Early 1950's Hammond C2 organ Leslie connector repair and fuse protection

This organ had burned wiring at the Leslie connector and Leslie cable plug. It uses a solid state Trek II preamp. We replaced the bad wiring and installed new connectors on the organ and the Leslie cable. We installed 3 fuses...1 on the power line coming in to the organ (6 amp), 1 for the electronics chassis (1 amp) and another for the Leslie (3 amp). This will greater protection for the entire system against shorts or arcing.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Early
• 1952
• Hammond
• C2
• organ
• Leslie
• connector
• repair
• fuse
• protection
• trek2
• trek
• solid
• state
• preamp

[MrRobert5]

Why was the tube electronics replaced? why couldn't they be restored?

[retrochad]

@MrRobert5 This was like this before we started working on it...we would always restore the original tube electronics but I think maybe the owners of it put in the TRek II kit as they wanted the percussion feature which the C-2 doesn't orginally have (it first came about in the B-3, C-3 series)

[cjcarter17]

how come you don't make any school bus videos anymore

[retrochad]

@cjcarter17 I will make some more bus videos! I just drove one of the buses on Saturday...however I have had to do a lot more car repair recently.

[dnl5649]

@dnl5649 i meant speaker. its a mono amplifier

[dnl5649]

hi chad, how are you doing? i have im guessing a early 30's hammond organ, model M. all tubes. it has 8 big power bugs on top of the amplifier. along with like 50 capacitors and another 120 in the tone generator, another 100 in a little silver wooden box and maybe 50 more behind a weird cover. it plays very beautifully! but it makes popping sounds thru the speakers. i want to recap it but my grandma thinks i dont need to. but i dont want something burning up

[6452ss]

what beautiful tone 

[batterymaker]

Colonel Cinders lived there....wow....

[Jasons1487]

it was oiled on my birthday 35 years before I was born