oh give me a break! don't drive your car through a river. it may not operate well afterwards.... also.....never use your sythesizer in a vat of lacquer thinner.....and if you can't handle this.....sell it to me for a small price...: )
--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "mettalliccasucks" <mickey___mouse___@...> wrote:
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> > All stuff and nonsense. The horror stories are not as prevelant as
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> If only that were true.
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> My tron was great for several years, and during that time I couldn't believe all the horror stories I read on the internet. I laughed at the Streetly sticker on the inside of the tron advising when the next scheduled maintenance should be. It's been so reliable and simple to maintain, what could possibly go wrong that can't be fixed?
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> Then one summer night I felt the humidity increase as the winds came from the south and almost immediately a note disappeared. Then other notes started warbling, and one by one the play time of each note decreased until it stopped altogether. The tapes weren't rewinding properly. Not just one or two tapes that needed adjustment. All the tapes, and all at once.
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> Since then no amount of cleaning or adjusting the 70 pinch roller/pressure pad screws can make the tron fully reliable. I thought things might improve in the winter when humidity decreases, but NO.
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> The problem is the tapes. They have over-indulged on the humidity and the water molecules have bound to the polymers in the tape. The tape characteristics have changed and now they won't flow properly through the tron. What was previously a workable design is now unworkable.
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> I tried a different tape frame, one that had been sealed away to protect it from humidity. It worked for a while and the same thing happened. The workable turned into unworkable. In the circumstances, it's a waste of money trying to fix a problem that's inherent in the design and cannot be eliminated.
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> I now stare at the tron with bad intent, wondering what it would look like in the dump.
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> It's made me a firm believer in all the internet tronlore.
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