Vintage Synth Repair

Hi, if you decide you want to replace the whole CPU board with a
working one, I have one.

Doug
www.synthparts.com

--- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, "jamesguitar2000"
<jamie@...> wrote:
>
> thank you mike and duncan...
> i indeed had the problem of "crap on my CPU" (to use a technical
term) thanks to an 
> overzealous confetti operator at a new year's show at hammerstein
ballroom a couple 
> years back. i thought i had cleaned it all out. maybe i hadn't... i
will recheck the options 
> you guys have given me.
> -J
> 
> --- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, "duncan" <ferrograph@> wrote:
> >
> > jamie,
> > mike's advice is good- this is the same problem that caused the
> > infamous "insane" behaviour in early/unmodified moog source units; in
> > that case, the series regs were not soldered at all, but sat loosely
> > in a connector. removing this & soldering them in place would cure the
> > moog but meant exercising extra care when removing the case for other
> > surgery.
> > it's possible you may have CPU problems though- I have had a 106 in
> > bits that lost it's mind after "liquid ingress"; the board around the
> > CPU is quite sensitive & it may just need a clean to remove something
> > that's deposited there & is "C-shunting" across some CPU connections;
> > anything that can be carried in the air can settle on a pcb & cause
> > this, especially if there's dry-ice or smoke involved... :-)
> > 
> > duncan.
> >
>