The Imploding LA School System

[sedition]

Pre-School graduation required a clean shirt and bring your own refreshments.

[DoctorWho]

Libertarians have their own bong, and think you should too, thanks.

That's nearly perfect explanation of libertarianism.
I also heard the following: A libertarian is someone perfectly comfortable living next to a well-adjusted gay couple who have a closet full of guns.

[JM3]

. I fucking hate Jay walkers that think they have the right of way.

You and me would get along juuust fine.

[JM3]

In terms of keyboards, I am currently refurbishing a 1960s Hammond Porta B organ. A family of mice had lived in it for years, and several wires were chewed through. I got it for free, so after rewiring some of the innards & recovering the exterior, I should be in tone-wheel heaven.

Id love to see pics. thats a hard model to come by.

[slowjoe]

In terms of keyboards, I am currently refurbishing a 1960s Hammond Porta B organ. A family of mice had lived in it for years, and several wires were chewed through. I got it for free, so after rewiring some of the innards & recovering the exterior, I should be in tone-wheel heaven.

It may well be too late, but you could a decent amount of money off youtube ads for this project. It's not something a lot of people can do, simply because there won't be a lot of Hammond organs out there, and the brand name is SOOOO recognisable. A bunch of lazy sods like me could live vicariously through the experience, and if you post here, and maybe get onto best-of-youtube or whatever, there's money to be made.

I only realised this when someone made comment about Pendlay trying to get page-views for ads.

[DPMuller]

It may well be too late, but you could a decent amount of money off youtube ads for this project.

Plus, you'd get good Karma for sharing. And maybe there are people out there that want to buy that newly refurbished organ... I'd easily offer double or even triple your purchase price!!!

[Chebass88]

Excellent. A Hurling education-ranting thread is now all about Hammond organs.

As received:


The lower assembly with pedal & amplifier:


Keys and tonebars:


A wiring nightmare:


Since then, I have disassembled the entire organ. Where possible, I unhooked wires, or cut them so I could get the subassemblies out. My plan is to cover the exterior wooden portions in tolex (like an old Ampeg amplifier) or the equivalent. I need to replace several keys, as well as clean everything. I kept a detailed logbook showing all connections as well as digital photographs when I took them out (ostensibly for easier rebuild). I'm not an electronics guy, so this is a bit overwhelming. I can do it though - it will just take longer.

ian

[JM3]

very cool!!! Thanks for putting that one up. What kind of music you play? Id be interested in seeing your progress on this. I used to work for a guy who rebuilt player pianos- interesting stuff.

[Chebass88]

I'll play anything that pays. My current band is a standard bar band, playing classic rock (Beatles, Dead, Doors, etc.) with some originals mixed in. Previously, I've played professional theater jobs, dance bands, jazz, etc.

[ColoWayno]

How did they make the contacts for those keys? The only work I ever did on an organ was cleaning open contacts which were forever getting fouled with dust. And there were so many... That was on a Conn (American Company).