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During the 1990s, Rodgers was owned by Roland and used their technology for keys. Roland selected a glue to retain key weights that ultimately ended up liquifying and making the keyboards unplayable. The worst formulation was pink but some versions are white. Rodgers replaced the affected manuals for a long time but their stock has completely run out and is not made any more, so there are quite a few very nice organs from this era that are essentially dead for this reason.
I bought this organ in non-working condition with the intention of throwing the manuals and electronics away and constructing a virtual pipe organ using a computer and some Allen manuals I bought separately, but the organ is so nice and the glue problem was reasonably mild, so I decided to try fixing it instead. Here I show how I did it, including various mistakes.
By the way, not long after this, the organ stopped working again. Power supply was bad. Luckily I was able to replace it with a generic power supply (the Mean Well RT-125B) that only cost about $30. Then I wired the outputs to a set of 6 JBL 305P monitors and a sub. Now it looks great and works perfectly.