Roland EP-09 Skip-bin find and restoration
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- I saw this old Roland EP-09 in a skip-bin on a driveway so knocked on the door of the house and asked if I could take it. It is nothing special but does have a nice vintage sound to it so I spent a couple of days repairing and cleaning it to bring it back to its former glory.
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Its a shame he stopped making videos, was enjoying seeing them, although i only discovered his channel now, hope all is well with him.
Markus, hope all is well. Miss your fantastic videos.
i always enjoy your restorations. remembered your channel when watching some other teardowns recently. hope you're keeping busy and still jamming. take it easy
So satisfying. Excellent work!
Thanks Alex.
These really are great vintage video game sounding keyboards for the price.Great work alot of patience went into it. My favorite Roland electric piano would be the roland EP-11 I made a video showcasing it check it when you have time. Thanks!! th-cam.com/video/1QyOlwLcDr8/w-d-xo.html
"I've always got spares!" - Only Markus Fuller 😆
lol When I need a switch, I always have every type in the book _except_ the one I need...
glad to see you back !
Hey Markus........where are you?? We're missing you and your videos!
Markus is a total Wizard man!
Thankyou Michael
hope everythings ok, missing your fixit videos
Damn that's a nice resto!
I need skip bin like yours in my neighbourhood!
Hope all is well, hope to see more videos from ya, Happy New Year
Dang thats nice to find....I need one lol
What a lucky keyboard being found by markus fuller! Welcome back! And nice video, thanks!
Dude, you find this in the trash! Unbelievable. And nice work.
Yes it was in the trash waiting to go to the landfill I guess.
@@markusfuller A lot of good stuff seems to go to land fill, recycling way before their time. For a sake of watching a few videos on how to repair electronics and then having a go with a solder and iron. You save a bomb! Watching you gave me some idea on sorting out my Kurzweil K2600xs, and repairing my PC speakers, (damaged solder joint)
Nice find :D
Cheers
Daniel of Eat and Listen channel
Great job 👍🏻
Hope all's well Markus, missing your excellent vids.
skiptastic find, nice one
Just sayin hi. Miss your videos!! Hope all is well.
Hi to you too :-) yes all is well Thankyou very much.
Lovely to see a new video from you Markus. I hope all is well with you.
Thanks Ian all is well. I’m just waiting for this covid lockdown to be lifted so I can get back to the carboot sales again.
@@markusfuller Stay safe Markus and lovely to hear from you. Here in Austria our lockdown has now been extended to the 2nd May and we have a 24 hour curfew as well so we can only go out for work, Health or food or exercise but then again, our mortality rates and infection rates are very low compared to the UK so I can deal with that. I have my second Pfizer jab tomorrow so hopefully that will help things! Good luck with the car boot sales and remember to wear an FFP2 grade mask which is the only mask we are allowed to wear here now as it is much more effective than normal masks.
6:43 I have exactly the same Solder Sucker. Blue Anodised Aluminium Top & Bottom.
I love your channel and videos , you bring comfort
Thank you 🙂
BRILLIANT MARCUS ITS AMAZING WHAT YOU CAN FIND THESE DAYS .
Amazing what can be done with other people’s rubbish. Very enjoyable.
Thanks Nigel. and I have plenty of my own rubbish here of my own :-)
@@markusfuller ha you mean Jason 😂
CONCERTSEC Nigel Dawes I’m saying nothing 🤭
nice to see you back, good luck with your boot fair hunting.
It's been nice to see you are here again. Thank you, Markus.
What a great day, Markus is fixing something!
Have a nice weekend.
Good to see a new video upload. 👍
Yay he’s back!!
Nice work!
Good to see you back. Especially with a synth repair vid. Thanks
Wow, imagine finding that!
Very nice work. Thanks for sharing this with us.
I love your videos! Thanks!
It's so nice to watch one of your fixit videos again. I'm excited to see what you find at the carboot sales. I bet people have been eager to clean out their houses, so there might be some very interesting things!
Hi Patrick. yes I’m looking forward to the carboot sales.
I just bought one st a recycle shop in very good condition working for -¥4400 around $39 With à phaser effect sound so good
Good restoration! I like the way you say Hoover hehe
Yes I guess Im so used to calling the vacuum cleaner by a brand name and the vacuum cleaner I have is not even a hoover brand.
Cruise!
Cracking Job Markus. Always nice to just find reflowing old solder solves the problem!
Yesssssss, so happy for a new video. Love your work man.
What a little innocent electronic piano. So glad you saved it :-)
Nice. Thanks for saving this one and sharing it here on youtube :)
Great job man! Some beginner with no money would kill to have a item like that.
Excellent find and easy repair.
