Help! Spilled coke, sticky keys and stuck notes

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Okay my keyboard player is a bum...uses my Korg X5D at shows, and SOMEHOW at our last show some coke got spilled over the first octave...

And now half the first octave keys don't work and some of them just drone the notes even after the key has been pressed. Is this even fixable? I noticed that there is a circuit board underneath the keys, which i'm sure the soda shorted out.

How would i go about repairing this is there is a way?
 
hopefully nothing was shorted out from the liquid.

id open it up and not turn it back on until every inch is pop-free and dry on the inside.

i think you'll need an old toothbrush for that cleaning
 
yea thats what i would have done...but i think if i already turned it on and the keys weren't workin the damage has probly been done... i'll open it up and check it out nonetheless
 
check out http://www.tritonhaven.com

Seems I remember someone spilling coke on their triton awhile back and he took it apart, cleaned it up real good (toothbrush?) and everything worked fine. Must be that secret ingredient in Coke that makes it stop working.

-muzakal
 
yes!

Well that thread gives me some hope at least! I'll give those suggestions a try and let you guys know. Thanks muzakal

trogdor
 
Contact Cleaner might work too, once you have it opened up. That coke is sticky stuff and I am not sure what the Phosphuric Acid will do to a circuit board. Too bad it wasn't beer!

I work for a chemical company and I just asked our chemist and she said it will eat through so you had better clean it up! She said to use water and Rubbing Alcohol.

Sorry-
Jason
 
Success!!

Thanks so much yall... I got up the balls to tear the sucker open and it was a surprisingly simple operation in there!

took out the keyboard part, took off the keys, and there were rows of little rubber buttons that i assume detect the velocity at which you hit the note...

anyway...the reason the notes weren't working is because my (former) friend with the coke managed to sticky up that rubber and some of the buttons weren't springing back up...

took off the rubber strip and gave it a good scrub and rinse and everything's good as new!

*heavy sigh of relief*

thanks again
trogdor
 
Ya know how much that keyboard is worth now that someone spilled their stash in there. And if it was enough to mess up a whole octave it musta been at least a couple hundrend dollars. You think you feel bad, just think how the guy who spilled all his cain in there felt. LOL ...but seriously you should think of using some sort of cover for the keyboard so that this doesnt happen again...
 
trogdor said:
Okay my keyboard player is a bum...uses my Korg X5D at shows, and SOMEHOW at our last show some coke got spilled over the first octave...
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Drugs and keyboardplayers ain't a good combination!

:D
 
Re: Re: Help! Spilled coke, sticky keys and stuck notes

Downside Studio said:
Drugs and keyboardplayers ain't a good combination!

:D
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That's why I play guitar
 
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