Vintage Synth Repair

The OP wasn't talking about key bushings - he was talking about the plastic caps for the hammer action thingy (I have no idea what it's called).  I use DC7 as the lubricant on both bushings and 'hammer caps'.

Keyboard action was fine afterwards and it's now back with it's owner who is pretty happy with it. I'll take a photo of the tubing tonight and send it through. I don't know what the original use was, sorry.

Key bushings aren't that expensive - shop around, team up with your mates and contact the vendors and ask for a bulk price.

Cheers,
A.


On 17/07/2013, at 20:59, Daniel Forró <dan.for@...> wrote:

> This looks like a good idea. Picture would be good. How thick is that tube? What was original use for it, if I want to buy such? Which grease did you use, some silicon? Does your restored keyboard work as expected?
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> I need to renew keyboards on my Multimoog and PPG Wave 2.2, and key bushings offered by different firms are rather expensive...  
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> Thanks for any info.
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> Daniel Forro
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> On 17 Jul, 2013, at 7:47 PM, Adrian Corston wrote:
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>> I recently did a P-R keyboard restoration using short pieces of 3mm (approx) diameter flexible clear plastic tubing for exactly this purpose.  They didn't have a closed cap over the top but it didn't matter in the slightest.  I was able to cut them to whatever length I wanted, too, which was handy.  The tubing is brand new so it should last for many years.  Total cost for 1 metre was something like $1.20 which is enough for about a two hundred or so of them :-)
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>> Let me know if you want a photo of what I mean...
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>> Cheers,
>> A.
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