Not a problem,
If the contacts still give you a problem, hit
them with a pencil eraser and then some contact
cleaner. Just like electric race-car contacts. It
was built by a toy company, it is essentially a toy, I
find it's best to follow suit and use toy repair
methods. I also find that striking the unit can be
helpful as well.
Oh, and, regretfully, no relation to the beer.
-Jack
--- Colin Crawford <
g-colin.crawford@...>
wrote:
>
> On 28 Apr 2005, at 22:50, Jack Younger wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> > The buttons on the optigan have a rubber
> sheet
> > over them to protect them from dust. It decays,
> > fragments over time and pieces of it get stuck
> between
> > the contacts. Open the top panel and disassemble
> the
> > button assembly. It will be orange (the same
> color as
> > a Hot Wheels track strip, ahhhh, Mattel). Remove
> the
> > sheet (or what's left of it), clean out any
> leftover
> > chunks and wipe the contacts down with contact
> > cleaner. Now they should work. Please disregard
> if
> > this is old news to you.
> > -Jack Younger, former optigan owner and current
> 'tron
> > owner
>
> Thanks for that!
>
> I loved your beer.
>
> The same is slowly happening to mine. I thought the
> only way out would
> be to coax every button into life with deft prodding
> and then sample
> the loop!
> >
> > --- Mattias <Mattias.olsson5@...> wrote:
> >>
> >> On my Optigan the autokomp buttons have
> died...sort
> >> of. They all play at once creating kind of a Tom
> >> Waits vibe...
>
> Surely ∗everything∗ played on an Optigan sounds like
> Tom Waits?
>
> Cx
>
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> Cheltenham
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>
>
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