Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

I have a guy in Hollywood CA who has repaired 2 of my Simmons brains 
for about $100.00.  He doesnt even charge for a diagnosis (free 
estimate of repair cost).  He 's great and very reasonably priced and 
has access to replacement parts.
E mail me ( cssappliance@...) and I can give you his name 
address phone and e mail if you are interested.
good luck
Scooter
--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "mookinx <mookinx@y...>" 
<mookinx@y...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I writing on behalf of a friend who has an SDS 9 kit.
>  The Drums and controller have been stored in a loft for about 14 
> years in a relativly dry enviroment. He recently took the drums out 
> to see if they still worked but after hearing some distorted sounds 
> the unit eventually made no sound at all. The circutboard appears 
to 
> be OK with no signs of errosion.
>  Could it be (not surpprisingly) that the internal battery is dead? 
> The fact that it made some sounds which eventually died away makes 
us 
> think that the small white disk(the battery?) is kaput. Or is it 
more 
> likely to be somthing fatal like the circuitboard or ROM chips 
being 
> damaged and we can't see where the damage is?
>  Is it too much to hope that he could replace a component and have 
> those wonderfull sounds back or is 14 years of storage just too 
much 
> for the poor thing.
> 
> I would be very greatfull for any feed back, even some abuse for 
> having left the thing alone for so long. I haven't had much luck 
> finding info about Simmons on the web.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> mike