Silver contact springs, and midi contacting.

[bruce1530]

Does anyone know of a supplier for the silver-plated contact springs used in midi retrofits? I need to do a small repair.

At one time you could get these from Maplin, but that was last century

 

[Lino1]

Hi Bruce, I can recover some silver-plated contact springs from parts removed from old accordions and make them available if that will help you out.

Unless the spring is broken or bent I usually find that by giving the spring a twist then a new contact surface is presented to the common bar. Avoids replacing the spring.

Regards, Lino

 

[boxplayer4000]

Bruce: try a piece of piano wire, tinned, as a replacement.

 

[Ventura]

Unless the spring is broken or bent I usually find that by giving the spring a twist then a new contact surface is presented to the common bar. Avoids replacing the spring.

Regards, Lino
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hey Lino

how you doin ?

glad you made it over to join us..

ciao

 

[Lino1]

Ciao,

I'm doing well with all the accordion conversions and repairs plus new designs, as well as assembling MidiAdd adaptors.
How you doing?

I have a multitude of springs left over from converting Transicord accordions to fully MIDI output. Reduces the weight of the accordion from 13.5kg to around 7 kgs by removing all the electronics. There's about 250 springs that are left in accordion and that I will not be using or needing.

Here's instructions I put together regarding cleaning the spring contacts for MidiAdd customers who had intermittent note sounds.

Cheers from Down-Under