The Mellotron Group

I have uploaded photos to the home pages of a Novatron I am redoing. This  
one is way better than most because it is a Streetly restoration from about 
7  years ago. Sadly, it has been moved around quite a bit and has been 
dropped and  damaged. I fixed it up a few years ago, but it continued to suffer 
from poor  storage and lack of maintenance. The owner has been unsettled for 
the last few  years but is in a much better situation now so he wanted it 
fixed up again. It  was black, but now it is white. Here are photos of the 
overhaul ( I can't begin  to think of it as a restoration as Streetly put it 
right, years ago.) I've only  just begun, but this time, I did the cabinet 
first.
 
Frank
 
_http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newmellotrongroup/photos/album/207942565/pic/
list_ 
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newmellotrongroup/photos/album/207942565/pic/list) 
 
 
See, now and again I can contribute worthwhile stuff, as opposed to always  
posting silly, off topic shit like this...

I have to say that I'm a bit surprised to see a Novatron with an old 
style frame.  I thought those would have been long gone by the time the 
Novatron name came into use.
jb


lsf5275@aol.com wrote:

> I have uploaded photos to the home pages of a Novatron I am redoing. 
> This one is way better than most because it is a Streetly restoration 
> from about 7 years ago. Sadly, it has been moved around quite a bit 
> and has been dropped and damaged. I fixed it up a few years ago, but 
> it continued to suffer from poor storage and lack of maintenance. The 
> owner has been unsettled for the last few years but is in a much 
> better situation now so he wanted it fixed up again. It was black, but 
> now it is white. Here are photos of the overhaul ( I can't begin to 
> think of it as a restoration as Streetly put it right, years ago.) 
> I've only just begun, but this time, I did the cabinet first.
>  
> Frank
>  
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newmellotrongroup/photos/album/207942565/pic/list
>  
>  
> See, now and again I can contribute worthwhile stuff, as opposed to 
> always posting silly, off topic shit like this...
>

I stripped the outside and edges and made repairs. On the inside, I sanded  
and prepared the surface and then primed and painted it. I should have this 
 machine at NEARfest this year.
 
 
In a message dated 4/27/2010 11:03:45 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
wonggster@gmail.com writes:

Did  you paint over the black or did you take it off  before you painted it 
 white.

Astra, most probably
 
 
In a message dated 4/27/2010 12:21:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
wonggster@gmail.com writes:

 
 
 
Who's using tron this year at the Fest ?

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:18 AM, <_lsf5275@aol.lsf_ 
(mailto:lsf5275@aol.com) > wrote:


 
 
 
I stripped the outside and edges and made repairs. On the inside, I  sanded 
and prepared the surface and then primed and painted it. I should  have 
this machine at NEARfest this year.
 

 
In a message dated 4/27/2010 11:03:45 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
_wonggster@gmail.won_ (mailto:wonggster@gmail.com)  writes:

Did you paint over the black or did you take it off  before  you painted it 
white.

----- Original Message ----- 

  From: lsf5275@aol.com 
  To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 9:24 PM
  Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Novatron Rebuild





  Astra, most probably

  In a message dated 4/27/2010 12:21:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, wonggster@gmail.com writes:

  Who's using tron this year at the Fest ?



  On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:18 AM, <lsf5275@aol.com> wrote:



  Oh, are they on this year? They used mine in London last week, and borrowed one in Holland, although they used samples on their album. Which reminds me... Frank (Samagaio), are you in San Diego?

  Andy T.

In a message dated 4/27/2010 2:02:47 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
andy.thompson@virgin.net writes:


Oh, are they on this year? They  used mine in London last week, and 
borrowed one in Holland, although they used  samples on their album. Which reminds 
me... Frank (Samagaio), are you in San  Diego?
 
Andy  T.



Hi, Andy.  I still am.

Frank (Samagaio)