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Move this organ from the first floor to the second floor as as fast as possible. |
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Keyboards at Attention.
After taking the organ apart this far I started taking pictures just in case I needed to see just how it all went back together. |
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Side View. The Organ has three keyboard. After removing a few screws the keyboards tilt up for easy servicing. |
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This is the top cover opened exposing all the guts inside. |
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Zip lock bags are great to have especially if there is more than 100 screws. (10 per bag or something like that..) |
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Keyboard base removal:
I'm guessing if I can get this board off, I can push this beast through a standard door. My front door is a little wider than the rest of the doors in the house. |
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I got the front off pretty easily after removing lots of screws. |
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They go here...
Just unplug all the wires and mark them so they all go back to where they belong. (save picture just in case) |
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Use a sharpie to mark connectors. |
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Wires pulled from lower keyboard. |
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More wires that need to be pulled. Note, no wires were cut in the making of this story! |
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More wires!!! These go to the second row keyboard. |
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Pull these too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWFswXpqhR4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8-PlnJ3kkk&NR=1
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Sample board:
I though I could easily remove the keyboards by disconnecting the wires at the boards. Wrong...most wires were soldered to the boards and whet to multiple boards in the card cage. . |
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Another typical board. |
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Keyboard switches:
Ok so now all the keyboard switches need to be removed so I can take the keyboards off. |
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Ground wire..
Why am I pulling the keyboards?? I need to remove the wood board under the keyboards. |
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Lower keyboard removed! |
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Power switch on middle keyboard..start by removing that to get the second keyboard out. |
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Switches removed on second keyboard.. |
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Can't forget this thing... |
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Two keyboards removed! |
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The old Spring Reverb unit from the 1980s!
(This Organ was built in 1982) |
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Try to remove board.
Seems to be stuck.. |
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Foiled!
The foil tape inside was holding the board in place. The tape is critical to shielding the unit so it has to be replaced later. |
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Foil tape removed.
I removed the tape BUT ripped the shielding on the speaker shield... |
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Board removed!
Milestone reached. I got the wood keyboard base off! |
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Amplifier:
I removed the power supply/ amplifier to lighten the organ by another 25 lbs. |
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Removed the leslie unit.
The wheel is made from styrofoam. |
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Foot pedal assembly...got to go too! Another 15-20 pounds gone.. |
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Foot pedals sent walking... |
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The Guts!
So at this point my son had taken half the organ to the upstairs room. It was still pretty heavy but once we removed the circuit board card cage and the upper control boards we were ready to move it.
This part weighs about 35 pounds and is loaded with about 30 circuit boards. We propped it up on some boards to avoid damaging the circuit boards. |
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Extra Parts..(not yet!)
Here are some of the parts ready for assembly in the second floor room. |
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Stripped organ ready for the big move! |
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Moved!
Me and my Son and his Friend successfully got the organ into the second floor room! |
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Here are the steps we lugged it up. |
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I got down low to take the picture to make the steps look really high! |
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Small DoorwayDown the hallway and into the room over the garage.
We kind of had to stretch the two halves of the organ to make it fit through the door at an angle. We stretched it by about 1/2 inch and cleared the door. |
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The organ's new home!
(the room is under construction) |
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Assembly:
The front board was put back in. I used small sheet metal screws to re-attach the foil shielding. |
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We dropped the guts back in. |
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Rearanged the wires.
Ready for keyboards. |
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Inside assembly:
All the guts inside are now put back with all wires re-attached. |
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Keyboard installation. |
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Top cover:
I used more screws to reattach the foil. |
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Extra parts:
Ok I ended up with 4 extra screws! I have no idea where they go. |
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Reassembled!
Will it work????
Time for the Smoke Test!
(maybe I'll wait for my mother to turn it on...) |
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Thanks for taking a look at my project.
