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Antoine Deschênes | 22 Dec 2004 00:56

Re: intransigent K5 buttons


Remove the brown cap over the buttons with the words
on it(push it up or down looking from top by the
sides), there's a white moving part that holds the
button into a gray part, which isn't removable except
by unsoldering it. The white part is clipped into the
gray one, use small screwdrivers, or use pliers but
DON'T TWIST IT, the button might get unusable after if
you do this. 

 --- Marvin Kaye <marv@...> a écrit : 
> 
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm in the process of putting my studio back
> together and am using my 
> K5 as a master controller.  I've got a new backlight
> on order (the 
> inverter is ok) so that little item is taken care
> of.  I do have some 
> buttons that don't always work on the first push and
> I thought I 
> would follow the directions I found on the
> kfuenf.com site to clean 
> them up, but my buttons don't seem to follow the
> same rules as those 
> outlined in the tech area on kfuenf.com.  The
> individual switches are 
> little cubic thingies, about 1/4" on a side, and the

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Marvin Kaye | 22 Dec 2004 05:49

Re: intransigent K5 buttons

Hi Antoine,

Well, I dug back into that board with the buttons and actually 
managed to get one of them apart.  They are really delicate little 
things and I'd like to find a better way to disassemble them.  I do 
quite a bit of gunsmithing and know from that activity that having 
the right tool for the job is a huge part of getting most anything 
done, so I'm going to think about coming up with something that will 
allow the little tabs on the movable part of the button to be 
compressed so the part can be removed from the switch body without 
damage.  In the meantime I'm going to live with the few buttons that 
take more than a single push to get activated.  Thanks for the tip, 
though... it at least allowed me to get a better feel for what's 
going on in there.

 <Marv>

--- In k5synth@..., Antoine Deschênes <antdes45 <at> y...> 
wrote:
> Remove the brown cap over the buttons with the words
> on it(push it up or down looking from top by the
> sides), there's a white moving part that holds the
> button into a gray part, which isn't removable except
> by unsoldering it. The white part is clipped into the
> gray one, use small screwdrivers, or use pliers but
> DON'T TWIST IT, the button might get unusable after if
> you do this. 

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