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- From: wampner@next1 (Eric Wampner)
- Subject: Re: 1000 keyboard (compilation)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.174410.4963@cs.ucf.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.ucf.edu (News system)
- Organization: University of Central Florida
- References: <1992Aug11.182654.10342@ninja.zso.dec.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 17:44:10 GMT
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- I would like to thank people who answered my questions, if you did so
- by mail and didn't receive a reply, your mail bounced and I havent
- had a chance to figure out why.
-
- Summary:
-
- 1000 keyboards cannot easily be taken apart.
- to remove the key actions to clean the contacts means you must de-solder
- the contacts at the bottom of the key. this is not easy, and you can mess
- up the action rather severely. I personallly ran the keyboard through the
- dish washer (with a very tiny amount of liquid soap), but then my keyboard
- bottom was completely coated with hair, dirt and a couple of newly formed
- rare earth elements. This did not solve my problem (keys moved but did not
- cause "contact", in fact it caused the same problem on several keys.
- somebody suggested silicone, and since I had a can of spray silicone, (the
- very thin, drying kind), I shot the offending keys for several seconds,
- and then with generous pressing (banging?) of the keys, they all work.
-
- again thanks to all who responded, sorry if I can't remember individuals
- name, especially the one with the silicone solution, but thanks.
-
- eric wampner
- (hmm, you know, this NeXT's key board looks like a 1000's, and dirty
- too..)
-