Semi is the best kind of retired. On Thu, Feb 20, 2020, 4:13 PM <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:
> I claim to be able to play a little. But I also claim to be able to speak > Spanish, fly a helicopter and to levitate when inspired by the right guru > and the right drugs. > I have a fantasy of setting it up in our shop and blasting some Elton John > over 22,400 square feet of production floor. > I am semi retired and bored to death. It may happen. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Hohhof > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2020 3:00 PM > To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Pint of water > > If nobody at your house plays and you want to sell it, you can probably get > some good money for it. If the finish is beat up, just tell people it was > on tour with Deep Purple or something. > > Leslie I believe was a separate company but closely associated with Hammond > organs. > > -----Original Message----- > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2020 3:24 PM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Pint of water > > I think I may have the spinning speaker somewhere. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Hohhof > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2020 2:01 PM > To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Pint of water > > I think the B3 is the model that was prized by many rock bands and is also > featured on many studio albums of different genres. I've got some Kim > Richey albums which are semi-country and some of the songs have acoustic > guitar + Hammond organ. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnUDy5Fbkk4 > > Most people will think of House of the Rising Sun which was not a Hammond. > > But if you think of a famous rock song with an organ, it's probably a B3. > Nothing sounds like it, although I think they have programmed synthesizers > to mimic the sound. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2020 1:58 PM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Pint of water > > I think that the motor is a synchronous motor but no start winding. > I have not studied the theory of the different "stops" yet on how they > modify the signal from the tone wheels. > Mine has a really poor finish. Bad veneer. Not sure if I am ever going to > do something with it or not. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Prince > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2020 12:47 PM > To: af@af.afmug.com > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Pint of water > > My folks had a big Hammond that we sold with the estate sale after my > father > passed away. I think we had it since around 1967, and sold it around 2003. > It had a whole "start up" procedure, where you had to run a starter motor > for so many seconds before you turned on the main motor. I think this was > because the main motor had a flywheel that it couldn't spin from a dead > stop. > > The family was kind of surprised at how much the bids went up on it, as I > gather it had become somewhat of a collector's item. > > > bp > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > On 2/20/2020 10:58 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: > > I have a hammond but not the speaker amp. Someday I may finish that > > project. > > > > -----Original Message----- From: Ken Hohhof > > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2020 11:46 AM > > To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' > > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Pint of water > > > > I worked for Warwick Electronics in 1974-1975. They made TV sets for > > Sears and Kmart, and owned Thomas Organ which owned the rights and > > manufactured the Moog Synthesizer. > > > > My responsibilities were on the TV side, but think I saw the > > schematics once and I'm pretty sure it was a 100% analog design. No > > computers, beeps, or boops. > > > > Hammond was the one that used tonewheels to generate the frequencies > > and harmonics. Still no computers. Motors. > > > > Apparently now lots of things go bing-bing-bing: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgwr9r36zIU > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Bill Prince > > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2020 11:50 AM > > To: af@af.afmug.com > > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Pint of water > > > > Probably wouldn't work today. > > > > The Moog was invented when the first computers were leaking the beeps > > and boops. Today's computers are so well shielded that it would have > > made the invention of the Moog Synthesizer non-intuitive. > > > > > > bp > > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > > > On 2/20/2020 9:10 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: > >> My first lab standard was 1 one pound bar of a mixture of lead and > >> babbit I found in our farm shop. > >> I cast it and hammered it and shaved it until it weighed the same as > >> a pint of water. > >> I then took it through a metal detector at an airport. > >> This was right after DB Cooper and it was the first metal detector at > >> PDX. > >> I was certain that it could not detect non ferrous metals. I was right. > >> Told the kids at school, the teacher called BS and I bought the bar > >> to school. Teacher still called BS. > >> But in those days teachers told me things like "when an atomic > >> reactor operates, it gives off particles. They collect those > >> particles in a container. Atomic bombs are those containers and they > >> break them open when they want to unleash the bomb". Another gem > >> from the same > >> (science) teacher "when computers operate they make beeps and boops. > >> Some figured out how to make those beeps and boops in a controlled > >> fashion and that is what a Moog synthesizer is". > >> > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- From: Ken Hohhof > >> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2020 9:40 AM > >> To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' > >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Battery heater mat > >> > >> Heat actually doesn't rise. > >> > >> Hot air or liquid will rise due to lower density, assuming it is free > >> to rise while denser fluids sink. So it might be true in a flooded > >> battery but not an AGM battery. > >> > >> Also not true: > >> > >> A pint's a pound. > >> Ground is ground the world around. > >> Lightning never strikes the same place twice. > >> > >> Can't even trust righty tighty lefty loosey, witness twist ties on > >> stuff from China and even some Cat5 cable. > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Bill Prince > >> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2020 10:09 AM > >> To: af@af.afmug.com > >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Battery heater mat > >> > >> It probably would depend on the enclosure and/or whether there is > >> insulation around the rest of the battery. If the battery has an > >> insulation blanket around it, the heat from the heat mat should > >> propagate through the entire battery. Heat does rise. > >> > >> > >> bp > >> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > >> > >> On 2/20/2020 8:05 AM, Adam Moffett wrote: > >>> If you get those heater mats under the battery will you have a > >>> temperature gradient where the battery is warmer on the bottom than > >>> the top? Will that hurt anything? > >>> > >>> Suppose the charger has a temperature probe as well. My instinct is > >>> to tape it to the same top post as the thermostat probe. I figure > >>> the lead post tells me more about the temp inside the battery, and > >>> if they're on the same post then the charger and heater are working > >>> off the same assumption. Is that reasonable or would you do it > differently? > >>> > >>> I may be at risk of fussing over details that don't matter much, but > >>> it's in my nature I guess. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> -- > >> AF mailing list > >> AF@af.afmug.com > >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > >> > >> > >> > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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