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- From: johnf@gnh-digibits.cts.com (John Fulton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: a hint about sticky keyboards
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.111648.23362@crash.cts.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 11:16:48 GMT
- Sender: news@crash.cts.com
- Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
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- >
- > A hint to those who think their GS keyboards are starting to wear out.
- > Mine was starting to have problems: some keys (notably 'e') sticking,
- > others barely working. I thought I'd open it up and see how hard fixing
- > the individual keys would be. (It doesn't look like something I'd want
- > to undertake.) It turned out the thing was plumb full of dust (in my
- > case, a lot of it being cat hair -- we have three of them.) A few
- > vigorous minutes with a vacuum and its working almost as good as new.
- > (I doubt that unless one had a VERY STRONG vacuum one could clean it out
- > without opening it up.)
- >
- Another reason to buy one of those plastic keyboard covers. I've bought
- two -- one for my no-longer-used GS keyboard, and one for the Mac II
- (IBM-style) keyboard I now use on my GS. The membrane, which you
- really can't detect when using, not only protects against dust, it also
- protects against coffee, colas, cigarette ashes, kids' crayon shavings --
- whatever. You can even wash the keyboard in the sink, as long as the water
- runs off the top and DOESN'T get into vents/holes on the bottom.
- Over the years, I've see lots of keyboards ruined or temporarily disabled
- by colas and dandruff (yep, human-stuff) and even paperclips. The $20 to $40
- for a membrane-type cover is money well spent.
-