Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

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

--- In 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
>