Re: Pmc10 remote fix

["Gary Lehmann" <relayonemanband@cts.com>]

Improvising

----- Original Message -----
From: "Claude Voit" <c.voit@vtx.ch>
To: "Loopers-Delight" <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2000 5:26 PM
Subject: Pmc10 remote fix


> hello
>
> here is a little trick that will fix any bad contacts of the remote
> controler buttons of the pmc10
>
> 1-get yourself some graphite paint that is used by TV reparators to
> re-shield tv tubes (I used a leftover from a graphite spray can that
> once served me to shield the control cavity of my electric guitars)

or shave the graphite off a #2 pencil with a single edge razor blade

> 2- open the remote with care

8 screws--pretty easy

> 3- with a towel or q tips and some 90% alcool clean the contact surface
> of the rubber buttons and the pcb

or determine that since you don't have any and skip this step

> 3-spray some graphite on a piece of paper
> 4-take a litle stick and apply some paint on each of the recessed discs
> that are inside the rubber buttons
> 5-I did it a second time after it has dried

or decide that the pencil dust is useless and apply the pencil directly to
the discs

> 6-close the remote
> 8-Its works like new
> 9-send me a friendly note

yup--much improved--I also used the eraser on the contacts

>
> easy ?!
>
> claude
>


Thank you Claude
Gary