Help! wireless Les Paul guitar red button not working!
Help please guys N girls ive got a wireless Les Paul guitar and the red button just decides to stop working, Ill be half way through a rift playing along and then the red button will just stop working unless you bash it really hard (and that cant be right), and then it sometimes sticks in place.
Any ideas whats up with it, all the other buttons work fine.
I can only think i might need to clean it. Do i need to clean it and if i do how do you clean it as it appears to be a sealed unit?
Re: Help! wireless Les Paul guitar red button not working!
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Originally Posted by ajwatson
Ok well ive read that other thred and its similar to me however ive not got the privlige of being able to take mine back to the shop!
So ive looked at the bak of the guitar and there not screwed with normal screws they look like star heads whats that all about?
How do you actually clean it when uve got it open?
I'm guessing you read this already, but as I said in the other thread, check the connectors on the circuit board at the base of the fret board. If they're covered in black dots you might be able to clean them off with a dry cotton bud. That is more than likely to be the cause of the trouble, rather than the fret button itself being damaged (although you may have messed it up by pressing it too hard).
As for the screwdriver, as I already said, you need a Torx T10 to the get the screws out. However, I would check the connectors on the circuit board first before you pull it apart.
Re: Help! wireless Les Paul guitar red button not working!
Arh sory mate cheers for the response, i didn't understnad what you were saying at first however after detaching the neck and looking at the arse end i found the green circuit board with the brass disc's you spoke of, sure enough they had little black dots on them, i have tryed to clean them with a cotten bud however they don't seem to wanna shift. Is there any cleaning fluid i could use to help get these off?
Re: Help! wireless Les Paul guitar red button not working!
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Originally Posted by ajwatson
Arh sory mate cheers for the response, i didn't understnad what you were saying at first however after detaching the neck and looking at the arse end i found the green circuit board with the brass disc's you spoke of, sure enough they had little black dots on them, i have tryed to clean them with a cotten bud however they don't seem to wanna shift. Is there any cleaning fluid i could use to help get these off?
I've re-edited my post after realising that some of it made no sense.
Anyway, I suspect that if the dots won't shift with a dry cotton bud, then the connectors are gored meaning they are damaged and the problems will only get worse. Sadly, this is quite a common problem with this guitar (despite its brilliance when it works properly). At this point I'm pretty much out of ideas as fixes seem to either revolve around the use of a soldering iron, which is something I know nothing about or getting a new one.
When this happened to me, I ended up getting a new one via the HMV £35 for GHIII bundle deal and then selling the sealed game and old Les Paul on eBay (I did sell it as faulty!), which pretty much made back the £35 outlay.
Other than that I'm not sure what else to suggest.
Re: Help! wireless Les Paul guitar red button not working!
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Originally Posted by ajwatson
wicked i can uderstand that thiis would stop the neck from wolbleing but how does it prevent laggy buttons????
Im going to give it ago cheers
By making the neck stable so it doesn't rock around the contact between the neck and body PCB's remains perfect. When the neck wobbles it actually rubs the contacts away which is what eventually causes unresponsiveness in the buttons, doing this can keep the two halves in good contact so the problem doesn't occur. Of course if your contact plates are damaged too much in the neck already then this will not make a difference.
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, i didn't understnad what you were saying at first however after detaching the neck and looking at the arse end i found the green circuit board with the brass disc's you spoke of, sure enough they had little black dots on them, i have tryed to clean them with a cotten bud however they don't seem to wanna shift. Is there any cleaning fluid i could use to help get these off?
i can uderstand that thiis would stop the neck from wolbleing but how does it prevent laggy buttons????
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