Never Lose Faith / Yamaha Keyboard Restoration

[Mike2]

Maybe some of you have seen this video.  Unbelievable!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQc_f4HJahs

[Lee Batchelor]

How does he remember where everything goes? Photographic memory? If I was faced with that task, I'd be photographing everything like a mad man!
Hard to believe some of the components would survive a soaking of tap water.

If he's that good, I'd like his address so I can have him restore my pathetically made Genos case .

[Ronbo]

This video is definitely worth watching

Spilled coffee on the keys should be no problem to remedy

regards

Ron

[Mike2]

I used to work on telephone equipment in the late 1960's. The circuit boards at the time did not have the chips and all that technology that is available today. But after watching this video and seeing him clean the keyboard up, which is about all he could have done. I think anyone with a knowledge of electronics, can pretty much reassemble because most of these components, which hook to each other with micro plugs. If this keyboard had been plugged in while thrown into water, I don't think the results would have been the same. 

[GregB]

Honestly my biggest concern would be the speakers.  Paper cone speakers in particular don't do well once exposed to even a mild amount of water, let alone a flood - there'd be enough deformation / corrosion / contamination to cause the voice coils to drag on the magnets, distorting the audio.

One thing that tends to aid reassembly is that usually the various connectors have different numbers of conductors.  When I worked on my S950 late last year, I carefully labeled all of the cables with a sharpie marker, but that turned out to be overkill.

- Greg

[Mike2]

Many paper cone speakers are not waterproof but water resistance. But even so, these speakers took water and mud to survive.
I guess when we think things are made cheap, maybe this is a wakeup call. But not for me.  This was just a keyboard that was found in time to restore, and make for a great you tube video.

[Ronbo]

Not to be sceptical, but the guy didn't actually play the revived Yamaha...... all he did was make some noise on it.

Could be that it is not what you would call, fixed!

Nonetheless, he's quite talented in his own right.

Good and interesting video for sure

regards

Ron

[Joe H]

A rather low end keyboard to spend so much work restoring it.  He must be a Yamaha engineer to do that. To say he knew what he was doing would be an understatement. To hose all the electronics down with water, then clean them with some special solution (?) He took that thing apart like he had built it in the first place.

Amazing!

Joe H