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+====== Tip from kartodesk on keeping on smooth travel after removing detents from SoundWell encoder  ======
+Hi all. \\
+First, there's extensive info about the encoders on [[http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php/topic,10184.0.html|this forum thread]] to read. \\
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+The encoders i received were from mc4 batch, identical encoders to those Wilba pictured and organized the sales earlier. \\
+Their name is SoundWell rotary encoders (like ALPS STEC16B, "Voti" encoders). \\
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+The pics are here for convenience. (Wilba and MC4 took the shots)
+{{http://www.synthware.com/cms/images/stories/electronics/soundwell_encoders/16w800/Encoder_0423_800.jpg}} \\
+{{http://members.optusnet.com.au/~wilba6581/SoundWell_Encoder_1.jpg}} \\
+When you open the encoder (might be done using kind of miniature screwdriver or similar), \\
+the key to the smooth travel of encoder shaft - is absolute care of the inner circle where collectors travel. \\
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+**Any inaccurate screwdriver mark made while opening the encoder will result you in jerky feeling when sealed back.** \\
+**After bending the tabs up (of the lowest metallic part, pictured above) in order to disassemble the unit, please DO NOT put your instrument \\
+into highlighted areas (below) where thin plastic part could be deformed by your tool.** \\
+{{http://believe.mytinydream.com/bits/1.gif}} \\
+{{http://believe.mytinydream.com/bits/2.jpg}} \\
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+These are sensitive areas, the weak points. \\
+**keep your tool somewhere else and you're fine.** \\
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+Also as Wilba suggested the detent could been bent just a little to make a less tactile detent. \\
+It works, although more careful and attentive work is required.\\
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+In general, when you remove detents, you loose the tight feel and they begin feeling 'oiled', \\
+ exactly that feeling of steering wheel of old car against the modern hydraulics. Take this into consideration too.\\
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+Best to all.