Vintage Synth Repair

On Friday 04 November 2005 03:25 am, Brian Davies wrote:
> see, what you hear, what you touch and what you  smell.  Yes even the
> latter. Burn ups for instance, different types of component smell different
> when they over heat and you need to be able to recognize this.  I can open
> up a cabinet where a burn up has happened and I can pin down the type of
> component just by the smell.

Nothing like the smell of a selenium rectifier that's cut loose,  eh?  :-)

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> Sorry to be so negative.

I'd call it being realistic.

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