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Elka Panther tuning coil or oscillator board? (Panther 100)
I picked this Panther 100 up last night for a couple hundred bucks, sight unseen and unfortunately, untested... but was told it was played "a handful of times" and was in mint condition.
Well, it's not in mint condition. In fact, it's far from it. Cosmetically it looks great, inside is clean, the case is clean, and it came with the stand, volume pedal...I'm guessing everything that came with it originally. The buss bars are completely corroded and so most of the keys aren't working, but my biggest surprise was the missing tuning coil on the D#...
I put up some posts in the FB groups and did some research, only to find out these are pretty hard to come by unless I could get a hold of an oscillator card or a donor organ. Fortunately it looks like most of the Panther series uses the same tuning coils at least. Trouble is finding one.
Any experts here that know where I might be able to source a spare? I feel like had I known this, I may have passed on the organ seeing as how I really don't need another project. But shame on me for not testing.
Well, it's not in mint condition. In fact, it's far from it. Cosmetically it looks great, inside is clean, the case is clean, and it came with the stand, volume pedal...I'm guessing everything that came with it originally. The buss bars are completely corroded and so most of the keys aren't working, but my biggest surprise was the missing tuning coil on the D#...
I put up some posts in the FB groups and did some research, only to find out these are pretty hard to come by unless I could get a hold of an oscillator card or a donor organ. Fortunately it looks like most of the Panther series uses the same tuning coils at least. Trouble is finding one.
Any experts here that know where I might be able to source a spare? I feel like had I known this, I may have passed on the organ seeing as how I really don't need another project. But shame on me for not testing.