Cleaning those rubber thingies

[tomg]

On 03-Aug-98, Jeroen Bruintjes wrote:
>Hello,

>Has anyone come up with *the* solution to clean those rubber pads under a 
>synth-keyboard?

I have done a lot of Rolands others (Korg & Kurzweil come to mind) have the
same problem but Rolands seem to be the worst. I don't know about "THE"
solution but a pencil eraser is my tool for carbon contacts. Just enough
rubbing to remove the gunk on the pad and contact. Then blow the debre away
with clean air. It works most of the time and when it works I never get a
return. If not Roland is usually very reasonable for replacements. Most pads
running in the $20 range and contacts costing arround $15. (exceptions the JPX
the costing about $90 for the pair and if your RD-5000 is sick the whole kbd
has to be replacd $400) I have ordered jpx sets, juno and rhodes 660 contacts
in the past two years.

-tg