FIX YOUR DEAD PADS - PICS & INSTRUCTIONS INSIDE

not me lord t.

and yeah, people make a much bigger deal out of this than they should

yea im good with my pads now thanks to this thread it kept all my worries out.

seatown350 wrote:ic , but can you replace the graphite with a bigger piece, if it goes outta place ?

i tell you what, seatown might be on to something there, if you could buy this graphite sheeting, and cut it to fit to the outeredges of the pad, then you wouldn't need any glue!

yea i will do that when my pads go dead i'll cut em and fit it to tha pad cuz i dont wanna do glueing. Heres another question why do people need the vst pads ?

people need vst pads because they're under the mistaken assumption that doing it yourself will break your mpc

like they dont want to reglue the piece , instaed they buy the vst pads , right ?

seatown350 wrote:like they dont want to reglue the piece , instaed they buy the vst pads , right ?

The replacement pads from VST don't come with the connector wire, so you'd have to solder the wire yourself. Either way, it's going to be time consuming. But it's cheaper to glue the graphite instead of buying new pads.

like i said earlier , can you cut the graphite paper to the size of tha pad and not glue it , will it be tha same way ?

seatown350 wrote:like i said earlier , can you cut the graphite paper to the size of tha pad and not glue it , will it be tha same way ?

I've been giving it some thought, as well as modnar, who responded to that originally. I suppose it could work. But I'm trying to weigh out a few factors such as the exact type of material, the proper thickness, the cost of the material, and lastly, the question of whether or not the pad response will have any problems. The material may bunch up inside the pad, but I'm only guessing, based upon the quality and size of the material, along with varying types of usage depending on the individual. But anyhow, it's an idea that may be worth looking into and experimenting with. If someone else would like to research and experiment, that would be cool. But for me, I'm content with what I've done as far as replacing the glue and sticking to the original design... for now anyway.

seatown, why not just glue it?

i'd rather have the added adhesive, personally - or tape, as someone else did.

aight

Antonym wrote:seatown, why not just glue it?

i'd rather have the added adhesive, personally - or tape, as someone else did.

well it'd be simpler seatown's way. sometimes the simpler ideas are the better ones! but we don't know till someone tries it, of course. it just seems to me that the glue is always likely to break if the graphite is glued back on Akai's way. Nym's way, well it remains to be seen whether that works long term, but i'm guessing it will, but it does have the additional task of glueing/sticking the graphite to the pad. using seatown's way, i believe the material wont bunch up inside the pad as distortedtekno suggested it might, because it's not like cloth, or so i'm led to believe. Nym, what consistancy does the graphite have? i mean is it like a thinner version of credit card plastic? or what?

peace

actually, the material feels more like rubber, but not entirely. the reason i would think that replacement material could bunch up is that if it's a different type of material. also it would be wise to glue or tape the replacment material to the pad, since if it rests on the sensor, it would trigger automatically. atleast i think it might. i havent attempted to find out, since i removed the entire pad assembly plate to do my repairs. but the theory makes sense to me.

distortedtekno wrote:actually, the material feels more like rubber, but not entirely. the reason i would think that replacement material could bunch up is that if it's a different type of material. also it would be wise to glue or tape the replacment material to the pad, since if it rests on the sensor, it would trigger automatically. atleast i think it might. i havent attempted to find out, since i removed the entire pad assembly plate to do my repairs. but the theory makes sense to me.

ahh, ok, i hadn't thought of the phantom triggering. oh well, nevermind. seatown, your idea was sh*t. lol

lol it wasnt my idea i read it earlier in this forum so i was jus wounderin if you cut the graphite piece to fit the pad and stick it in ther , but heres an idea i think is good , if you cut the graphite paper to tha size of tha pad and GLUE it will it be better?