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Re: [vintagesynthrepair] Re: Changing minimoog rocker switches

2008-05-18 by Terje Winther

>  Hi, can you see any nuts whitch hold the switches??

No, unfortunately not.

>  Or are the threads in the metal chassis of  the switches?

Yes, indeed so.

> ... you have to disassemble the front panel - that means you have to 
> loosen all pots. That´s a bad job

I will try to no do that, because it is not broken, just slightly 
intermittent.

>  lubricated my switches because i am very lazy. That worked well. So 
> if you dont have any
>  cracked switches let them on their place and try to lubricate them. I 
> took DeoxIT Fader Lube,
>  formerly MCL, that works fine.

Thanks. I think I will do that and see how it works.


tw.  :)

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(Bob Moog)

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