Mellotronists

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
> 
> http://www.s-club.co.uk
>         Sundae Club*
>          PO Box 862
>          Cheltenham
>            GL52 2XT
> 
> 

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