First, thanks to all of your pro's who continually share your ideas and skills, and spirited discussions. For guys like me who lurk in the background, trying to absorb every bit of info you offer, I really appreciate all your inputs. Keep it flowing.

As I was packing up from a small gig the other night, I lost my grip on my PSR-S900 and it fell 5 inches to the floor. Just enough for my finger to snag a key and snap it clean off. My heart sank.

Have any of you ever repaied a key, or opened up your PSR's and performed maintenance? I'm hoping that Yamaha will sell me the replacment key so I can fix it myslef. I just hope that there is no delicate calibration that needs to be done on the keys using special test equipment.

Have any of you ever made this kind of repair?

Thx, Russ

As long as the break is clean, and it fits back together nice and smoothly (no missing bits or bent plastic) I honestly have had good luck to fix a key or two simply with Superglue. The trick is that it has to be a VERY good fit, and also give the glue plenty of time to cure well (it says you don't need to, but trust me, it does!), say a day or so, before you play it.

No guarantees, but give it a whirl. The sensors for velocity are independent of the key itself, so if the key fits back in place with no noticeable difference from the other keys, you should be good to go...

Just remember, Superglue needs a VERY clean surface to work it's best. If you touched the surfaces that join together, they will need some cleaning with a little denatured alcohol (on a Q-Tip) to get any finger grease off of there.

Best of luck...

Diki's right.., but BE CAREFUL with that superglue. Make sure you don't get any running. I know people that have fixed broken keys with superglue who later ran into more problems from the superglue running and well..., simply glued things together that had no business being with eachother

As Diki stated.., make sure the surfaces are clean for it to really get a good hold. I got a story for ya that will confirm what Diki has said and if it worked for me in this way it'll sure as hell hold a broken key in place.

Once a truck kicked up a stone and broke the turn signal cover on my old Lincoln... It had a very small crack on it.., but the force caused the ENTIRE front "square" plastic cover to come off in one piece. For the hell of it I refastened it with superglue. Guess what..., I sold that car recently and this happened over 2 years ago.., and when I sold the car it still had a superglued blinker cover that survived the elements

I've had mixed success repairing keys with superglue. As Dikki said, it must an extremely clean break. Otherwise it won't hold. But I did have one hold up for a long time that I repaired that way.
As far as replacing it, it's not that hard. It has been several PSR generations ago since I did it, but I'll bet Gary has done it recently.
DonM

I had one break on my technics kn6000 ... not being one to fool around taking my kb apart, I found a guy to replace it for me ...
He said it wasn't a big deal ... maybe not for him ...
I'll fool around with taking things apart and putting them back together, but not my kb ...
t.

Actually, I guess I should have said... I don't recommend gluing the key while 'in place'. As squeak points out, there's a lot of potential to glue things together you don't really WANT glued!

Open the case and remove the key carefully, and then glue it away from the keyboard.

Slide a strip of grease proof paper under the key to be repaired,then carefully and very thinly coat the ends of the key to be joined.As said before the clue really needs to proberly cure leave well alone for at leat 24 hours.This is the most important part.
Gilbert.

Thanks for your replies. I will try the superglue, but will also contact Yamaha and see if they will sell me a new replacement key. I don't see why they wouldn't.