Hammondomonium: Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!

[Reeltarded]

We have a chopper B3. It was chopped by a guy in the 80s who only chopped 40-50 rigs. There are no schematics or service manuals that I can find.

Besides the fact that the 122 went down and someone started feeding it over amp rated fuses before calling me, the organ just went to a tiny output that is barely audible through the temporary replacement 147 amp section.

Given that I am not a service tech and the guts are not like anything else, I have chased my tail until I see tail when I close my eyes. My tiny legs are tired.

The chop job on this thing is total. It's the most shallow cabinet I have ever seen a full organ mounted in. The preamp board looks like a handheld transistor radio.

Anyone ever rebuilt a B from a trash pile? Anyone know of a B3 for sale with 122 in the reasonable $3-4k range? Just scanning options. This is the only one I have to work on, so I don't plan on becoming a Hammond specialist... honestly.

[Reeltarded]

Fixed.. err worked out. Trek II here I come.

[xtian]

Ouch, man, you're giving me whiplash.

[martin manning]

So what was the problem?

[Reeltarded]

The preamp is not workable. In the chop it was changed to a crappy sounding propria-poop retro AM radio with goop over sections so you could never tell what SS circuit the dead 'inventor' used anyhow. No diagrams or schematics exist. It's going to be refitted with a Trek system. I have to drive it all to Atlanta and stay overnight, which sucks almost as bad because I don't get paid for this crap.