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Kurzweil repair help

2008-01-30 by Don Sealer

Okay, where do I start.
I own a Kurzweil 2500. I've had it for several years but have never gotten into upgrading or anything. I just use it for the onboard sounds. A month or so ago I dropped a penny and it fell right into the Kurz. Since I needed to finish a run of bookings I didn't do anything with it. I just figured I'd wait till I had some time off. Well that time has come.
I opened the Kurz and got the penny back however in the meantime I heard some other stuff rattling around. When I opened it up I found a couple of other things besides the penny. I found a solid cylinder. It's about 7/8" long and 7/16" round, completely solid. I also found three plastic parts. Two of them appear to be exactly the same and the third part looks like it belongs to the other two parts. I also found a screw. It's about 1" long, has a washer on it and looks to be a # 6 or #8 sized screw. All of these parts can be seen at this web address http://www.gourdgeouscreations.com/Kurzparts.htm
The pictures are somewhat blurry but I think with the description I gave above, a clear idea of what I'm talking about shouldn't be too hard to come up with.
I'm wondering what these parts are and where they go. I figure the screw may have just worked it's way loose over the past 6 or 7 years that I've had the keyboard (it's traveled a lot over that time from gig to gig). It's possible that the three plastic parts go with the screw. I'm really puzzled by the cylinder and where it came from. I'm also wondering if, from the penny rolling back and forth inside the keyboard if, the penny didn't knock the cylinder loose.
In any event I could use some help in finding places for these parts and also some general advice on what to do with the keyboard now that it's opened and what to be cautious of. I know that people open these keyboards often for upgrades so I figure I'm not in uncharted territories.
Thanks for accepting me into your group and for the valuable help I know will be coming,
Don..........

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