Vintage Synth Repair

--- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, "Roy J. Tellason" 
<rtellason@...> wrote:
>
> > Followed the tuning calibration document and still have tuning 
issues
> > and have discovered it is the power switch... When wiggling the 
power
> > switch it will change tune... I removed the switch and soaked it 
in
> > electrical cleaner and resoldered it to find no change...
> 
> If you flex the switch and got that symptom and then changed it out 
and still 
> get it,  then the switch isn't the problem.  I didn't think it 
would be,  
> actually.
> 
> What's happening is that you're flexing the board,  and that's 
affecing 
> something else.  From the stuff I snipped it sounds to me like that 
> particular instrument was pretty sadly abused,  so you may need to 
look 
> further before you nail the problem.
> 
> A good strong light,  maybe a magnifying glass or a pair of reading 
glasses,  
> and some patience and you'll probably be able to track that down.
> 
> -- 
> Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
> ablest -- form of life in this section of space,  a critter that can
> be killed but can't be tamed.  --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet 
Masters"
> -
> Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by 
lies. --James 
> M Dakin
>
Thanks Roy I'll go with your recommendation and see where it takes 
me...

bri.