Vintage Synth Repair

i live in miami where its very humid....

i noticed that on most of the metal contacts AND strips, there was oxidation 
or rust.

i am seriously contemplating shelving this unit and saving for a Korg Poly61 
that is on sale for $300.

anybody have any word on these units... tech problems, overall sound?

>From: Ron Bell <worthogis@...>
>Reply-To: vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com
>To: vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [vintagesynthrepair] cleaning keyboard contacts
>Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:42:29 -0700
>
>  I have a DW-8000, the action and contacts are not very robust. The key 
>contacts are not  the little rubber cups arranged in strips, they are metal 
>strips about an inch or so long with two contact points. I have found 
>cleaning them with alchohol or a good contact cleaner helps with dead notes 
>but the velocity sensitivity never seems to work properly on all the keys. 
>I have  "Carefully" bent the key contacts so that they all play properly 
>but this lasts about a week before they are out of whack again. Between the 
>very loud clacky action and the contact problems I rarely use this board, 
>although I bought it used and the previous owner may have "hammered" on it 
>for years wearing it out.
>  Cheers,
>  Ron Bell.
>----- Original Message -----
>   From: Richard Cohen
>   To: vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com
>   Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 12:34 PM
>   Subject: Re: [vintagesynthrepair] cleaning keyboard contacts
>
>
>   black part that's inside the cup?!?!?
>
>
>   >From: "Scott A. Robb" <soul.lux@...>
>   >Reply-To: vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com
>   >To: <vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com>
>   >Subject: Re: [vintagesynthrepair] cleaning keyboard contacts
>   >Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 08:55:59 -0700
>   >
>   >Are you handy with a soldering iron at all? This should be very simple 
>to
>   >repair. If not, do you know anyone who is?
>   >
>   >It's great that you're getting results with the cleaning. I assume that
>   >this is the Mitsubishi keybed in this Korg then? Perhaps if you work on 
>the
>   >black part that's inside the cup it'll get even more of 'em going.
>   >
>   >Scott

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