You can do them all at once, or do them one at a time as they fail. I'm starting to re-e-cap my Wurlitzer 4500 from the same era that hardly makes a noise. Most of the electronic parts are very generic and can be bought at any big supply house. Fortunately the 605 is built with discrete parts that can be replaced by ordinary mortals without surgeon telescope glasses. Maybe the previous owner had some service work done and you won't have to do those particular e-caps, although servicemen usually replace just a few parts per service call. At $50, you are not wasting any money, the Wurlitzers have very reliable key and pedal contacts for example. After they warm up, the water evaporates out.
These are water fillled aluminum cans with rubber seals that deteriorate over 20-30 years. They have electrolytic capacitors in them, just like an old TV or radio. Fortunately the extreme wurlitzer type vibrato can be turned off.įrequently organs that haven't been played in fifteen or twenty years, sound great at the resale, but go faint or dead in a couple of weeks of real use. I bought mine to do classical music, also. Most Wurlitzers are considered more a 'Theater organ' than a classic organ, although I had never heard of a theater organ until after I bought one.
