[sdiy] Fixing an roland R5

[Florian Anwander]

This is basically a good advise. But still the mainproblem is, that the 
crack will continue to break. It will take two or three months until the 
next trace is broken and on and on. If you start reparing it with 
conductive epoxy, then be prepared to do it for all the traces now.

But it in the end this thing is prone to death. Sorry.



Am 09.04.2018 um 13:21 schrieb Steve Lenham:
>
> It is certainly a challenging thing to repair. As Florian says, there 
> is no point trying to repair the crack directly since the stress is 
> too high there.
>
> If replacement of the whole sheet isn't an option, I would suggest 
> very carefully exposing the conductor at a point on each side of the 
> crack where the sheet is not required to bend. You may need to move 
> quite some distance from the crack to find a suitable area, but it 
> doesn't matter. Then attach a piece of thin Kynar-covered wire between 
> these points using conductive epoxy adhesive (Google for it). Do not 
> even think about going anywhere near it with a soldering iron! Make 
> the glued joint as long as possible to maximise strength.
>
> Hope this helps - good luck with your repair.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steve L.
> Benden Sound Technology 

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