they had all 
>been 
>in the bondage get-up instead of one being in a crate, I probably mighta 
>coulda got four in there.

Wow, you live on the edge, my friend!  I think if I had two or more trons 
I would never let them ride in the same car together, sort of the way 
they never let the (US) President and Vice President ride in the same 
airplane together, in case there is a crash.  :-)

-jim/m400#680