Hi Greg,

You can find the schematics and service manual for the SK-5 here:

http://www.jz-server.de/forum2/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewforum.php?
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Cheers, Graham




--- In CasioSK@yahoogroups.com, "afireinthegarden"
<afireinthegarden@...> wrote:
>
> I have encountered a strange anomaly in a casio sk-5 i just
> finished.When i was working on it, i put a soldering iron to a pin
> while it was turned on and it started playing an am talk radio
> station. I took itoff before the solder melted, let it cool and
tried
> again and it did it again! The point i was soldering was one of the
> body contact points i had planned and i decided to just go ahead
with
> that. One of the wires didnt stick well, and when tinkering it came
> off. I decided to replace it, and when re-soldering it, i broke a
> copper trace and had to replace it with hookup wire wire. However,it
> wouldnt solder to the resistor at the next point on the trace(R20).
I
> took it off to solder to it but the legs were just too short and it
> wouldnt work.
> I couldnt find a schematic on the internet (they all linked to
> JMEzine, which wasnt working), so I decided to just replace it with
> wire as, connected to the pin, well and test the effct. The circuit
> turned on and played, and the contact worked fine, so I finished the
> project with the intention of fixing it later. Then, upon
completion,
> I was fiddling and trying the contact points and the radio station
> came back in again, just as clear as before!
> I will try to get the frequency next time. For now though, i've
> posted pictures of the points in the body / alligator clip contact
> group i built. The 8 pins in the box to the left attached to small
> bolts which can be connected to each other with alligator clips. The
> three bolts in the box on the right are attached to larger bolts
used
> to body contact tothe smaller bolts. The radio station can come from
> all three. The pink wire is the resistor that has been replaced and
> the wire jumper goes from the top point on that to the pin just to
the
> left of it.
> I guess my question is: how in the hell might this happen?!
> -Greg
>