From Brian Willoughby Sent Wed, Jun 6th 2018, 06:32
From Brian Willoughby Sent Wed, Jun 6th 2018, 06:32
It also helps to look at the part. Pretty much everything but SMD caps = have a manufacturer name or logo and a part number. There are usually = also manufacturing dates. Brian On Jun 5, 2018, at 7:47 PM, Jason Proctor <xxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > Is someone on the list a Roland dealer that could help? I thought = maybe Sam at syntaur but I don't know for sure.=20 >=20 > On Tue, Jun 5, 2018, 19:30 Thomas Krugman <xxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> = wrote: >> Just write directly to Roland. Despite their new policy, I find it = hard to believe they won't help you. >>=20 >> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 2:03 PM, Kerry Bradley = <xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: >>> This has come up in other forums, but this is the only one I = regularly participate in, so here goes: >>>=20 >>> Roland stopped selling parts to individuals in Feb of this year; = they now only recommend and sell parts to authorized Roland Service = Centers. >>>=20 >>> For older equipment, this isn't too big a deal, as there is a = healthy-if-imperfect 2ndhand market for vintage analog synth parts, = which keeps my old analogs happy (thanks to Sam, Doug, et al!) >>>=20 >>> But I just got a used Boutique JP-08 for cheap which actually has a = faulty VCA LEVEL slider. It was straightforward enough to desolder it = and diagnose that the carbon trace was broken. >>>=20 >>> This LED slider, however, has to be a custom manufacture by Bourns? = Alps? Alpha? for Roland, as it has a 10mm travel - which Mouser & = Digikey don't have. >>>=20 >>> So, I call around to several authorized Roland Service centers and = find that nobody will sell me, or actually has that part. This thing = isn't vintage unobtanium, as I'm sure Roland has thousands of this = slider sitting in bins in Japan right now. >>>=20 >>> But I'm stuck. The replacement work is simple and and well-within = my skillset and time, so I kinda refuse to pay all the overhead just to = replace a $3 part. >>>=20 >>> Anybody have this part, or know where I might get one? It's that, = or I'm gonna have to try to fix the trace or, just hardwire the VCA = LEVEL function. Seems ridiculous to have to do this for a synthesizer = that's essentially widely available!!! >>>=20 >>> Thanks for the bandwidth. >>=20 >=20