Formerly-Feral-Fergus peed into my digital piano before settling down into his new home.
Round one was adjudicated as being won by the cat pee because the rubber-boot key contacts would not sit straight when the circuit board was slid over them from the end of the action.
You can see pee-induced corrosion and the way that the boots are not all happily slotted-in. They have to be un-stressed in order to move freely.
This shows the skews caused by trying to slide the tight-fitting circuit-board under the rubber boots. The boots are molded in long strips. There are three sections in the bass half of the keyboard. The contacts are graphite that is somehow applied to the bottom of the dents of the boots. Strike force is calculated by measuring the time between two switch events. If you look closely you can see two dents in each boot.
This instrument has a great deal of spill resistance in that the switching is capacitive and not based on making electrical contact. If it weren't for the fact that the urine crystalized, I think there would have been no problem. It still worked while it was wet.
I put one of the hammers on top of the keybed so you can see it. The hammers strike up through the slots from below and pass into the body of the key. They don't actually strike the keytop, though.
If you look carefully at the hammers, you'll see a round opening with a bushing. That's completely unused in this instrument. At first I thought it was a feature for a different action using these same hammers, but after removing most of them manually, I've figured it out. That bushing takes a rod. The rod is a tool that allow you to install or remove a bunch, maybe all, of the bushings in one operation.
Wish me luck. I like this instrument. It's a GEM (General Music, Italy) PRP-800. The GEM instruments had something to them that I can only call a traditional Italian craftsmanship. They didn't have a lot of glitzy features, and they didn't compete on technical specifications. They just have a musicality and responsiveness that's often lacking in sample-based instruments.
Round one was adjudicated as being won by the cat pee because the rubber-boot key contacts would not sit straight when the circuit board was slid over them from the end of the action.
You can see pee-induced corrosion and the way that the boots are not all happily slotted-in. They have to be un-stressed in order to move freely.
This instrument has a great deal of spill resistance in that the switching is capacitive and not based on making electrical contact. If it weren't for the fact that the urine crystalized, I think there would have been no problem. It still worked while it was wet.
I put one of the hammers on top of the keybed so you can see it. The hammers strike up through the slots from below and pass into the body of the key. They don't actually strike the keytop, though.
If you look carefully at the hammers, you'll see a round opening with a bushing. That's completely unused in this instrument. At first I thought it was a feature for a different action using these same hammers, but after removing most of them manually, I've figured it out. That bushing takes a rod. The rod is a tool that allow you to install or remove a bunch, maybe all, of the bushings in one operation.
Wish me luck. I like this instrument. It's a GEM (General Music, Italy) PRP-800. The GEM instruments had something to them that I can only call a traditional Italian craftsmanship. They didn't have a lot of glitzy features, and they didn't compete on technical specifications. They just have a musicality and responsiveness that's often lacking in sample-based instruments.
hope you get it fixed. Cat Fricazzi on the menu?
ReplyDeleteUgh, there's nothing I hate more than the smell of cat pee! ��
ReplyDeleteI used to have such an issue with my cats back in the times of living alone with them. You wouldn't believe the mayhem they caused! Seriously! ��
One of my 2 cats (both neutered guys) had taken to painting the majority of my dividers, furniture, and whatever else he could reach. I was alarmed when I got an UV light... ��
He never did that in the majority of the 9 years I've had him and didn't when I got him a mate (they cherish one another and did so immediately) however when a weird dark cat fired appearing outside both of my cats went crazy and the more seasoned one (9) began his divider painting, just as the window ornaments out in the kitty room. I couldn't keep up with it anymore.
My cats are indoor cats so dislike the stray is really going to get in here yet the two of them detest him (and he is weird...my neighbor's cats loathe him as well). I've taken a look at cleaning with a pet pee compound and afterward spraying some "No More Spraying" however that hasn't worked. He's a tricky little bugger as well; he holds up until he believes I'm not looking and afterward does it. He's discovered that the moment I see him backing his butt looking for trouble he gets shouted at.
It wasn't until I found "NoMoreCatPee" that I had the option to at long last dispose of this tedious conduct ��
Currently my home doesn't smell like a litter box any longer ��
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Cheers! ��