Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

I bought a second/third hand (or worse) BCR2000 recently, knowing that it had a broken switch encoder and possibly some other issues. Nice and cheap, which kept me under budget. The guy I got the BCR2000 from described it as being a bit dirty and he wasn't wrong - it was covered in what looked to me like fly specks. The knob/shaft of the broken encoder was loose, detached. It was still possible to turn the knob and engage the encoder but pressing did nothing.

I was able to determine fairly quickly that the switch itself was fine, but that whatever structure was meant to be on the end of the encoder shaft was gone and so couldn't reach the switch. There was a narrow tab at the very base of the shaft and it looked like a plastic pin might have been part of this, so I decided to drill a tiny hole up through this tab into the body of the shaft and glue in a piece of wire to act as the pusher pin. This looked a lot easier than my original plan of replacing the entire encoder with a spare - too much fiddly soldering! 

To make the task of drilling through the end of the tab easier, I clamped a strip of plastic on either side. This gave me a wider surface and kind of a guide to keep me drilling straight. I used a tiny pin vice drill and some 2 part epoxy putty to hold everything in place. Originally I had planned to use superglue but I couldn't find any that hadn't set in the tube.

During this process I found that some of the buttons on the top part were sticky or would not press down so decided to investigate. I took off the side panels with no problems (someone else already snapped the tabs off for me). The hard part was scraping off the hot glue so that I could unplug the two cables to the top section and separate it from the main body. Once I had it free I was able to unscrew and remove the circuit board very easily. 

I'd started to notice an odd smell inside the case. I found that the plastic moulding of the top panel and some of the buttons had sticky residue around them which was probably the cause. That's when I recognised the smell - bourbon! This BCR2000 had clearly suffered from a beverage spill at some point, which hadn't been cleaned up fully. There were also some mould lines inside the button cut-outs, raised portions from the casting of the plastic which I suspected could have caused the buttons to jam if there was any flex in the plastic. I scraped these off and wiped up the sticky patches and put everything back together.

Lastly I pulled off all the knob caps from the lower section and using cotton bud sticks moistened with cleaner, removed all the nasty looking specks, crud, and dust from the cover, the switches and the knobs.

It would be an exaggeration to say that the final product looks or works like new, but at least it's clean and fully functional even if that one knob still comes right out when pulled. I think it was definitely worth my time to 'have a go' and fix this myself. I'm now looking forward to learning how to set it up with my various devices.

Thought this post would be more interesting than just a "Hi, I'm new here!" 
-Fossphur