# Roland JD-800 Project Machine
“This incredible keyboard has seen better days, and needs a caring home. Although its MIDI functions seem to operate perfectly, and all of its sliders and buttons work fine, only about half of the keys work. About half of those keys have no velocity sensitivity. Evidently the glue that holds the weights under the keys has liquefied over time and has leaked into the keyboard innards. Apparently, this is a common enough problem that there is currently at least one YouTube video that shows you how to service the JD-800 for this particular problem.
I have confidence that the process to get this fixed may be little more than getting in there with some degree of patience and elbow grease (of which I have neither), and might even be done by a non-professional.
Let it also be known that the main LCD screen’s back light flickers a little bit. It’s been doing this for years, but it is not that noticeable, nor distracting. I also over-zealously engraved my name on it a couple of times. I just thought I should mention these things for full disclosure’s sake.
Needless to say, this auction will have a “no-returns” policy, and this keyboard and its accessories will be sold “as is”.
I bought it new 15 years ago, and it has lived in my smoke-free studios ever since. There are a couple of very small dings on it caused by it being brought along on a couple of gigs. This is also the probable cause of the screen flicker.” Link