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Fantom G8 Rattles (Not Stop Button)

26 Jan 2010, 14:41
Hi,

My G8 rattles when I play keys on the left half of the keyboard. The rattle sounds like mechanical vibrations coming from the left side the keyboard. It is not the Stop buttom (I already fixed that!). If I press firmly on the metal area below the sliders, sometimes the noise goes away and sometimes the black metal edge infront of the keys (the front bottom edge of the keyboard) begins to vibrate. It seems like the keybed might be loose and vibrations created when pressing keys are transmitted to other parts of the keyboard causing the rattle noise. Has anyone else experienced this? I was thinking of removing the side panels and the black metal edge to see if the keybed is loose. Has anyone opened their G8 before? Any tips or suggestions?

Re: Fantom G8 Rattles (Not Stop Button)

26 Jan 2010, 20:13
Yah, my G8 rattled too on the left side panel. I loosened the screws just enough to slip a slit of black EZ Felt and tightened down the screws. Was a quick fix.

Re: Fantom G8 Rattles (Not Stop Button)

27 Jan 2010, 04:56
My G7 does that on the right...

Always wanted to fix that, but waiting for the one-year warranty to expire, so I do not void it opening it by myself (just in case if something really bad comes up, they can't argue about repairing/replacing the whole stuff.)

Re: Fantom G8 Rattles (Not Stop Button)

27 Jan 2010, 08:21
My G7 had a terrible rattle which ended up being the RAM expansion cover underneath. No amount of adjusting or tightening would get rid of it so I ended up putting pieces of tape around the edges of the cover - problem solved.

Re: Fantom G8 Rattles (Not Stop Button)

27 Jan 2010, 12:54
Hi kenchan,

Thanks for the tip on the left side panel. I will try it out. I hope it will fix my rattling problem!

Re: Fantom G8 Rattles (Not Stop Button)

28 Jan 2010, 18:00
Hi All,

it's quite a long time ago when I decided to post this thread but meanwhile I had a lot joy with our new born baby. So I do it now.
It was realy anoying to hear the rattle sound emitted mainly by vibrating "Play", "Stop" and "Record" buttons when playing my FG. The other rattle sound emitters were Flat Flexible Cables inside FG.
Disassembly is quite easy but takes a lot of time. You have to dismantle a few PCBs to get PCB with the desired buttons. The buttons were pretty loose so I put pieces of self adhesive felt on them as you can see at the picture.
I also fixed the cables with double sided self sealing tape as you can also see at the pictures.
The rattle sound was eliminated and playing FG is now only a pleasure.

Re: Fantom G8 Rattles (Not Stop Button)

31 Jan 2010, 17:12
I just wanted to thank you! xI just needed waking up!

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