Hello Mark! Congratulations on restoring that keyboard! Thanks for the video. :)
Thanks Thomas. I hope all is well. must catch up one day.
@@markusfuller All is well. Yes, we definitely need to tag-up, once I get Skype working, again.
Nice repair - not Roland's finest instrument, but great to see it saved. Particularly liked your attention to detail with the dust guards on the sliders and switches.
Thank you Chris.
Great video Markus
Nice find... Few hundred they fetch too...
Brilliant!
I've got the same desoldering tool. Also from the 80s.
Fantastic, bring on the car boots!
It's always good to see a new video from you, Markus. A good find and a very good restoration. I find that putting keys through the dishwasher works well and saves effort, but then I'm lazy :-)
I just used a large bowl with washing up liquid and soaked them overnight. I have not got a dishwasher oh hang on I do it’s me LOL
Bought one around 1982... Was actuelly my very first keyboard. Can't remember the price but is was cheap as I was student and had no money.
Yes Im pleased I got one now. It has a really nice sound to it.
Wow! As a youngster I lusted over the Roland EP-09. How could someone just throw it away?!
I'm pleased I saved it from the landfill.
Well, when knobs and sliders don't work anymore or crackle, your kids won't play it anymore, and you're not willing to sp3nd money on it, and don't want potential buyers to get angry at you for things not working and you have a lot of other things to do, and you're not tech-savvy....
This kind of stuff really pisses me off. People throw way too much away!
Oh well, more for you :D
Amazin find!
That EP-09 was lucky you happened to be walking past it !! I once tried to save a Roland E-20 in the electrical skip at our local tip - but the guys who worked there said it was too far out of reach and wouldn't let me try. Pity as it looked undamaged. Definitely landfill now :-(
Top explained Best Regards from Barcelona José Movilandia 😎💥💥👍
No way you found it in a bin! 😍
Great restoration Markus. The sounds it makes are typical of the era but yet still quite listenable. Nice to see you back on TH-cam. Best wishes to you and Jason.
Thank you Alan
Thanks Markus! I love your videos so much. You got the perfect mix between Engineering/ repair and Synth/ music. Your you tube videos are the perfect companion for sitting at the bench with my soldering iron!
Thank you very much John.
Very nice! I recently got a broken Roland SA-09 for a good price and got it working again. Now I'm annoyed that I didn't make a video about it. Well, next time. 😅
Thanks for your instructive videos! 👍
Why do I never find things like this laying about??? Good on you, Markus. Always love seeing your videos
I did see an old Casio synth outside someones house once. The sort that John Shuttleworth uses, wish I'd nabbed it.
My mate found a Korg 700 preset but out on bin night.
@@mastercylinder1939 Holy crap!!
@@mastercylinder1939 wow life can be sweet
Who could throw that in the trash?
Great restoration, and good tips on what to look for when stuff isn't working right.
Great channel. I hope you are doing okay, you haven't made any videos in a while. Cheers.
it's a pretty nice looking synth
6:48 almost exact year vintage stain ... on vintage synth : no compatibility issues
alway enjoy your repair restore videos !! especially the trick you found in 9:40 (using the "slider box" as a bridge) which is a nice trick but also the weak point of such a design (dried joints may occur more frequently on such sliders)
-> putting extra wiring would help here to "sustain" the whole set for the next 40 years ?
the next 40 years :-) it will certainly outlive me then LOL
@@markusfuller and me too 🤣 ... theses things are built like "tanks", compared to what we have nowadays : the only problem is to find specific spare parts 40 years latter (or possibly 80 years ... with possibly even more difficulties 🤣)
Yeaa!!! Great restoration...I was wondering if you would have dismounted the keyboard for cleaning!
Glad i dismounted it as there was so much dirt under there.
Wow Markus I doubt one of those has ever received such love. Mad to think that little jewel almost ended up at the tip... Until you wandered past! It may be limited, but what it can do is nice and there's no arguing with the price!
Its sad to think how many keyboards are in the landfill. Im glad I saved this one.
That’s a brilliant restoration! Thank you for the video
Great work. That does have a nice sound.
Great find! and nice repair :)
I just love Brits :D You have the coolest names for stuff
Which ones are you referring to?
Word of warning re: Deoxit products. Be good and darn sure you only use the F5 Faderlube on pots. DO NOT use the D5 Contact Cleaner! That's only for switch contacts and jacks/plugs. It will clean the carbon resistive element right out of a pot. :D
Wow, that turned out brilliantly! Very entertaining to watch too :-)
Thanks Daan
I love to watch your videos! Repairing old vintage gear is the way forward in our world.
I am in SF and I just found one on the sidewalk by Alamo Square. It has broken switches as well and does not power on.
