DX7

Accidentally bought a rather sad Yamaha DX7 off e-bay as a non functioning, "for parts" unit. I don't think that there is too much wrong with it and it did come with a spare cover & LCD display. I have stripped it down and started cleaning it up. This has included sandblasting the base which looked a bit like it had been dragged down the road behind a car… I plan to get it powered-coated this week and then start to get all the bits back into it...

Paper Hellfire

This is a bit old but it shows the transformer...

Timber!

A very long time between drinx! Not really sure where the last year has gone but hopefully things will start to crank back into action over then next few months... This is a start... The local council verge collection yielded a new keyboard for Forbin from a Kawai MR270 electronic piano. It is rather nice as being wood, nicely balanced and weighted. The electronics is shot but an AVR doing the scanning and a MIDI feed and we are back in business with 88 keys of goodness!

Brown Turds

I have used what has been euphemistically referred to as Brown Turd capacitors on the Hellfire board. I had to laugh when I saw then called that at a local website, Evatco. The pace is slowly picking up after the holiday. I didn't really plan for Nick to be peering at you through the wires it just turned out that way...

Hellfire Front Panel

Slowly getting there... Off on holiday in a couple of days so this won't get finished for a while... did stuff up the hole for the switch...

Power Supply of Doom!

This is my dual 6V transformer. It was actually cheaper than one... Not really as neat but does the job. Got the LFO to arc up -- three more valves to go! Probably need the front panel to be in place for safety before we go too much further...

Thar she Glows!

Well got the rectifier going! It's a start anyway... only 4 more to sort out!