Hammond l-133 Pitch is low

[SLowery]

My son and I picked up a Hammond l 133 and it is in excellent condition. What we noticed was that the tone is a little flat. Talking to a Gent that just reconditioned our Fender Rhodes 75 suggested that it may be one of two possible reasons. One being the run capacitor and the other being the tone generator needs oiling. Well we picked up OEM oil and gave it two caps full and no results. I then picked up a new run Cap and went to install it and the motor has been swapped out at some time, The OEM motor is a three wire unit with the cap. What we have is a two wire with no cap. I wired the new cap in just to make my son think I'm doing something but I new this was not an answer. What I did notice is that the OEM motor runs at 1800 RPM and the motor that is installed runs at 1500 RPM. Could this be the problem? The tone generator spins free with no hesitation.

Any suggestions would be greatly appriciated.

Thanks for your help

Scott

[Clarion]

Sounds like the speed difference you would expect from running a 60 cycle motor on 50 cycles. ?

[SLowery]

I don't follow. Both motors are 115 x 60 cycles. Could it be the RPM?

Thanks for the reply

[Jlw]

[quote user="SLowery"]

I don't follow. Both motors are 115 x 60 cycles. Could it be the RPM?

Thanks for the reply

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Yes.

[SLowery]

I'm taking a shot at this one. I found one on ebay Hopefully it'll run.

Check this sophomore group out. A kid nuts with his Hammond.

http://www.youtube.com/user/0neAfter.../6/jLe5qkXZgTc