Vintage Synth Repair

Francisco,
You need replacement J-wires and they are a bit hard to find these days.

Try DB Musical Electronics - he's been selling Micromoog key board PCB's and
you can remove the J-Wires. He sometimes has auctions up on ebay in the US.

http://members.aol.com/DBmElect/moog.html


Some people have reportedly used Guitar strings to good effect - I'm haven't
tried it myself (since I keep some old scrap P-R keyboard parts for repairs)
but I think that an E or B string should work. Remember that these aren't
plated the same as original j-wires (some are gold plated) so you might have
to clean the contacts occasionally.

mw


-----Original Message-----
From: miaumarramiau [mailto:miaumarramiau@...] 
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 12:34 PM
To: vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [vintagesynthrepair] Help of an Arp omni 2... (only the keyboard,
not schematics)



Hello,

   I own an arp omni 2, and the keyboard is not triggering correctly 
the notes. I have opened it and found that it uses little metal wires 
in each key in order to make contact with a bigger 'ground' bar.

The problem is that several keys have its wires missing and I can't 
seem to find such a metal with its flexibility and conductance near 
me.
I have heard that other arp keyboards from that time worked that way, 
so I thougt some of you might know which kind of metal do I need to 
repair it and where can I find it.


Thanks in advance,


Hardware_Mister.
Francisco J.






 
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