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two parts: the little clear yellow guys here on the keyboard of my SCI Pro One synthesizer- is there a name for these?

second part: one of these guys does not like staying on its key- what is a good solution to keep it in place or otherwise fix this problem without doing lasting damage?

check out how bad some of this was pre-cleaning!

Nice green bus bars!

Since those little wire guides are dried out with age, they may need a little help to stay on. You could either use a tiny little piece of double-sided tape wrapped around the key post, or maybe a teeeny drop (match head-sized or smaller) of rubber cement or silicone adhesive. These would be reversable as you could peel the tape or adhesive off.

What's unknown is if the wire guide's base is cracked where it fits on the key post, or just dried out and too loose. If it's cracked or split, then replacement or adhesive might be the best fix.

I don't know of any place that stocks these guides, but there is a place that sells Pratt & Reed key bushing kits that might have them. There's a thread in this forum that has a link to this place. It's the one about swapping OBX/OB 8 manuals.

Good luck - it's nice that a second cleaning was all that was needed!

Those look identical to the Oddy's J-wire guides, not 100% sure but seem very simmal looking from what I remember, looked up on the Oddy yahoo group list and found this for ya.

http://home.netcom.com/%7Earcsound/

Looks like they sell rebuild kits, but don't look like they include guides, just the bushings.

Maybe you could email them see if they know where to get some or happen to have some you could get from them. So, maybe you can also look around for old junked oddys or someone selling oddy keyboard parts as well perhaps to salvage one off of maybe too as another idea for ya.

Good luck with it!

Zam

incidentally, i just got my pack of replacement bushings from Archive Sound a few days ago after doing some Pratt-Reed google research. extra info: the synth is super clean, it was not abused at all and the post at the bottom of the problematic key is undamaged. so, the wire guide is loose- it barely has any hold to keep it from slipping off the key post, letting the j-wire rest on the buss causing a drone. i'm not sure if the wire guides should be tight or if they are naturally a bit loose but use some type of adhesive substance to stay on.

the good news is that my Pro-2000 from Big City Music arrived, so i'm only a couple cables away from having my Pro One MIDI'd!