This Access Virus Rack was continuously restarting when power was connected. This is apparently a common issue with the Access Virus and is due to a capacitor in the power supply going bad. In this video I replace said capacitor. I didn’t have to do any real troubleshooting here as there were various references to…
I have a Yamaha RM1x where some of the buttons were quite bad. I decided to replace all of them while I had it open. A couple of the encoder and the volume cap was missing so I replaced these also. The soft buttons were Omten D3XJ and I bought these from a vendor on…
This Korg Poly-800 Mk1 had suddenly started to behave oddly. If it made any sounds at all they were inconsistent and random. This would indicate that the memory is corrupt due to a bad battery. As I understand it there was no internal battery mounted in all of the Kort Poly-800 Mk1, they required batteries…
It is time to build the E-Licktronic Nava, the Roland TR-909 clone! I’ve had the kit and a metal case for several years but I haven’t actually started building it. So about a month ago I ordered the remaining components from Mouser. In this video I solder and test the power supply. Nothing exceptional here;…
In this Yocto several of the distances/spacers used to screw the PCB to the front of the machine had been broken off. Some of them were loose when I got the case and some of them broke off due to stress when screwing them in. Here I glue these back using epoxy glue
Cleaning some oxide/gunk in the instrument switches of a Roland TR-808. Initial cleanup using air duster to get anything loose out of there. Then using some IPA and finishing off with some DeOxit.
I have a Benq w1060 projector (which is about 8yrs old) which had severe issues with parts of the projected screen having lighter areas. It also projected light outside of the screen area. I decided switch out the light bulb as it was near the end-of-life accouring to the number of hours it had been…