Oh Happy Day! My M-101's not squealing anymore.

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After about 2 weeks of oiling and testing and more oiling and some false hopes, it appears that my $50 M-101 is working perfectly. At least perfectly enough to suit me. This is my first Hammond. It's my first real organ. (except for those kidneys and...) And it's only the second keyboard instrument I've ever owned, the other being a Casio digital KB I bought about 3 months ago. I think I may put that one up for sale...but I need to think about it for a while.</p>

Anyway, the success seems to have come about as the result of a real dumb move on my part. I was playing it on Sunday night when I got a phone call. Then I went directly to bed. I got an emergency phone call at 5 am and when I came downstairs, the Hammond's power light was glowing brightly. Terror. I figgered I'd burnt it up. But I walked over to it and played a few chords and it was working just fine. Amazing! </p>


I've powered it up and down several times over the last 18 hours and it's spun up silently (well, the start motor makes a bit of noise) every time. I played it for about 2 hours today. I'm a happy camper...or Hammond owner, I spose. I guess I'll check the oil levels and maybe add a bit, then put the cover on the tone generator and move it back into its permanent location. </p>


Yeee-Haw! Now I can see about wreaking havoc on the blues...and maybe a little bit of 60s hard rock stuff.</p>


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[Guest]

Re: Oh Happy Day! My M-101's not squealing anymore.



Still squeal-free? I bought an L-100 last weekend, oiled the heck out of it and thought I was finally squeal-free...until last night when the beast began it's roaring once again. I had my head right in the back of the organ when it started, almost pooped in my pants. </P>

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Re: Oh Happy Day! My M-101's not squealing anymore.



RatMan,</P>


Glad to hear your M101 is now among the quiet generator crowd. Fantastic! enjoy! As for leaving the thing running, I'd be more concerned about a major failure leading to a house fire. No fuses (easy fix), and no grounding. Keep in mind it would need to pull 15 amps or so to blow the breaker in your house pannel. If could be well ablaze before the house pannel responded.</P>


I went shopping the other day and left the RT3 running by accident. It has no pilot lamp so this is easy to do. I normally am very careful about leaving a 53 year old electrical dinosaur runnig unattended. Of course the Leslie and HR40 are running also when I make the mistake, three times the exposure. I did replace <U>all</U> the lamp cord Hammond used to wire the AC in the thing. It was brittle as hell and the insulation broken in spots. I am going to add a pilot lamp next time I pull it away from the wall and put a fuse in the AC junction box.</P>


Have fun!</P>


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