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Once I took apart a slightly newer busted tube tester, and the quality was insane. I've opened up my fair share of old electronics as well. me too i lack a de-soldering iron so the tips of the fingers get burned sometimes, it is a part of the joy it makes now a great extension to growing modular. these days i got an old tape deck from uher sold to me as not working, i opened it and whoaaa, i have never seen such a great beautiful built quality before, the 70s engineers seem to have been crazy, everything from a mix of colors (electros are yellows, reds and blues) to a mix of functionality (it was a deck but built as a sum of modules, each one easily detachable). sometimes i buy malfunctioning old audio gear such as tape decks or equalizers, i then plunge with nights on repairing them, and if unsuccessful i can anytime recycle its components. My curiosity was that the electros were generally larger especially the radial electrolitics, i find them huge too like some other era dinosaurus, but they deserve a chance too. Don't be surprised if this happens to you, too! Almost ten years ago and I STILL haven't made use of it yet. Here is a cool find from an organ I tore up years ago.
LOWREY ORGAN SHUTTING DOWN HOW TO
It's an example of how to build instruments that will last a long time. Organs see heavy use/abuse and you can check out just how the maker approached this. If you're starting out DIY this will come in handy.Īlso, be observant in how the manufacturer constructed it. Sometimes it will just be too old and brittle. You can get a lot of wire from an organ, too. Some of them will have LFO circuits for vibrato, oscillators, or other useful circuits to use or copy. If it is convenient, keep the circuit boards intact. Heat sinks from power transistors or otherĬircuit boards for the transistors (good for noise usually), high quality caps if they are there, inductors, octave divider chips (ka-ching$) Metal rails (some will have threaded screw holes, too) Sure, screws and the like are cheap to buy but it is very convenient to have them around for whenever you need them.
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This stuff is super useful to have around. To put an organ together takes a ton of hardware. They really don't make 'em like they used to so it's good to grab this stuff while they still exist. Voice cards (some may be self contained little oscillators)Ī lot of that stuff may be high quality. Switches (typically rocker types with wire contacts) Here is some of the more obvious stuff to hang onto if you have the space to store stuff: It comes in handy after years have past and I forget what came from where. Whenever practical, I like to bag up what I pull and label where it came from. I've only torn apart a couple of large organs (they were dead at that point so I didn't have to deal with feelings of guilt.