[sdiy] Another cat pee mystery solved, Juno 106

[Bob Weigel]

I hold my nose in as I think of this one.  Someone in a forum earlier 
ased "What is a clear sign that the devil is at work?"  I posted this

http://cu.imt.net/~sounddoctorin/devilwrk.jpg

Remember..they only look nice and furry to stealth their way into such 
opportunities :-) -Bob
PS feel free to modify this for your own purposes.  I was torn between 
shovel and pitchfork of course.

Metrophage wrote:

>My son isn't the only one who has loved my Juno, evidently. The key
>scanning logic appeared to be fine, and Bob Weigel suggested it was the
>key traces. I did not want to disassemble the keyboard! It wasn't too
>difficult to do. It turned out that my parent's crazy cat had peed into
>the edge of the keyboard, and the urine was corroding traces from the
>board. A few jumpers later and it was fine. Now it is also very clean
>and rust-free. I scrubbed, sanded, enameled, re-taped the entire
>keyboard frame. Good as ever!
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>That cat has caused me a lot of trouble, I'm still finding damage to
>repair. If she ever tried that when one of these bits of gear were on,
>maybe she would have been zapped out of the habit. Story has it that
>since she was spayed that this behavior ceased.
>
>Still a few mod ideas bouncing around, and research to do.
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