Hi Jonathan,

Well, I figured that posting about my mistakes may help someone else from doing the same, and if so then it's worth being up front about it.

And yes, I like to try and report back with results if I can, as I find it really frustrating when you read through a thread only to get to the end and there is no conclusion.

And on that note. I finally finished my Kiwisix this evening. I haven't replaced the spark killer since I saw a post by Tony Oakley on the Yahoo Polysix group saying it doesn't need to be, but I may drop him an email and ask for more details on that.

Other than that, today I cleaned the key contacts. Quite a few keys were playing up, so I unscrewed the keybed PCB, and cleaned the small black carbon pads on the rubber contact strips using a pencil rubber (eraser to our American friends.) I found these had previously been painted with some gold conductive paint which had started flaking off.

The gold trace pads on the PCB also had some oxidation, so again using some gentle cleaning with the pencil eraser those cleaned up nicely. I got this tip from http://www.oldcrows.net/~oldcrow/synth/korg/polysix/keyclean2.html

I like the idea of the LA Synth Co new rubber strips, but thought I would try the above first, and although its only a few hours in, all the keys are triggering nicely now.

I have also thoroughly enjoyed reading chipaudette's site synthhacker.com has been incredibly informative, and have learned a lot from his detailed work.

Before I forget I just want to say many thanks to everyone for their valuable time and knowledge

I will look at that Panorama mod sometime, but I think that's it for now, so time to start using the Kiwisix and its new features. :)

Cheers for now,

Tim