[HAM] Hey Kon!

[Scott Hawthorn]

At 08:15 AM 10/5/2007, John Freund wrote:
>[snip]
>If you want to make a potential problem worse, then over-react to it -
>raising children, international relations, etc., and organ repair.
>
>No two ways about it, any organ that has foam in it has gooey-foam by now
>that has been pressed into the resistance wires.  That part of the damage is
>done.  But whether it needs to be removed really depends on the particular
>organ.
>
>Does the organ exhibit problems?  No?  Then play it. In this case,
>prophylaxis will do little for you.  You can choose to lose sleep worrying
>about it or you can lose sleep dealing with it.
>
>Although foam may eat thru the resistance wires, there is a very real
>possibility/probability of BREAKING them in the process of cleaning that
>crap out of there - just by opening the manual.
>
>It's a big PITA whether you do it now or later.  Do it later, you might not
>even own the organ by the time symptoms show up.  And that's not a "leave it
>for the next guy" mentality - anyone who's bought a vintage car knows what
>I'm talking about. The ways to determine if an organ has this crap is well
>documented and anyone buying one knows the score, or should.  And the next
>owner might not see problems either.
>
>That being said, if you have some OTHER reason to yank your organ apart,
>like a broken actuator, or you're doing a case transplant, etc.; you might
>consider it at that point.
>
>And of course, if there's a problem related to foam and you just can't deal,
>fix it or sell it.

It's so refreshing to see some common sense injected here. You wrote far 
more than I was willing to put into this. I said it before, I'll say it 
again. If gooey foam hasn't damaged the manuals by now, it's probably not 
going to in the future. The risk of further damage by doing this operation 
is quite high. Did the original poster say that he has contact problems? I 
have lost track of that post. If not, he should leave it alone. And the 
solution to this "problem" is to plunk another manual in there-- far easier 
and ultimately more cost-effective.