--- In
korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "Gordon J. C. Pearce" <gordon@...>
wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 07:44 -0700, electrohead2000@... wrote:
> > I love it!!!!
> > I used to have an Akai s-1000 that needed regular "altitude
> > adjustments"
>
> Atari STs were good for that too. You also had to be careful to keep
> them level and not bump them if they'd been on all day, because the
> power supplies got hot enough to desolder a lot of the components. If
> you turned them upside down, the power transistors would drop out of
the
> board...
>
The trick works on devices with chips that are socketed, because heat
causes the chips to work their way out of their sockets, and dropping
it resets them. I think that anything hot enough to desolder a chip
would also destroy it. My ST gets hot, but hot enough to desolder
components? Sounds very far-fetched...