# Restoring Minimoog #2182
**URL:** https://forum.moogmusic.com/t/restoring-minimoog-2182/23213
**Category:** Minimoog Forum
**Created:** [April 4, 2025, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.moogmusic.com/t/restoring-minimoog-2182/23213 "2025-04-04T20:01:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@cwhite](https://forum.moogmusic.com/u/cwhite)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2025, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.moogmusic.com/t/restoring-minimoog-2182/23213/1 "2025-04-04T20:01:20Z")
I worked at Moog for starting in Sept of. 1980 and held several positions while there. As they were ‘failing/downsizing’ one last time, I bought this Minimoog which was used as a test fixture on the assembly line. It didn’t including the case and keyboard. Don’t know what it was used for but some sort of testing. I bought a case and keyboard for it, put it together then began installing the same modifications that I had done for a session player when I worked in Chicago.
Life intervened and I bought a road case for it and stuck it in my garage. After retiring and then a couple years, I decided to get it back in working order. It’s going pretty well but I lost track of the schematic for a ‘perf’ board I added so have been reverse engineering that.
I wanted to join the forum and be able to post questions and also answer them if folks are interested.
I don’t have a schematic for the rectifier but it doesn’t have a silkscreen. It’s similar to p/n 980-041183 B but it has a bunch of wires that come into the board but aren’t shown on that schematic. Picture below.
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### Author:  [@torinkrell](https://forum.moogmusic.com/u/torinkrell)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2025, 8:55am UTC](https://forum.moogmusic.com/t/restoring-minimoog-2182/23213/2 "2025-07-03T08:55:30Z")
I wish to send you a belated welcome to the Moog Forum. Please share some stories about working at Moog in the 1980s - as well as obscure information and useful mods on vintage Moog gear!
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### Author:  [@analogmonster](https://forum.moogmusic.com/u/analogmonster)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2025, 6:06am UTC](https://forum.moogmusic.com/t/restoring-minimoog-2182/23213/3 "2025-07-04T06:06:31Z")
The same from me. What a project. Perhaps I can help concerning circuit details.
Some years ago I was asked to repair an original Moog 904B high pass filter module. For me it was touching a piece of the Holy Grail.
Find the whole story here:
[904B: Repair of a legend](https://www.analog-monster.de/repair_904B_en.html)
I wish I had the chance to work for Moog in that times.