[sdiy] bit one

[greg montalbano]

At 09:26 PM 2/6/04 +0100, Rude 66 wrote:

>well, it's not somtething i'd start doing to all my synths immediately, but
>if it's reasonably sure that's the problem..i'd do it. it's drying now from
>a good cleaning..;-)
>
>additional question: what do you replace? only the plastic bit with the pins
>that the connector slides onto? or the cable itself? the ones on the bit are
>all soldered to the board on one side.

Once again, depends on how far you want to go (an what replacement parts 
you have access to).


>would this same dirty contact story also apply to socketed chips?

Definitely!  One of the bigger headaches on my Prophet 600 was the cheesy 
tin sockets Sequential used -- replacing those made all the problems disappear.

~GMM