[HAM] M-102- vibrato rotor -update

[David Damroze]

On Jul 1, 2008, at 3:29 PM, David Anderson wrote:

>
> Is there any way you can run the generator with the scanner cover off
> to see if it will come up to speed?
   Just tried that.  Removed the 'tuna can' , checked that I could spin 
the rotor with
my finger THEN plugged it in and turned it on.
   Nope , rotor not spinning. How DOES that spring clutch thingy work ?
>
> You deserve a medal for going beyond the call of duty to save this
> scanner. I've never heard of one being so much trouble.
>
  Limited cash flow and a bit of time helps.
  Also, having recently ( while on hiatus from this list) experimented 
with Yammies,
  Wurlies and even a Thomas Trianon, has given me a greater appreciation 
for the Hammond.
   Those were  a lot of fun for such things as the theme from The 
Avengers and playing around with
a lounge version of ' Dead Babies'  , but then I started trying to 
learn Joe Zawinuls ' Mercy, Mercy, Mercy'
  and no matter how I futzed around with the sounds on the Thomas the 
soul just weren't there. So,
  back to Craigslist for a Hammond.   I had been talking to the owner of 
the M-102 who had originally
asked $200, but then he got to the ' my wife wants it out of here' 
point and offered to give it to me.  I passed since I don't own a
truck, and besides, it was a ferry ride away in Kingston.
   So, I went to look at the T-412 which was closer to home and for $40 
, I verifing that, yes, it would fit in the back of my wifes Subaru
  ( who was out of town on business ) I brought it on home.
   After getting the T-412 home and doing the usual cleaning up, I did a 
little research on line and realized that
the M-102 is actually smalller then the T , since the T has the rhythm 
box on top,  and the M-102 would also fit
in the Subaru.  So, I e-mailed the guy with the M-102 and made 
arrangements to go get it bright and early on a Saturday morning .  
That afternoon,
  after picking my wife up from the airport, I was certain to take her 
for dinner and cocktails before gently
telling her that while she was at her aunts 90th birthday party in 
Detroit I had brought TWO Hammonds
home and one of them was in the kitchen of our apartment.  Fortunately, 
my lovely , kind and understanding
wife, having been raised in the Baptist church as well as being a child 
of the sixties and good 'ol soul music appreciates  the Hammond sound 
and has been quite forgiving .
   ( am i officially in the cult , yet ?)

  And, as far as getting a medal ,having the back-up and advice of the 
great people on this forum
gives me more courage to poke around in these things then I should 
probably rationally have :-)

  David ( fanaticism in defense of Hammondry is no vice...) D.