[sdiy] Tin Whiskers

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Tuesday 11 January 2005 11:44 pm, The Peasant wrote:
>  > any suggestions for suppressing whisker growth?
>
> NO NO NO NO! You should *encourage* whisker growth, it's what gives that
> vintage equipment it's special sound characteristics! (Not to mention those
> *special* reliability characteristics). The unique inductive/capacitive
> networks that are created by years of tin whisker building create a truly
> analogue and fractal electrical response; no two Minimoogs sound quite the
> same.

Gee,  and all this time I thought it was those wire-wound "calibration" 
pots...