[HAM] The beauty of Tonewheels - an alternate view

[Richard Horton]

The latter..they wander back and forth axially on the shaft just a little (I
just went down and looked again to be sure). If you have access to an L-
model, check it out. I havent studied the details of TW construction yet,
but it appears that each sandwich of tonewheel-driven gear-tonewheel can
slide on its shaft a millimeter or two.

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From: "OF" <scott195 at centurytel.net>
To: "The Hammond Forum" <hammond at zeni.net>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: [HAM] The beauty of Tonewheels - an alternate view


> At 09:04 PM 2/1/2007, Richard Horton wrote:
> >While we are on this subject.....I ask this question on another list and
got
> >no response, so I'll try again here: I was looking up at the tone wheels
> >spinning away in place on a running L-100 (with the generator that is
rail
> >mounted with a removable heavy felt bottom so you can lay on the floor
and
> >look up and watch the whole thing). The tone wheels themselves wander
side
> >to side slightly on their shafts as they spin in front of the magnet
point,
> >sometime regularly, sometimes randomly. This must introduce some random
> >variation in the tones or harmonics, no? Has this been discussed here
> >before?
>
> I'm curious is all-- by "side to side" do you mean perpendicular to the
> shaft? Or side-to-side looking at the organ from the front or back?
>