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- From: Rincewind@discworld.oche.de (Rincewind alias Michael Schwingen)
- Message-ID: <2b48a410627f0d@discworld.oche.de>
- Subject: Re: Internals of an ST keyboard
- Keywords: Replacement part needed
- Reply-To: rincewind@discworld.oche.de
- References: <H.q&CXAby59KY@zebedee.uucp>
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- Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 21:44:36 MEZ
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- In <H.q&CXAby59KY@zebedee.uucp>,
- Geoffrey Coan (geoffc@zebedee.uucp) wrote:
-
- GC>I then dismanteled the keyboard, unstuck the key and cut away the plastic so
- GC>that the key mechanism worked properly. The problem is that when I came to
- GC>put the keyboard together afterwards I discovered that I was one little
- GC>rubber 'bit' missing. The piece I am missing is about 1cm accross and
- GC>contains a small graphite block which makes the contact on the PCB.
-
- Well - I don't think you are actually *missing* one, as I think it was
- not there in the first place :-)
-
- There usually is space for two of those rubber parts under the RETURN
- key, but there is only one mounted there - so if you place two of them
- under the RETURN key, you miss one elsewhere :-)
-
- btw: if you have disassembled the whole keyboard, it might be a good idea
- to clean the gold contacts and the inner part of the rubber parts (with
- the small, round piece of conductive rubber) with a cotton-wool-tip and
- some ethanol or isopropanol alcohol (use at least 95% pure alcohol, and
- no aceton or other sharper solvents) - you get a much better keyboard
- reaction, just as if it was new :-)
-
- cu
- Michael
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- "Not matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always
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- got there first, and is waiting for it." Terry Pratchett, Reaper man
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- "And then you bit onto them, and learned once again that Cut-me-own-Throat
- Dibbler could find a use for bits of an animal that the animal didn't know it
- had got. Dibbler had worked out that with enough fried onions and mustard
- people would eat *anything*." (Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures)
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