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Re: [PolySix] Battery leakage

2000-08-03 by dhuggins

Heh PolySixers,
	
	Old Crow does excellent work, he made my long lost P6 work after 7 years
of silence.  I was (and still am) a happy man.


			Dave

	


At 03:57 PM 8/2/00 -0400, you wrote:
>
>On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Rich Grasso wrote:
>
>> Was wondering if anyone has had to bring in their P6 for service due
>> to the infamous battery leakage problem.
>
>  Just about all P6s are now, if it has not already been done, in dire
>need of a new battery.  I've repaired about 35 KLM-367 boards (the one
>with the battery on it that takes most of the corrosion damage) to date.
>
>> Mine has started to show symptoms of the problem so I was wondering if
>> it's repairable and how much I should expect to pay...
>
>  Unless the damage is really severe, just about any P6 can be repaired
>due to the battery for about $10 in parts and $50-$100 in labor, depending
>on who fixes it.  (Of course if you can repair boards yourself, it becomes
>much cheaper).
>
>  If you want an idea of what to expect in term of the repair itself, have
>a look here:
>
>http://www.oldcrows.net/~oldcrow/synth/korg/polysix/repair.html
>
>  Cheers,
>
>   Crow, who needs to put the Trident MkII repair pages online one of
>these days...
>
>/**/
>
>
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