Re: lexicon boxes

[Jeff Larson <Jeffrey.Larson@Sun.COM>]

Tony K wrote:
> Speaking of Lexicon... there's someone on EBay selling a Vortex that 
> doesn't work quite right.  He says it changes patches sort of randomly 
> and some other weird stuff but it worked when he got it.  Could that be 
> a battery problem?  Starting bid is $5.

 From the description it is almost certainly a bad rotary encoder.  Since
you apparently can't get these from Harman any more, it might be worth
$18 just to unsolder the two functioning encoders to fix another unit.

Has anyone tried squirting electronics cleaner into one of these encoders?

Jeff