In the process of restoring a Micromoog right now, and I don’t know about you, but I personally don’t like synths that I feel like I have to wash my hands after playing…so this one is getting a detailed job. Obviously of course, its not quite that easy. But standard when I restore a synth.
My specific question involves cleaning the ribbon strip (cosmetically). What can I do to this that won’t alter the functionality, but will look cleaner?
The external part of the ribbon is a piece of teflon coated fabric tape on top of a piece of thin rubber.
If the teflon is worn, only replacing it will be a solution. (I have some.)
If it’s not worn away, standard non-petroleum based cleaners should do.
For example, window cleaner.
Its not so much worn away as it is just kind of dirty, like the rest of the keyboard was before I cleaned it. I was able to make some headway on it though, but still stands out compared to the mod wheel, which I got bright white…
Same Problem here Bro!! :\
All finished, passed it off to its new owner (my long term friend/musical partner), he loved it. I got it overall pretty clean, not funky anymore. Restored cosmetically, electronically, and redid the keybed…plays very nice now. Peeled the stupid formica stuff off and gave it a nice milky green paint job, installed a bass boost mod, and installed a special mod of my own experimentation…
His main keyboard was a Microkorg…barf Had to go. 