Re: [AH] SH-101 slider replacements

From Florian Anwander
Sent Fri, Jun 29th 2018, 07:16

Hi

Am 29.06.2018 um 03:54 schrieb Brian Willoughby:
> It’s a bit of a Catch-22. You have to heat up the pads to desolder them, but heating up the pads can separate them from the board. On top of that, these vintage synths were made as cheaply as possible, so they’re more likely to suffer a copper pad separating from the board.
I replaced the full fadersets at around 5 or 8 SH-101s (back when 
TechTransplant still did sell them) - I never had an issue with the 
solder pads. Other brands and later Roland synths: yes, but not with the 
early Roland pcbs.


Florian