[A6] keyboard problems

[Chris Pickett]

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>> The only thing that I seem to have wrong with my A6 at the moment is a
>> little squeak on my C2 key and the up button next to the screen needs a
>> solid push to work.  These things Always happen when weather starts 
>> getting
>> humid and hot, so it's nothing to strange.  The squeak is very 
>> slight, but
>> I've been thinking of checking out the keyboard assembly to lubricate 
>> it or
>> make it less noisy.  Has anybody done this?
>>  
>>
> It is very humid and hot here, maybe my problems will go away when it 
> isn't.  I took out my keyboard, and behind each key is a spring ... 
> that's what's squeaking.  I sprayed a little bit of WD-40 in each 
> spring and it seemed to help, especially if any keys had a metal kind 
> of twanging to them ... but my lower octave of keys is still kind of 
> squeaky.  Maybe some grease or oil on the springs would help more than 
> WD-40.  I found the keys a lot easier to clean once the keyboard was 
> taken out too.  Be carefully undoing the aftertouch and key 
> connectors, and remember their orientations!  In particular, the 
> keyboard wires, which are grey, need to go in a very specific place, 
> on top of each other ... if you look up at the panel board, there's a 
> little cutout in the metal to make room for them (you'll see once you 
> open it).  It's not difficult, just watch out.


be warned that this might probably give you a looser keyboard action ... 
at least, i tried out the A6 in a local shop and the keys were *much* 
springier ... maybe it's just time that did it to my keyboard though, 
since I can't remember what the feel was like before the WD40.  anyway, 
i'd rather have looser keys, it feels more like a piano and it's easier 
to play.

just some more rambling from your local list dominator.

chris