Ill be fixing it real soon!
Thank you for the awesome video.
markus we are all waiting for your push3 teardown :)
Great to see such a clear and nice video from Markus. It was quite a soothing and satisfying experience to watch this restoration. Thank you!
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Always enjoy your restoration videos! Great job!
Thank you Marc
Always lovely content, very informative! Picked up an old JX-3P, and I'll certainly be using some of your pointers across a variety of your videos in restoring that!
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The one and only important question: If Markus makes videos (or other intresting stuff) somwhere else on other platform, then where is it? I dont want to miss it. Thank You!
Thankyou very much. I don’t make any more videos elsewhere, I just simply retired and dont make repairs anymore. I am truly sorry about that though Im always thinking one day I should get back into it just for a little longer. best wishes.
Disgusting on the outside, disgusting and broken on the inside, nice job fixing it.
I'm impressed that you have so much fitting replacement parts for this ~40 years old tech.
I’m lucky to have a good stash of vintage parts. they are like the family jewels to me.
Hi Markus love all your videos!
I know you don't really do repairs requests anymore but do let me know in case you are interested in helping a Fisher SC-300 get back to life
Hi Ever Lilith ,I’m bery Sorry but I decided to retire a while ago and only make these few videos to try and share something. I pick up a few items from car boot sales occasionally and sometimes make a video but I already have several keyboards and other things stacked in my garage that I just cannot find time to repair myself. my apologies.
Great to hear from you Markus!
Edit: no psu recap?
the Caps all looked Ok to me, no leaks no bulging and the power output voltages were spot on.
ah i once scored one of these with a silver roland gigbag. had to hock it!
Funnily enough I found an OSCar in a skip back in the mid 80s.
Funny to think there was a brief period around that time where analog synths were not wanted.
Its sad to think how many synths have ended up in landfills over the years.
Noticed Mark hasn't published anything for over 2 years... Mark, hope all is well and look forward to hearing from you soon. 😊
Hi yes im still around. I kinda retired from making repairs and just could not find anything that needed repairing so never got sround to makimg any videos. I still have the camera and gear so maybe if i get some free rime I will try and do something for a youtube video. best wishes to you all.
hi Marcus , i got a modal Sculpt se , after 2 days of use , i got no sound from the unit , it would be very helpfull if you do a teardown of this little synth , thanks for sharing all the teardown you have made , i always learn something new
Great find there markus! Sounds very 70s will you sell it on?
I tend to try and keep these things rather than selling. maybe one day I could open a museum as I have far too many keyboards here.
@@markusfuller Great idea, there are computer museums popping up now. Will you do a video of your collection sometime? be great to see what other gems you own.
whered you go?
Hi Markus! Love this video. A simple piano, but still a piece of Roland hisry, andmaybe useful for something,if only to learn how to play keyboards. It's been too long since you posted anything, so I hope you're doing OK!
Hi Markus haven’t seen you for ages are you still doing videos 🤔 lovely job on this restoration 👍
Hi Steve. I have not made any videos for a long time as i have been busy doing other work. I havnt really been getting anything from the carboot sales so nothing to repair. sorry about that.
@@markusfuller no problem Markus I was a little worried but glad all is well 👍 I love to restore old guitars and synths to but I moved to the Isle of Bute a few years back and there is not much here
Kind regards
Steve 🏴
This could possibly be the same model of the keyboard that UB 40 used in "King" ....
hi Markus we need a tear down on the Roland alpha Juno 1 and answer the question are the oscillators analog or digital? I think your the best person to answer that question!
Hi Michael I only use to tear down things I actually owned for myself and I have not done a teardown for a long time now as I have not bought any new gear. I do not know if the oscillators are analog or digital. surely there should be something on google about it ?.
Markus the Roland alpha Juno is an oldie from the mid eighties that’s the one used in the famous Hoover sounds they can be had cheap especially under the hs10 synth plus name same synth but for the home consumer.there are conflicting vies if it’s analog dco or full digital dco all six voices are in one chip love the synth never the less
@@michaelpierce3264 Yes it is a nice synth and I would certainly grab hold of one if i can get it at a good price. a friend of mine has one and i had a go on it a long time ago. sounds great.
Hi Marcus Great video, I have one of these keyboards with a broken switch, do you know where I could get a replacement from cheers Simon
Hi Simon. which switch is broken ?. I got mine off a different old roland keyboard that was beyond repair but I dont think you can find them new any more. I think syntaur in the usa sells parts for old keyboards. where abouts on the globe are you ?.
@@markusfuller Hi Markus I’m in the uk, will check which one is broken and drop you another message, many thanks Simon
It's lucky it found it's way into your hands.