[HAM] Wax caps measured and then placed in four pans at theHammondfactory, was Recapping

[Harold]

From: "Brad Baker"



> All this stuff about cap matching and tolerances and procedures in the
> factory is almost meaningless if in the Hammond factory the Tone
> Generators were calibrated after the caps were installed. (It doesn't
> make much sense for them to be calibrated *before* the caps were
> installed).  The tonal balance is done primarily by the TG
> calibration.

Ya mean that the reason a recap is subject to undesirable note variations is 
that the original individual note volume was to a great extent done at the 
magnet rather than by cap values?

So if you put in new caps you have a likelihood of needing to recalibrate 
because the original caps *were not as uniform as your replacements*.

This would explain a lot and in a sense makes both the anti and pro 
recappers statements more valid, subject to the factory calibration per 
note- up, down or mid.

Fortunately my '55 C3 doesn't do to badly on its original wax caps. About 
the only benefit of changing caps and recalibrating could be in cleaner 
signal, less crosstalk.
Even that suppossed benefit does not seem to be uniformly confered!

After all even some of the "faults" Laurens Hammond wanted out of the 
Hammonds are now percieved to be benefits that the clones strive to add!

Harold