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RE: [vintagesynthrepair] Re: Hammond H100

2008-04-06 by timothy kosiorek

I live in Cleveland now but I used to live in Copley and worked for 5 of the Akron area music stores,did a lot of repairs in Norton,Barberton and Wadsworth,Massillon. are all your presets at the same low volume? even the drawbars? I've seen the preset contacts produce low volume but usually some of them work,did this happen all of a sudden or did this organ set a long time without being used?
Tim K.
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http://www.sonicelectronicmusic.com


> To: vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com
> From: fsimon001@...
> Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 20:48:11 +0000
> Subject: [vintagesynthrepair] Re: Hammond H100
>
> Tim,
> I now see the mechanics of the preset keys. I was curious of the
> comment of the contacts for my volume problem. I can hold the preset
> key down even though it won't lock and all presets give the same low
> volume. That is why I was thinking it had to be something else. But
> are you saying you have seen the low volume with preset contacts
> before? I'm assuming I would have to dissassemble to spray them
> contants.
>
>; So you live in Ohio? I live in Wadsworth, west of Akron.
> Frank
>
> --- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, timothy kosiorek
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I see this problem with a lot of Hammonds and I usually try to cure
> it without taking anything apart,the grease on the mechanism gets
> thick with age and keeps the bars under the keys from moving,the way
> I fix it is by squirting WD-40 beside the keys and pushing them up
> and down,use the little hose that comes with the WD-40 so you can
> shoot it all around the keys,the sticking mechanism is in the frontal
> part of the key,the WD-40 mixes with the grease and loosens it
> up,once you get the lock down bar to move go back and forth between
> the cancel key and the various preset keys,the volume should also
> return by rapidly moving the keys up and down because it usually is
> caused by dirty key contacts and the movement will clean the
> contacts,I've been fixing Hammonds this way for 30 years.only after
> trying this do I rarely have to get under the keys,if you have to get
> under them it is a bit of a project but only takes about an hour.
> > Regards
> > Tim K.
> >
>
>
>
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