Re: [Harp-L] Seydel rotary tuning tool sucked into vacuum cleaner

[Joseph Leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Jan 2, 2013, at 4:49 PM, David Payne wrote:

> I've got one of those Seydel rotary tuning tools that I've been using to tune for years. It's basically a hand-held device that you plug into the wall, which is awesome. I hate cordless tools, because they are such a pain in the rear, batteries going dead on me and whatnot. 
> But, after all these years of dutiful service, an one errant, fatal sweep of a vacuum cleaner, the wires got sucked up into the vacuum and tore the wire out of its DC power supply (the thing at the other end that plugs in). 
> They cost $70 and this one had been a faithful tool, I'd gotten probably more than a thousand hours of use out of it... So I took apart the power supply and tried to solder it back onto the circuit board, but it wouldn't work. I looked for the short on the board and could not find it. 
> 
> The tool itself, minus its power supply, is bascially a motor and a switch. Finally, I realized I had this Radio Shack 12-volt power supply, smaller than the big ones they had back in the 1970s and 80s, but the kind that you put on a desk and run radios from. I just stripped the end of the wires and put them in the spring-clip terminals on the back. 
> 
> At first, the tuning tool ran and would not turn off, unless i shut off power to it. Then I had the bright idea of reversing polarity. Works like a charm now. 
>  
> David Payne
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