----- Original Message -----From: jeffrey coulterSent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 3:12 PMSubject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: OT but with keys
--- On Thu, 9/18/08, fdoddy@aol.com <fdoddy@aol.com> wrote:
From: fdoddy@aol.com <fdoddy@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: OT but with keys
To: newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008, 1:52 PM
he did my 2600 as well and it kicks....
congrats...
he kinda yanked me around about my odyssey for months.
i was all ready to drive it to him and drop it off.
he kept pushing it back over and over...
i finally bought a few new sliders from synthfool and put them in myself.
it was a lot easier than i thought, and now i can clean and refurbish the ones i removed, and use them to replace another set of four, and continue until all the linear 100ks are refurbed [and most of the sliders on an odyssey are 100k linear]. if you take them apart carefully they can be cleaned up pretty nicely, though not as smooth as the new ones, they are a lot better than having 30+ years of gunk and dust in them!
i have heard nothing but good things about his work [other than taking forever], but he kinda hosed me by not accepting the work after promising to do so. oh well...
...jeff
and congrats on the wurly, fritz. i adore those things.
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Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: OT but with keys
2008-09-18 by Jon
I took a different tack - I told him I didn't want
anybody other than him to do mine and that I wasn't in any hurry, that
I wanted to just send it and let him work on it when he got to it because it
wasn't doing any good sitting around my house, and that I wouldn't ask him about
it and would just wait until he contacted me and told me it was done. It
took the better part of a year, but I got it back and it's wonderful. I
didn't have any updates or mods done, I wanted to be able to get familiar
with a really stock early Seventies 2600 for now and I can always
get it upgraded at a later date. It worked for me and I got just what I
wanted out of the deal, so I'm happy with how everything went.