How to Replace a Speaker on a Yamaha PSS-130 Keyboard

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Steps:

1. Remove the battery cover.
2. Remove all twelve of the 9.0 mm screws on the back cover of the device's casing using a Phillips #1 screwdriver.

3. Place your fingers in the battery compartment, and place your thumb on the back of the keyboard.
4. Grip inside battery cover and push on the back of the keyboard with your thumb.

5. Replace two 9.0 mm Phillips screws to keep the keys from falling out while working on this device.

6. Rotate the keyboard to get a better angle with the soldering iron.

7. Desolder the connections of the old speaker using the soldering iron and the solder wick.

8. Remove the fasteners using an 11 mm socket wrench.
9. It will take very little torque to strip the plastic, so make sure that your wrench is turning them to the left.

10. The speaker should now be free. Simply lift the speaker out.
11. Using the same process, place the new speaker in the speaker indentation.
12. My own speaker was not malfunctioning so I did not replace it.

13. Replace the fasteners that were removed in step 6, this time tightening to the right.

14. Solder the new speaker to the wires taken off in step 5.