Nektar Panorama P4: a new coat of paint!
Posted: 17 Jan 2021
After my 8+ year old Nektar Panorama P4 started to develop a thick sticky residue on all of the knob pots and faders (due to the cheap lame soft rubber coating Nektar chose to coat them with) from decay, I decided to strip them all with 90%+ isopropyl alcohol, hand polish with thick pile microfiber clothes, and add a new coat of paint. What do you think?
The stripping/hand polishing literally took me about 2 & 1/2 hours to get all of the sticky rubber glue crap off. I mounted them to a double-layer piece of cardboard with wooden tooth picks to hold them in place, and sprayed about 2-3 light layers with Rust-Oleum "Colonial Red".
I'm pretty happy with how they turned out, though I sort of wish I had done the single silver motorized fader cap as well. D'oh! BTW, I also had to strip the pitch bend and mod wheel, as they also developed into a sticky goo mess from the same shitty coating Nektar employed. Seriously - I don't know why manufacturers use this crap.
Anyway, here's the final end result!
The stripping/hand polishing literally took me about 2 & 1/2 hours to get all of the sticky rubber glue crap off. I mounted them to a double-layer piece of cardboard with wooden tooth picks to hold them in place, and sprayed about 2-3 light layers with Rust-Oleum "Colonial Red".
I'm pretty happy with how they turned out, though I sort of wish I had done the single silver motorized fader cap as well. D'oh! BTW, I also had to strip the pitch bend and mod wheel, as they also developed into a sticky goo mess from the same shitty coating Nektar employed. Seriously - I don't know why manufacturers use this crap.
Anyway, here's the final end result!