[HAM] The beauty of Tonewheels - an alternate view

[Ted Thompson]

I haven't made an exhaustive survey of gennys, but as I recall, they all 
have this "axial slop" in their construction.


Cheers!

Ted Thompson
General Manager - Speakeasy Vintage Music

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Richard Horton wrote:
> 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.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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?
>>
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