Dirty (plastic) Drawbars

[peblo25]

Hi! My name is Peblo, and I am from Spain.
I purchased a T500 and have tried to follow along the Keyboardpartner instructions for some months but seems I am getting nowhere. There is one piece that is freaking me out, and that is the plastic drawbars, they were a bit scratchy at first when I purchased it, so I tried to dissasemble them and give them a good clean. To get the crap and the crud out from the little rods that are in the enclosure I tried sanding them a bit, and the same with the little dots that are in the other metal piece that in theory makes contact w the big variable resistor. It was a really little sanding and I just removed the crap,and made sure I didnt get any material off. It seems to have gotten worse though, and I dont know what to try anymore. I saw this video of a man cleaning the drawbars of a model H Hammond organ that look the same as my T500 ones, and he advised not to use anything abrassive with the contacts, so I dont know if I actually made irreparable damage to them or I could restore them some way.

Here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoQ4KSqYF7I

[Bobmann]

You may have done irreparable damage. Hard to say without seeing what they look like now.

Bob