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Controlling Rewind Speed of Electrified Player
By Dale Gunnar 

I have used old vacuum cleaner motors to power several organs, lowering
the speed (and noise) with small variable transformers, available for
a few dollars by catalog orders from surplus suppliers.  This is much
more efficient (and cooler) than using a resistor and you can adjust
the voltage by trial to the exact need.  Several such small variable
transformers are offered on eBay right now.

Dale Gunnar
Corpus Christi, Texas

(Message sent Fri 23 Mar 2007, 12:59:12 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

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