[sdiy] anybody ever managed to fix a chroma polaris with dead buttons?

[Doug Terrebonne]

Sometimes you can do a much simpler fix if the ribbon cracks near the end. This
is what happened to my Polaris II. All I had to do to fix it was break off the
end where it was cracked and stuff it back into the connector. I also taped up
the end of the ribbon where it connects to help prevent future cracking.

Doug

> At 01:57 PM 9/20/04 , Steve Begin wrote: 
> 
> >
> > My beloved chroma polaris has falled victim to the "membrane death" that
> > seems to be a common fate for these synths.
> > It's not the switches themselves, first a row of them failed, then most of
> > the rest failed, now i've got 2 or 3 working buttons left.
> > Is it possible to repair the ribbon cable or am I out of luck?
> >  
> > -Steve