Mike Barden

Technics loud speakers for sale – not on ebay

Mike — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:40:25 +0000

Technics loud speakers for sale

EAST20PL02A or EAST20PL02A6 20 cm 6 ohms bass speaker e.g. PR902 £60

EAS15S09A 13 x 6 cm 8 ohms mid-range speaker £20

EAS65PH31A or EAS65PH31A3 6.5 cm 8 ohms tweeter £10

Prices exclude postage

Roland FP8 88-note stage piano – all new hammers – not on ebay

Mike — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:36:19 +0000

Roland FP8 88-note stage piano – 88 new hammers, all properly greased
“Properly” means all 352 greasing points have been done using the correct grease.
For the record, that’s nearly £400 worth of hammers and grease!

Main board repaired and tested. All the SMT capacitors have been replaced.

Fully operational

Condition – obviously well used. Colour – grey.

No accessories, no stand or music rest or pedal

Collect only – £750 o.n.o.

Not that you’d really need it but the Owners Manual can be downloaded
from Roland U.S website www.rolandus.com

Leslie tremolo unit – 2 speed – Rotosonic wooden drum – not on ebay

Mike — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:37:46 +0000

Internal unit. Strongly made in wood. Will stand by itself but needs some sort of covering to make it look smart and also for electrical and physical safety

Could be made into a guitar leslie speaker tremolo effect unit.

Leslie part number 820308E. EMI number 518102

Full-size motors as in the early Leslie Tone Cabinets – 117 volt 50/60 Hz motors
Motor bearings feel free i.e. not siezed but will no doubt need oiling

Wooden Rotosonic drum with 9″ x 5″ loud speaker and Mercotac mercury connector.
Axis of rotation is horizontal, not vertical, so motors lie horizontally

Proper Leslie fabric covered belt

This unit also has a speed control circuit board fitted.
This should allow mains switching between the motors to be controlled by a low voltage.
Might have the info somewhere but will only hunt for this for the buyer.

Collect only – too heavy to post – £100

No guarantee in view of age

EME-213 floppy disk drive units FDD repairs

Mike — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:13:20 +0000

EME213 disk drive

This is used in various Technics pianos, keyboards and organs and in some other makes like Korg and Yamaha.

I don’t sell these but can usually repair them. If not, I can usually modify a standard drive to work. This is more expensive because it takes a lot longer. The standard drive has different connectors so I have to provide these and hand-wire them to the disk drive connector or interface board / pcb.

Repair cost depends on the amount of work
Could be anywhere from £60 to £160 + p&p costs

Korg 01/W FD with new backlight (EL panel) for sale – not on ebay

Mike — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:14:13 +0000

Good condition. Was all working OK when I last tested it.
When I have a buyer I’ll check it all through again.

The EL backlights in many old Korg synths have either died by now or
become very difficult to read because the display is dim or faded.

I fitted a new replacement backlight and the display is easy to read now.

Collect only – am not risking posting this!

Price £250

No bag or case

Owner’s manual can be downloaded here

http://www.korg.co.uk/support/downloads/01wfd_dl.php

Replacement backlights are likely to be needed for any of the older Korgs like M1, M1R, 01/W, 01/W FD, 01R/W, T2, T3, i3 and Wavestations. Roland and Yamaha synths of this age also suffer from the same problem. Typically Roland D50, D70, Yamaha W5, W7.

Getting to the display is not easy in most synths. Fitting a new EL panel can be a bit of a fiddle (and usually needs quick, accurate soldering) but it’s nothing like as difficult as getting to the display in the first place. The display is usually the last thing you get to having completely disembowelled the synth. Definitely not a job for anyone. You need to be the sort of person who is really, really good at taking things apart – very methodically – and getting everything back together perfectly in a piece of equipment you’ve never seen before. I can do this for you. I do this sort of work all the time for a living.