Removing knobs?
I am working on my LED Mod for my vci-100 and have encountered a problem: I cant get the knobs of, so how do you remove the knob-caps (not fader caps)?
I guess it is necesary to remove the knobs to get the main print of, to get to the LEDs on the top half on the controller. Correct me if i’m wrong.
Any ideas are much apreciated.
Anyone who has tried removing the knobs?
Someone had recommended using dental floss to pull them off…maybe that will work.
Just pull gentle without fear, thats how I did it. They feel like there stuck but there not. Just have to feel comfortable about removing such knobs.
Mine were stuck on with glue !
The dental floss idea was mine, i saw someone use something similar on youtube - id recommend that appraoch.
Dental floss is for the fader caps, right? It is not possible to get dental floss underneath the knobs.
I have tried pulling them as hard as i can, but they dont come of!
@Bento: You said that yours were glued on. Then how did you get them of?
You can get it under the knobs if you use a small skrew driver to stuff it under them, if that gets annoying then pry them off with a couple skrewdrivers - but be really careful your dont scratch the unit or the knobs.
Ok - after a one hour battle, the dental floss prevaled! My knobs were glued on as well so it took some serious power-pulling and 4 layers of floss!
Haha its better that than risking damaging the device 
Glad to hear you got them off !
Crazy mine weren’t, probably not as much glue. Cheers with the success.
Thanks guys! Now Im facing the challenges of soldering the LEDs, without ruining the small circuits on the circuit board. Not an easy task…
just take away the iron every once in a while. Don’t over heat everything and all that. You should do great.
The glue thats left on the knobs is enough for them to stick back down firmly too, so no need to reapply any glue.
Hey guys, thanks for the advices. As for the soldering, I have experience. Still I find those small suckers (the curciuts) very fragile. But I will prevale!
can you direct me to that youtube vid?