My crazy HP 15c repair

[johnb]

By the way, @hb9fsx, I wanted to thank you for your bravery in tackling this project.

So far your results look beautiful!

I am a big believer that we, as a community, should be doing everything we can to prevent these machines from going to the dump heap. There were only a finite number of each model made, and even though some of them are still plentiful, their numbers will only continue to decrease, not increase.

Let's learn from other people's hard lessons... back in the 1920's, nearly EVERY movie theatre in the United States had a theatre organ of some sort --- most of them very limited and unimpressive instruments, but a lot of big, impressive ones as well. There were thousands! It wasn't until old theatres started getting torn down in the 1960's and 70's -- with their instruments still in them! -- that volunteers sat up and took notice and started trying to save these remarkable machines.

Now there are only a few hundred theatre organs left.

Save the HP's! Save the HP's!