Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

I've looked for some video of through hole pick and place machines but
have come up with nothing BUT, I do distinctly remember seeing pick and
place in the movie Koyaanisqatsi (which is in my top five best movies
of all time). Ironically, that movies was made in 1982. It seems 1982
was a very good year! Oh and for those who are interested, the story
about how they made Koyaanisqatsi is as interesting as the movie
itself. In some ways, hacking a Poly-800 is much like what Fricke and
Reggio did for the majority of their work in that film. Everything they
shot was done with old school camera/film hacking. That movie is truly
one a kind and is a far more moving experience than any of the digital
masterpieces of late. Interstellar being one of them - great movie!
Yet, Koyaanisqatsi remains a quintessential experience. I thoroughly
recommend it to anyone that has not seen it on the big screen. Do NOT
see it on a TV, not even an 80" flat. Koyaanisqatsi must be taken in as
a full cinema screen experience ONLY! Now where were we? Oh yeah, pick
and place machines! /Rant over.
"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."Wear eye protection! Breaking up those bakelite type sockets is an eye hazard!/MikeOn Mon, 2018-03-26 at 18:25 +0100, Gordonjcp gordon@...
[korgpolyex] wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 03:06:11AM +0000, Michael Hawkins korgpolyex8
> 00@... [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.
>