Hi folks</P>
I have just finished months of work on my tired wax capped RT3.</P>
There came atime a few months back where I had recapped the preamp, replaced the power resistors and rebuilt the Leslie amp and I still wasn't getting "the sound" and I decided to go ahead with the recapping of the generator under the supervision of Kon Zissis. Once the recapping was finished I recalibrated the generator output figures to match a set of readings that Kon took from a 1965 A100 with the mylar caps. This has given the organ the familiar sound heard on 60s and 70s rock and pop records. The organ is not over bright or shrill as some people complain and I still have the tone control open to full band width. I also recapped the vibrato line box</P>
I decided at the same time that it would be easier to remove the generator to do this work (although you can recap the generator easily in the organ) and gut the organ so that I could refinish it from bare wood to remove all the dinks and scratches from its years in a church. I should point out that the finish was beyond the capability of a "Restore a finish" type treatment and differentparts of the cabinet had faded unequally. The only part that was the original reddy walnut was the music rack base.</P>
Once the organ was apart I decided that I would rather have a C3 type cabinet in my living room and as I don't use the pedals I decided to reduce the cabinet to C3 specs which also meant making a replica pedal shelf and adding the tubes for the wiring loom.</P>
I have even managed to extend the wiring loom from the Leslie connector kit down to the original outlet box at the bottom so that the Leslie plug is in theplace of the old 5 pin PR40 plug.</P>
I added trekII cheekblocks as the RT3 didn't have the right hand ones and added their 3 position switch which runs an EIS relay in the Leslie.</P>
All in all I am very pleased with the finish.The only give away is that it doesn't have a 25 note pedal switch panel yet, but I can get one of those in the future.</P>
Ihave uploaded some of the many pictures I took onto the gallery.</P>
Cheers</P>
Dave</P>
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