[HAM] Overdrive

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At 04:09 PM 11/19/2006, JOHN HABURAY wrote:
>   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.

I had so many different volumes from one note to the next that I was forced 
to recalibrate. The results still weren't to my liking. Kon has also posted 
multiple times about needing to recalibrate after fixing new caps. I wonder 
if my generator had been recalibrated at some point before I ever got it. 
That might explain the wild disparities of tone volumes after the recap.