Hi Philip,
Don't despair so quickly. I've had a similar problem myself and fixed
it.
As long as you still have the broken bits you're not lost
altoghether. I assume the broken parts are those tiny tabs that fit
into the pair of holes that the metal keyboard chassis has per key.
If that happens to be true, do the following: glue the tabs --
provided they still lodge into the remaining part of the key-- with
some cyanoacrylate. ONce it's dry, put the spring in place. THen fill
the space surrounding the spring with epoxi adhesive, taking care not
to let the glue go over the void space between the two tabs. Take an
unbroken key and figure out by comparing.
ONce the epoxi is dry, you'll have the spring fixed, which is not bad
since anyway that's the way it should be. The epoxi and spring will
form a tight bounding unit, so the broken tabs or latches will have
enough resistance for the task required. Just stick the key carefully
in place and that's all. It worked for me and so it should work for
you. BTW I had other issues with my keys, such as broken keys at the
playing surface and breaking of the tiny tab located under the keys
that prevents them from going upwards beyond the normal level. I
succedeed in fixing those problemas as well.
Best,
David
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korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "Philip Linde" <philip.linde@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi!
> I have a Poly-800 MkII and today I found that two keys (G#1 and A1)
> were broken. They are unplayable now! I opened up and it turns out
> that a few plastic bits on the keys had snapped making the keys
crooked.
>
> If you have a broken Poly-800 1 or 2 I'd be VERY thankful if I could
> buy these keys (I guess any G# and A will do). I live in Sweden
but I
> will of course pay for shipping.
> Please contact me ASAP!
>
> Best regards,
> Philip Linde
>