anyone have any experience unloading a semi-crappy organ for parts?

[erstevies]

I bought a mostly working Kimball Moonglow organ from goodwill for about 15 dollars with a friend and played it at his step dad's cabin for a little bit of time. I remember most things working on it. But his step dad move it outside under a big tent shed thing where I imagine it died quietly in the elements for a long time. I picked it up in and brought it home in my Cadillac trunk for it to be no longer working, which I was not surprised. It powered on but no audio came out of it though.

Rather than just curbing it, I would like to learn a good bit about electronics, parts, components, assembly with this organ.

At the very least, I think I would like to take the speaker and amp out of the organ and make a general use powered speaker.

Some other plans were to extract the drum machine in there and have that as free standing unit that would have an output jack. I enjoyed the drum machine part of this organ a lot, a good bit of beat genres that could be combined and adjusted with a tempo slider which i also really enjoyed.

Maybe would like to do something with the volume pedal, combine that with some guitar pedal components to get something weird.

Would take recommendations for other components and ideas to look for.

Again, I'm new to all of this so even any recommendations for supplies, approaches, anything, I'm all ears.

[ElectroWinder]

Generally with old electronic equipment it will be dried up or leaking electrolytic capacitors or a low/non existent power supply voltage on one of the power rails

You really need to find a free downloadable schematic/circuit diagram for the organ and a cheap digital multimeter to check things

Also invaluable is a cheap component tester such as https://www.amazon.co.uk/Transistor-...WL/ref=sr_1_24

Youtube is full of learn electronics videos

[Marshtech]

My friends with keyboards and organs tell me they can't give them away. I have a friend who got a 2 manual Lowry organ free from his church. He was into collecting a supply of tubes for his numerous guitar amps. The organ eventually went to the dump (but not before I asked him if there was a Leslie in it - there wasn't in that model).

[mozz]

Certain models, loaded with germanium transistors. Others, loaded with early silicon transistors. Both varieties are sought after for guitar pedal builds. Others still yet are loaded with rare chips that are obsolete, used in many synthesizers. Also usually a nice large color coded wiring harness. Besides that, tubes, speakers etc.

[nosaj]

i harvest speakers, transformers, bundles of wire(you can snip what you need for projects), switches, pilot lights, sometimes the wood. I don't worry about transistors, resistors, or caps.
i will also save output transistors like the sdk packages. i used to put out craigslist add for free pickup of organs. Of the tube organs I've made a champ, a kalamazoo one, tweed deluxe, and have a chassis to build a tweed bassman.
nosaj