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Re: intransigent K5 buttons

2004-12-22 by Marvin Kaye

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@yahoogroups.com, Antoine DeschĂȘnes <antdes45@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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