Roland D-50 Repair tips and tricks; watch before you open your D-50!

In this video I disassemble a Roland D-50 I previously repaired, in order to correct a mistake I made during the repair. I had not intended to make a video of it but when I was done I thought I could have shared one or two things and therefore having to open it again provided the opportunity to do so. Lessons Learned:
-Protect the pitch bend lever and the joystick before flipping the synth over a work surface.
-Label every screw and bolt; in a device this old all screws and bolts are going to be different and this will save you a lot of time and prevent further damage to the synth's bolt and screw holes.
-You can rest the key bed on its side, but make sure you don't rest it over the side that has the very delicate aftertouch sensor connector.
-There are 7 different white keys, one for each natural note. You can swap a C for another C or an F for another F, but you can't swap a D for a G or a G for an A.
-The aftertouch sensor is a white conductive polymer stripe that changes its electrical resistance as you increase the pressure. This stripe bridges two carbon tracks and the synth detects the resistance, and thus knows how much aftertouch to apply. This stripe loses its properties with the age. You can improve things a little by cleaning it, but if you scrub too strongly you will wear out the white stuff and you will be left with a zero resistance substrate. I fixed the aftertouch by applying stripes of paper with lots of pencil graphite to the carbon tracks.

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Really interesting, some great tips! 🙏👍😎