The Mellotron Group

Sweet, Sean! Mine's in pieces in my basement. It's getting a thorough bus  
bar cleaning... well, a thorough cleaning and adjusting in general.
 
Frank
 
 
In a message dated 5/24/2012 11:00:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
fourtytwominds@yahoo.com writes:

 
 
 
_http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newmellotrongroup/photos/album/1666904509/pic
/list_ 
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newmellotrongroup/photos/album/1666904509/pic/list) 

Put  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
--- In _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) ,  Robert <rmrmax@...> wrote:
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> I'm not on Facebook; would you mind posting  the pictures elsewhere ?
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> Thanks,
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>  Robert
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