excellent congrats on your new sx210!!You paid a good fair price!.Im fairly new to my sx210 as well but I have had my sx240 for quite sometime now.The contacts can cause a problem and it could be from two different reasons.There could be gunk in there that just needs to be cleaned or it could actualy be the the contact under what the actualy switchs rest on.Not a bad fix especialy if your taking it to a tech.The battery change is what is most imporant as you probily already know.I have not had much exp fixing synths till well after I got my sx240 witch i got in good working order.I a ran into a poly 6 that was nicad mess city.Based on what i leanred form reading I cleaned and fixed my poly 6 .even switched out a few chips(that i blew myself fixing).Then i got a sx210 and it had a leaky nicad.With the sucess I had from the poly 6(it took me 6 months to fix)I decided I could fix and modify my sx210 to take a ion based on the mod that travis"boardjunkie" did to my sx240 before I bought it from him.It took about a month but I got the nicad out and the ion in.No porblems.thanks travis if you see this you got me into diy synth working slowly with a electronics freind guiding my work.Im slowly working on a cz1000 now.But yea just have your tech get that battery out and you should have no problem.As for a midi retro fit for the sx210 no not as of yet or possibly ever.Good luck and have fun with your new great synth!
--- In kawai-teisco@yahoogroups.com, "Reid" <reid@...> wrote:
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> Bought for £300 yesterday, will arrive in a couple of weeks just to visit a tech's for battery change and switch contact fixing.
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> I read somewhere the switch contacts is a weak point. Is it an easy fix?
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> Also, did anyone ever attempt a midi retrofit for the 210?
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> Cheers!
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Re: I finally got a 210
2010-01-29 by S