Thanks, I'd seen the key contact assembly offered by vintageplanet as new-old-stock. Based on your review of them I've ordered it. With conversion from the Euro and fully insured airmail shipping it came to around $134 US. There was a non-working DW-8000 up on eBay for $95, but I can't be assured the key contact assembly will be any better than mine. My DW8000 had one or two notes that would stick "on" when played, and I opened it up and gently cleaned all the contact switches with Q-tips and alcohol, but when reassembled it had even more notes sticking than ever before. I don't know what the deal is with those contact switches to cause my problems, but I'll do a decent post-mortem on my old assembly after I install the new assembly. The switches themselves are straightforward, they have an upper and lower contact, and the DW8000 uses the time between opening the upper contact and closing the lower contact to calculate key velocity. I briefly considered just using my DW8000 as a slave module to a master keyboard, but I already have an EX8000, and everything else on my DW works perfectly, and I have a never-been-installed Angel City Turbo upgrade to put in it, so I really want the physical keyboard working. I can also stack my DW8000 and DS-8 with a pair of Voce DMI-64 mkII rackmount units to make a pretty decent DIY Hammond organ. Hopefully the key contact assembly from vintageplanet will cure the sticking notes with my DW8000. Thanks guys! -Mark (owner of DW8000.com) On 12/22/11 8:52 AM, jimmy wrote: > > > Hey Mark! > > I get all my vintage kybd parts from www.vintageplanet.nl > They are in The Netherlands but I have not had any problems and they are nice people to deal with. > Good luck! > ~jimmy > > > --- In DW8000@yahoogroups.com, Mark B<Bugsi@...> wrote: >> >> If anybody has a DW8000 I could salvage for parts, please contact me. >> At the moment the main thing I need is a working key contact assembly. >> That's the multiple white plastic frames with the individual key >> switches, wired to each other with short ribbon cables. >> >> I'll consider buying just the assembly I need, or the entire DW8000 for >> parts. My alternative is to find a good working DW8000, and I can use >> the rest of my otherwise-working-fine DW8000 for parts. >> >> Either way, if you can help rescue a DW8000 with parts, shoot me an >> email at: >> bugsi@... >> >> Thanks, >> -Mark >> > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
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Re: [DW8000] Re: Looking for parts
2011-12-23 by Mark B