[HAM] Overdrive

[JOHN HABURAY]

So, I see from your site that you use orange drops for recapping. Do 
you go 
to any lengths to match them to individual filters?

Also, do you claim, as above, to actually rebuild generators? Or did 
you 
mean to say that you rebuild Hammonds?

  Scott and........
  I consider recapping as rebuilding generators. If they need any more rebuilding than that I throw them away. I match my caps to each other. An overwound or underwound  magnet coil or filter coil will not affect things any differently then a cap that has soared way past what it was suppossed to be in the first place. In other words if things were adjusted at the factory they were adjusted for whatever over or under % caps they used on any given generator. So installing fairly matched caps pretty much should bring you back to square one which is all caps being close to the SAME value and close to the RIGHT value.  Actually, I have rebuilt Hammonds organs that had softer and louder tones throughout and after recapping were far more even across the board. I have never had really bad results from recapping as far as anything goes. Nice even tone, great sound. If I ever do run into one that won't come around for me, the caps and RF's come back off and it goes in the garbage. An
 insane person might try to even it out, but I haven't reched that point of insanity yet, I don't think. (Others may disagree). Again, I will say that I know of maybe a half a dozen wax cap organs that went out of here that did NOT need recapping according to my ears (not by testing them each ), but honestly those seem to be getting few and far between. 
  John 


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