Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

--- 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...