Nord Lead 4: spare parts - light pipes for panel LED's - where to buy?

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Nord Lead 4: spare parts - light pipes for panel LED's - where to buy?

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Hello fellow Nord Lead users (first post, so a welcome was in order). :D

TLDR: I've broken 12 light pipes for control panel LED's, searched online but didn't find them, where to buy them? :)


I've disassembled and cleaned my Nord Lead 4. During the control panel's PCB cleanup (a soft brush + an izopropyl alcohol) some 12 of the light pipes broke off and fell out of the PCB. (Just in case: these are the clear plastic parts that sit onto the SMD LED's and transfer their light a few millimeters up, throughout the corresponding holes in the case). I didn't even suppose they could be so brittle.

I could of course glue them up but the contact area would be tiny (weak connection).

Online shops with NL4 spare parts didn't have them listed online. The official parts list in PDF doesn't specify this particular part. I've went to DigiKey and Mauser, narrowed the search parameters (plastic, PCB-mounted, specific height and diameter) but the results was plentiful and none od these I've had patience to scroll through were the ones I needed. More narrowing-down gave less but irrelevant results. Some of them even didn't have a photo or all dimensions specified.

Then I found this forum and I thought that someone has already had similar problem and found the part. ;)

I've searched the forum, found 0 results, started a new topic.
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Re: Nord Lead 4: spare parts - light pipes for panel LED's - where to buy?

Post by cookie »

Check with your official Nord dealer. I've managed to find solutions for issues with parts often.
https://www.nordkeyboards.com/distribut ... tributors/[/url]

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