The end of the (upgrade) road?

[Tim]

Well it arrived from Japan without any import duty to pay. It took 8 days to arrive from the day I ordered it and the total cost was £115.18.

Looks in better shape than my current one, it's certainly newer . . hopefully it works too!

[CageyH]

Good to know.
My capacitor kit turned up today. I just need to plan when I fit them.

[CageyH]

I also ordered some new resistors so I can change the ones where there is a visible discolouration on the PCB.

[Tim]

Nice one - keep those old Techies alive I say.

I actually bought a new SL-1200 GR2 but decided to take it back and restore my 1210 instead. I was going to sell it . . . that would have been a big mistake. I didn't like the extra buttons around the pitch fader and those blue lights made my head hurt, really hated those. Can't quite put my finger on it, but it just didn't look right and selling my old one didn't feel like the right thing to do either.

[CageyH]

The resistors arrived today, so I took an hour off work, and the SL1200 is back up and running with 21 new capacitors as well as resistors R202 and R213 which I replaced with 1/2W versions, left proud of the board for better airflow, as the board was discoloured in this area.

The Capacitors were mainly Panasonic FM series, except for the six 1uF, which were WIMA Film Capacitors.
The resistors were Vishay Carbon 5% resistors - basically like for like, but going up to 1/2W from 1/4W. They were probably fine, but as they seem to have been getting warm, I changed them.

[Tim]

Good stuff - I used to be good with a soldering iron in my twenties, but now . . . not so much!

Glad to hear the 1200 is back in action.

[CageyH]

The printing on both sides makes the job pretty easy, as does having a good soldering iron.

[Tim]

The printing on both sides makes the job pretty easy, as does having a good soldering iron.

Were the caps and resistors easy to source? Now I have two main boards, I might be brave enough to try this myself, knowing I have a backup available.

[CageyH]

I ordered a kit through eBay for the capacitors.
I only changed the resistors as they were in a hot spot.

If you want the resistors, I have 19 of each left. Send me a PM and I will post a couple of each to you.
They are Vishay 5% Carbon.

[Tim]

Thanks for that, let me have a look for the kits and then if I think I might have a go, I'll get back to you.