Elektron Musical Instruments

Ouch!

The easiest (and safest) fix is probably to put it in a box and ship it 
to a service center.  That is an unfortunate situation, man... I 
wouldn't risk doing anymore damage.  Get it well soon :)

The powers of superglue are still largely undiscovered, and not all for 
the light side of the force.

chrism
On May 26, 2004, at 10:10 PM, Gene Schwartz wrote:

> Well, you have to understand - I have no hardware skills at all, but I 
> am
> still somewhat impressed at my incompetence...
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> I glanced over at my Machinedrum, and I noticed that one of the knobs 
> had
> somehow broken clean off. I have no idea how it happened, and though I 
> could
> venture a guess, that's not so important at this point. So, I figured 
> that
> it should be easy to fix - you shouldn't have to send back a synth for
> repair for something so trivial. So, I took some super glue and tried 
> to
> glue it back. LOL - now I've totally ruined it - the underlying 
> mechanism is
> totally stuck now - must have gotten too much glue on it or something.
>
> There must be an easy way to fix this - maybe remove the top and 
> replace the
> whole knob...anyone know about this kind of thing?
>
> Embarassed...
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