3 missing plastics

I found the 3 Missing plastics from my upper keyboard ! This weekend I will probably finish the whole keyparts restoration :-) .

After that I will probably start having a look at the speaker cables (all connected in series to that headphone jack).

While my plastic caps were missing I already had a look at the bass pedals. all the pins are rusty, so I sprayed some WD40 on them a couple of times already... I won't need the DREMEL to clean em, WD40 rules !!

eminente310.blogspot.com is coming along quite well with his ADD-ON PCB for the eminent, he's waiting for the PCB right now and will start tests soon !

upper keyboard layer

my cat played with 3 of my upper keyboard layer plastic caps where those copper feathers go in... will have to search my whole house :p , should have stored them in a box...

So it's finished besides those last 3 notes...

Yesterday I desoldered +150 copper springs from the upper keyboard layer...
It took me 2 hours, but with some Vangelis music time passed very quickly.

Someone advised me to replace the caps of my power supply, and I also noticed my transfo is not in the best shape, it's all rusty and I'm a bit afraid it could short circuit in the future... I was also thinking about replacing it with a thoroid transfo instead of the classic metal plate design. A thoroid gives less flux and therefore less interference with surrounding components. The eminent has a lot of white noise, so it's worth a shot.


A fellow eminent owner created a blog, he will try to :
- separate the keyboard layers
- create some form of amplitude control over the sustain section

http://eminente310.blogspot.com