Doepfer

took another look..you're right, would be torturous, for me anyway.   i'll just 
continue on w/o the button..  not a huge inconvenience.  plenty else to jog 
around with.

thanks for your insight!

-psm



> 
> It would actually be quite tortuous! The jack sockets corresponding 
> to each push-button are mounted on the solder side of the PCB, and 
> directly cover the connections and mounting bracket pins of the 
> switch. Thus to replace the switch would require removing it's 
> associated socket first - a job complicated by the fact that the 
> sockets are in such close proximity to each other. The easiest thing 
> would probably be to destroy the socket by snapping the plastic, thus 
> exposing its pins to ease their removal, change the switch, and put a 
> new socket in. Even reaching around the sides of the new socket to 
> solder it in place would be tricky and require a small soldering iron 
> bit! (There is so little room in fact that in a few instances the 
> mounting bracket for the switch is used to route the signal coming in 
> from the socket - very cunning!)
> 
> Definitely not one for the faint-hearted!
> 
> Tim