[sdiy] U-20 questions

[Senso]

As for cleaning the key contacts, careful rubbing with Q-tips and 
isopropyl alcohol, both on the rubbers and the board, worked just 
fine for me.
And if all suggestions and advise offered don't help, and it turns 
out you were right and it's time to replace the contact strips, you 
can always click the URL below.  ;-)

Senso


>Hi All,
>
>I love the sounds on my Roland U-20 but it has two problems:
>
>1) Funky key contacts. Many keys don't sound, or trigger a dozen times when
>you hit the key once (a really neat effect if you could turn it on and off).
>I pulled the rubber contact strips and used conductive ink to "re-plate" the
>contact pattern about two years ago. This helped a little, but now the
>problem is as bad as it ever was. Is there a better way to refurbish the
>contacts, or do I just replace the contact strips? And where do I get
>replacement contact strips? I'm just using the U-20 as a sound module right
>now, and this is a reasonable workaround, but the machine has a nice
>keyboard and I'd probably use it as my master controller if the darn thing
>worked properly.

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