ROSS KELLY: All right. A lot of these older synths in general that use things like Curtis chips, well the chips start failing and they don’t make them anymore so that’s a big problem. You have to start sourcing the chips and, you know, there’s people out there who have stockpiles of these techs, but sometimes techs don’t want to give this stuff up because that’s their livelihood. So, if they don’t have the parts to fix the synths that they specialize in, then, you know, they’re out of business, which is understandable. I recently bought an Oberheim OB-8 which needs some new potentiometers. It uses a special type of potentiometer that only [INDISCERNIBLE] not only but like most commonly found in those Oberheims, so I basically had to find somebody who had a scrap OB-8 to sell me parts, and the same thing goes for this with the chips like if you can find somebody who has chips and they’re less than, you know, $50 each, then you should probably buy a few just to have backups.

All right. So we now have one jack installed. It looks like hole-wise a little uneven but good enough.

[ROSS KELLY DRILLING HOLES ON THE BACK PANEL OF THE SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS PROPHET 5]

The only thing I had to replace really inside of it was I had to replace all the capacitors and the power supply, but that’s a very common thing to have to do with any sort of piece of vintage gear, I mean especially synths, but a lot of vintage gear, the thing that’s going to go, the thing that expires a lot of times is the capacitors and the power supplies because due to heat and just usage. They dry out, especially -- or they start to leak. It’s especially true with tantalum caps and electrolytic caps. They tend to dry out or burn up or they start to leak with certain kinds and types of caps.

So, let’s see how this looks. Two slightly uneven-looking holes but it should all work out.

We don’t want metal to get inside of the power supply because, you know, a flake of metal could land across some leads on the board and then that will create a short out situation, so you want to get all the metal out. I also taped up across the jacks so metal wouldn’t fall into these jacks which can also get inside the keyboard after that. Let me go the jacks that go to this and put them in here.

These are the actual jacks that go to this.

[ROSS KELLY INSTALLING MIDI JACKS AT THE BACK PANEL OF THE SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS PROPHET 5]

These are the actual MIDI jacks that go to this. I actually don’t remember which one is in, which one is out, but I’ll figure that out later, so I’ll make sure that these both fit in here. If I can get the screws on, they’re probably a little crooked but it’s all right with me. It’s all about functionality, not looking pretty. I may have to do a little more drilling here but not much.

So, what am I doing here. Just screwing the hole and then use the jack as a guide. I never recommend to do this but --

BILL HOLLAND: It’s part of the fun of it though, right?

ROSS KELLY: Yeah. The fun of it is doing it with what you got.

The jacks are in place maybe slightly crooked but not bad.[ I’m actually kind of impressed that I did it this straight manually with a hand drill. Next is to put this all back together and make sure we have the right jacks in the rght place. Hopefully this worked.