On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 03:06:11AM +0000, Michael Hawkins
korgpolyex800@... [korgpolyex] wrote:
> Put those two factors together and I would say that most if not all of the Poly's were indeed hand made. At most, maybe some parts were populated by a machine. But I doubt it.
Back in the 1980s I had a school holidays job assembling PCBs at the
electronics company my dad worked for. We built up roughly
eurocard-sized PCBs in a jig, which were using similar technology to the
Poly 800 - pick-and-place is hard with through-hole parts! That was all
hand-built, back then.
As for getting the EPROM socket off the board, don't bother trying to
use a solder sucker or braid to get it off. Just chop it up, take it
out in pieces, and then use the braid to clean up the excess solder.
Sockets are cheap.
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Gordonjcp