SR-52A rebuild project (SR-52A 942058 LTA4176)

[albertofenini]

Hi everyone
raining Sunday so we worked a little at the bench on this unit
not much success though...

the faceplate, after we changed the bi adhesive, is a bit better but the thinner one we used
is not so strong ... as a result the faceplate between some keys is not as flat as we would like

the idea of using a connector for the keyboard was good but the wires we used were too rigid and
too thick, handling the keyboard for re assembly had damaged the traces on the
keyboard board, so we went for something thinner which we soldered

we have left the connector as removing it could have possibly damaged the traces
on the main pcb

all in all and considered what was this before is not bad

sadly the card reader behavior is become very unreliable and it reads one card out of ten
we think that is possibly due to the size of the roller, which was good for the other three units
we restored but not for this, although when the unit was dismantled it was steadily reading
we will try something different and post here the progress

updated album here : SR-52A rebuild project (SR-52A 942058 LTA4176)

as always any suggestion is welcome !!
take care !!