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Neil Purling · 20th Nov 2015, 7:57 am

Miller didn't use Hunts Mouldseals or waxed paper capacitors in that thing, did they? That sounds really stupid. An instrument of such complexity surely demanded components of a much higher spec than the normal stuff available to the radio & TV makers, especially when the environment in the cabinet was going to get rather hot.
By your comments it sounds like whatever components Miller used its various faults could be down to the need of a lot of urgent component replacement. OK, so it needs a lot of out of tolerance capacitors and resistors replacing. Will any re-cap need custom made components in the way that someone restoring a Novachord has to?
Then somebody checks the valves on a tester and wishes they hadn't.............

20th Nov 2015, 7:57 am	#20
Neil Purling Nonode Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Hull, East Yorkshire, UK. Posts: 2,085	Re: 193 valves in 5 days - rescuing the Miller Classic IV organ Miller didn't use Hunts Mouldseals or waxed paper capacitors in that thing, did they? That sounds really stupid. An instrument of such complexity surely demanded components of a much higher spec than the normal stuff available to the radio & TV makers, especially when the environment in the cabinet was going to get rather hot. By your comments it sounds like whatever components Miller used its various faults could be down to the need of a lot of urgent component replacement. OK, so it needs a lot of out of tolerance capacitors and resistors replacing. Will any re-cap need custom made components in the way that someone restoring a Novachord has to? Then somebody checks the valves on a tester and wishes they hadn't.............