Anyone know where to find Lexicon PCM70 buttons?

tubejay · Mar 24, 2009

I bought PCM70 used and it came missing a couple buttons. Everything works, it's just the button cover piece that's missing. I have a request into Lexicon, but they don't support the PCM70 anymore, so I'm no holding my breath there. Anyone have a broken PCM70 that's broken where you'd sell me a couple buttons? I'd pay $10 a button.

Thanks,

Jay

tubejay · Mar 25, 2009

Lexicon support can't help. They don't have parts and don't have any advice on who to contact to find them. That seems to be typical of Lexicon. They really like to wash their hands of their popular legacy equipment, it seems.

Anyone have any advice on where to go to find these buttons? It's the 0 and the 5 button cap that's missing.

SSLtech · Mar 25, 2009

They haven't made this piece for well over a decade... it's probably closer to a quarter-century old. They would make no money from supporting it, nor generate sales.

Since then of course they have also become absorbed into the evil empire which worships at the altar of free enterprise, and reveres profit over service. They have also moved their entire location two or three thousand miles in one compass direction, and much of their manufacturing even further in the OTHER direction.

Every spare part stocked from obsolete models was presumably evaluated, and the cost of maintaining it in the system versus the possible financial gain from supplying occasional bits of plastic was determined to be a losing proposition.

Summary: The buttons can still be easily operated.. You know which ones they are. The official word from Lexicon is "deal with it".

Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings... -But don't be a stranger Jay!

Keith

Stagefright13 · Mar 25, 2009

You might try posting at gearslutz.com in the geekslutz thread. I know sounds Corney but may help you. There is someone on there with a bunch of Primetime parts... So ya never know. But someone may still know what plastic switch tops you need on here. So I gave ya a bump!

John

tubejay · Mar 26, 2009

Good news!

Thanks for the replies guys! I actually tracked down a set from studio electronics in Burbank, California. Unfortunately it was missing the zero. I figure I can make the 9 the 6 or the 8 into a zero and be happy with that.

I'm sure I'll hang on to these, so if anyone reads this down the road, even a couple years, feel free to email me and I'll sell the buttons to you for roughly what I paid, which was $5 a piece.

I can't believe I actually tracked a set down. I'm so happy I could cry. :'(