[sdiy] I fixed my MC-202!!!!

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Good work!  And on a piece of gear you didn't build yourself.  I find most
of my problems are a result of my soldering, even though I try to do it
right.  That's why I have a loupe.

mark verbos <mverbos at earthlink.net> wrote:
>Hi everybody,
>
>I bought an MC-202 in 1993. It was still in the box. Sometime around 
>1996 it started to have this problem. The screen would show crazy chaos 
>like the watch the beast wears in Predator. If I leaned on the tempo 
>knob, the screen would go back to normal. I tried in vain on several 
>occasions to fix it.
>
>Today I found that there was a hairline crack in the solder UNDER one 
>leg of the 64 pin microprocessor. When I had tested before, I put the 
>meter probe on top of it, pushing the leg into the solder. So I didn't 
>notice it. I fixed it!!!!!!!!!!
>
>Then I put it all the way together again and some of the buttons had 
>stopped working. It seems I cracked one of the ribbon cables when I 
>flipped it over so many times. This was a quick fix though.
>
>EVERYTHING WORKS NOW>
>
>Mark
>
>PS. This is not the first thing I've fixed, it has just taken the longest.
>

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