FAIRLIGHT CMI IIX
2005-11-04 by kar_chicago
Anyone know a place to get parts for this? Mine doesn't have MIDI (CMI 28/29 card). Wouldn't mind getting those. Also nice to know of a place in case anything goes wrong.
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FAIRLIGHT CMI IIX
RE: [vintagesynthrepair] FAIRLIGHT CMI IIX
2005-11-04 by Brian Davies
The one thing that comes to mind is something you can only get with many years hands on experience - that is experience! After 50 years in the industry - servicing everything from keyboards to guitar amps to guitars and anything else that has valves or chips I reckon I'm just about clued up on many jobs but I still learn something new almost every day. I did five keyboards on Monday and three more yesterday. Today I shall be looking into at least two more in the workshop and I have three more out in the field to go and sort out. You really need a formal education in electronics, you also need a mentor to guide you in the early days. You need to be able to interpret what you 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. You won't learn this in ten minutes. As far as oscilloscopes are concerned they are easy to use, but your problem is to interpret what you see and this takes a great understanding of the workings of electronic equipment. I'd say unless you are prepared to devote thousands of hours to study the industry you would be better-off gigging to earn enough to let the professional do your servicing. Sorry to be so negative. Regards Brian G3OYU _____
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Re: [vintagesynthrepair] FAIRLIGHT CMI IIX
2005-11-04 by Dale Kay
not wanting to sound mean
"Can anyone here tell me how to be a brain surgeon in 10
minutes?"
you can't bypass experience.. you can ask for help and
some suggestions, the group here will try to help you...
fully concur with Brian, and he is really not being
negative, just being real...
take it slow, ask and if you can, find someone in your
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----- Original Message -----From: Brian DaviesSent: Friday, November 04, 2005 12:25 AMSubject: RE: [vintagesynthrepair] FAIRLIGHT CMI IIXThe one thing that comes to mind is something you can only get with many years hands on experience that is experience! After 50 years in the industry servicing everything from keyboards to guitar amps to guitars and anything else that has valves or chips I reckon Im just about clued up on many jobs but I still learn something new almost every day.
I did five keyboards on Monday and three more yesterday. Today I shall be looking into at least two more in the workshop and I have three more out in the field to go and sort out.
You really need a formal education in electronics, you also need a mentor to guide you in the early days. You need to be able to interpret what you 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.
You wont learn this in ten minutes.
As far as oscilloscopes are concerned they are easy to use, but your problem is to interpret what you see and this takes a great understanding of the workings of electronic equipment.
Id say unless you are prepared to devote thousands of hours to study the industry you would be better-off gigging to earn enough to let the professional do your servicing.
Sorry to be so negative.
Regards
Brian G3OYU
Re: [vintagesynthrepair] FAIRLIGHT CMI IIX
2005-11-04 by Roy J. Tellason
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? :-) <...> > Sorry to be so negative. I'd call it being realistic. -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"