Vintage Synth Repair

Lastly a situation that makes my blood boil are the people (mostly again 
young) who through their upbringing in the "throw away society" take a 
perfectly good piece of gear, hack it and bash it beyond recognition for the 
sake of "circuit bending". Fine take a ten buck toy and thrash the guts out 
of it, but not old analogue gear!! I've read up on most of the websites 
relating to these endeavors and it's
my point of view that the vast majority of ppl into it no zero about the 
electronic's they are dealing with. They tend to use a poke it and see 
mentality which may work some of the time. I shudder at the thought the 
damage being done to some much good gear. Not only at the circuit level but 
to the hardware (casing, front panel etc) as they hack away.

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Totally agree with this. In some cases the "kids" may then take an interest 
in electronics, but so much gear gets totally trashed this way.

GB