Mellotronists

Dear All,
 
Got invited by someone who lives quite near me to come and have a look at  
his Mellotron as (I quote)"bought in 1975 and haven't powered it up since  1982".
 
Thankfully all this time had been spent indoors in a reasonable atmosphere  
so the major problems were dirt and the tapes being set in a permanent W shape. 
 A number of pre-flight checks were carried out, plus some cleaning,  
tightening and de-magging the beast was powered up and after the usual  CMC10 pause 
it fired up as keen as you like. With a set of my tapes in it played  really 
well - much to my surprise!
 
Result - one of the tidiest M400's I've ever seen back in action...
 
Norm

> so the major problems were dirt and the tapes being set in a permanent
> W shape.

Of course there is a well-known solution to this. Take the tapes out and
bake them in an oven at gas mark 8 for two days. They won't be in a W
shape after that. Or any shape at all.

Mike Dickson (tron@...) M400 #996
The Official Cynic of Streetly Electronics
Streetly Sample Library http://www.blackcat.demon.co.uk/tron/