Vintage Synth Repair

On Sunday 13 May 2007 07:48, myown_prod wrote:
> I'm looking for info for a Sears Silvertone Organ. They were made by Thomas
> Organ Co., but so far, niether sears or Thomas has been any help.

I worked for a while for a dealer that was handling mostly Thomas organs,  and 
did encounter a few of those while I was doing organ service.  But that was a 
long time ago,  probably around 1979-80 or thereabouts.

Thomas was owned by Whirlpool around the time I stopped,  and had discontinued 
manufacture but still maintained some tech support and parts availability for 
at least a year after that,  maybe longer,  something I can't complain 
about.  :-)

What sort of problems are you having with it?

One thing that comes to mind for me is that a lot of those vintage organs have 
these black electrolytic caps all over the place with one red end -- if you 
find these in there _replace them ALL_!  Often you can see where one has a 
problem because the red stuff on the end will actually have cracks in it.

I don't have service data on any of this stuff any more,  but will be happy to 
help out to the best of my recollections.

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