[HAM] Blessed resistance wires

[Joel Kurpius]

Michael,

Rumor has it you may just be the one person on earth that can help me.  I
have three malfunctioning resistance wires within the lower manual.  The
notes are:

Note 10, Drawbar 7, Tone 50
Note 12, Drawbar 8, Tone 55
Note 13, Drawbar 7, Tone 53

The problem appears to be corrosion, and not corrosion caused by that evil
foam I¹ve been reading about, I have a felt-only organ.  Some sort of
substance appears to have been doused upon the organ at sometime in its
life, leading to local manifestations of corrosion, some of which has
undoubtedly disabled those three tones.

My question for you is this...
It is my understanding that there is definitely a planned scheme regarding
the resistance values in the wiring.  I haven¹t made all 500+ measurements,
but enough to see that they range from about 15 to 200 ohms, depending which
wire is tested.  Rather than removing the faulty wire, which would required
the removal of each layer of resistance wires throughout, I would prefer to
simply attach some standard 22 gauge wire and add a resistor to create the
proper resistance in the line.

Do you know, tone by tone, drawbar by drawbar, what the resistance in those
three wires should be?  If not I¹ll either have to guess, or measure the
line on a different, but similar, organ.

I have to believe that none of this is an exact science, as each organ
probably has slightly modified resistance values, but those values are
generally in the same ballpark with each other.

Thank you for you help,
Joel Kurpius