[sdiy] Jameco/ OT>my MonoPoly's hilarious key movement work

[Bob Weigel]

Maybe...something's just on the 'fritz' there. :-).  I've never had 
problems with Jameco except briefly when I called in and they couldn't 
figure out their old part numbers....and it seems like if there's a 
problem to be had....
     BTW...my MonoPoly...I finally tore into the keyboard movement and 
discovered some new moments in do it yourself fixer upper technology 
:-).  Now I bought this thing under the ad from everexapandingdream that 
i was getting a mostly working board..just no lights but the functions 
worked.  I haven't been able to get a sound out of it most of the time 
though messing with the beer spilled board I did get a random bizarre 
appearance of the oscillators..or some of them...
   Anyway the keyboard...as I was investigating every detail to see why 
it might not be putting out clocks to the 4042 latch for LED's and the 
4174 ff that drives the gates.... I noticed that the response of the CPU 
inputs to keys being pressed was...bizarre and more analog than I'd 
expect :-).  I pulled the keyboard and it soaked up my whole evening.  
POS...the moron who worked on it used some kind of AIRPLANE GLUE or 
something that ate into the board basically and was a pain to 
remove...in necessary places..LIKE ALL OVER ONE OF THE CONTACTS!! Man.  
THERE is a prime piece of SYnth DIY work for ya :-). Oh but 
wait..there's more

1) they used the wrong contacts. I don't know where they threw the 
originals.  They're gone.
2) they used the glue to try to hold the oversized contacts down
3) they did away with ALL of the plastic spacers so that the board was 
probably touching contacts on metal, etc.

Coool.  I'm trying to ask the guy what "technician" performed this 
miracle cure..hehe...and what the contacts are out of since most of them 
are still good and maybe I can at least recoop some of my losses. Man.  
Anyway I've asked in the other group and Im getting no replies. btw Does 
ANYONE here know what might cause the two lines from the CPU not to 
clock the latch and FF circuits?  I've tried swapping the cpu from 
polysix and it works fine in the polysix but no change on the monopoly.  
I've swapped cpu sockets and cleaned rigorously under there.  And the 
4042 I've socketed and cleaned there and the rest of the board.  What a 
nightmare project that one turned out to be!  The guy was right who 
emailed me after I won the auction! How...did he know it was 'very 
broken'?? :-)  Strannnnge. Maybe he was the tech? :hehehe. -Bob

Tom Arnold wrote:

>On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 04:33:39PM -0600, Ian Fritz wrote:
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>>Jameco screwed me on my last order and won't answer email requests to get 
>>it fixed.
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>What email address are you using?  I've been in contact with them today in
>fact because they actually contacted me to let me know they'd found some
>more CA3080's ( which I bought ) and a few tubes of CA3280's ( oh yeah,
>bought those too ).  They're normally VERY responsive via email.
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