While one will find all sorts of things in instruments this old, Hammond did not use gold plated screws. I wonder if you are mistaking brass screws for gold. I have seen brass screws in many scanners. Coincidently I am also rebuilding a 52 C2 just now. It has brass screws in the scanner. I am guessing that they switched from brass to plated steel later on to save money; Hammond made a lot of minor changes in the interest of saving a few dollars on each organ.
Interesting -- I recently rebuilt a 1952 C-2 scanner, and all the stationary plate screws were all gold-plated. These don't appear to be. What's really fun is when you have to rethread the bearings with new oil threads.
Hammond organ company made a major mistake of discontinuing the manufacturing tone wheel organs. They would never had been bought out by several companies if they could had keep making tone wheel organs. Plus, they ended up buying out Leslie back then.
@patsaxon Unfortunately it was not an easy decision to discontinue making tonewheel organs, but these were much too expensive to manufacture, and the competition too fierce from electronic models made by the many competitors. The company would have gone under much sooner if the tonewheel was not abandoned.
Hammond acquired Electro Music (Leslie) back in 1980, many years after Laurens Hammond's passing. Mr Hammond would have never allowed this to happen during his lifetime.
OK, I have my M-3 scanner taken apart. I can't get the 2 set screws off. I used a small phillips jeweler screwdriver and still won't work. I looked for a "bristol wrench" at the home improvement store today and they looked at me like I was retarded. Can I just soak the whole spindle mechanism in solvent or does it have to be taken apart? Thanks for your help!
I love you! Hahahaha... Seriously though, thanks for making this video. I also like to tinker with Hammonds. I bought a 1958 M-3 and have been wanting to know how to do maintenance like this.
While one will find all sorts of things in instruments this old, Hammond did not use gold plated screws. I wonder if you are mistaking brass screws for gold. I have seen brass screws in many scanners. Coincidently I am also rebuilding a 52 C2 just now. It has brass screws in the scanner. I am guessing that they switched from brass to plated steel later on to save money; Hammond made a lot of minor changes in the interest of saving a few dollars on each organ.
bobmann107 10 months ago
Interesting -- I recently rebuilt a 1952 C-2 scanner, and all the stationary plate screws were all gold-plated. These don't appear to be. What's really fun is when you have to rethread the bearings with new oil threads.
southerner66 10 months ago
Hammond organ company made a major mistake of discontinuing the manufacturing tone wheel organs. They would never had been bought out by several companies if they could had keep making tone wheel organs. Plus, they ended up buying out Leslie back then.
patsaxon 10 months ago
@patsaxon Unfortunately it was not an easy decision to discontinue making tonewheel organs, but these were much too expensive to manufacture, and the competition too fierce from electronic models made by the many competitors. The company would have gone under much sooner if the tonewheel was not abandoned.
Hammond acquired Electro Music (Leslie) back in 1980, many years after Laurens Hammond's passing. Mr Hammond would have never allowed this to happen during his lifetime.
bobmann107 10 months ago
Desensitization can be done without disconnecting any wires.
Zylstra555 1 year ago
OK, I have my M-3 scanner taken apart. I can't get the 2 set screws off. I used a small phillips jeweler screwdriver and still won't work. I looked for a "bristol wrench" at the home improvement store today and they looked at me like I was retarded. Can I just soak the whole spindle mechanism in solvent or does it have to be taken apart? Thanks for your help!
deerfish3000 1 year ago
I love you! Hahahaha... Seriously though, thanks for making this video. I also like to tinker with Hammonds. I bought a 1958 M-3 and have been wanting to know how to do maintenance like this.
deerfish3000 1 year ago
Hi, thank's for your great effort to share your video's here with us.
Your video's are a great help how to take care of our Hammond organ's!
Carsten P. - Denmark
carstenkolle 2 years ago