Vintage Synth Repair

thanks, that's great to know.
-J

--- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, "synthparts" <synthparts@...> wrote:
>
> Hi, if you decide you want to replace the whole CPU board with a
> working one, I have one.
> 
> Doug
> www.synthparts.com
> 
> --- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, "jamesguitar2000"
> <jamie@> wrote:
> >
> > thank you mike and duncan...
> > i indeed had the problem of "crap on my CPU" (to use a technical
> term) thanks to an 
> > overzealous confetti operator at a new year's show at hammerstein
> ballroom a couple 
> > years back. i thought i had cleaned it all out. maybe i hadn't... i
> will recheck the options 
> > you guys have given me.
> > -J
> > 
> > --- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, "duncan" <ferrograph@> wrote:
> > >
> > > jamie,
> > > mike's advice is good- this is the same problem that caused the
> > > infamous "insane" behaviour in early/unmodified moog source units; in
> > > that case, the series regs were not soldered at all, but sat loosely
> > > in a connector. removing this & soldering them in place would cure the
> > > moog but meant exercising extra care when removing the case for other
> > > surgery.
> > > it's possible you may have CPU problems though- I have had a 106 in
> > > bits that lost it's mind after "liquid ingress"; the board around the
> > > CPU is quite sensitive & it may just need a clean to remove something
> > > that's deposited there & is "C-shunting" across some CPU connections;
> > > anything that can be carried in the air can settle on a pcb & cause
> > > this, especially if there's dry-ice or smoke involved... :-)
> > > 
> > > duncan.
> > >
> >
>