Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!masnet!canremote!dan.copeland
From: dan.copeland@canremote.uucp (DAN COPELAND)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: How to fix keyboard?
Message-ID: <89120107511970@masnet.uucp>
Date: 30 Nov 89 02:35:00 GMT
Organization: Canada Remote Systems Limited, Mississauga, ON, Canada
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>From: nms@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (n.m.scribner)
>Orga: AT&T Bell Laboratories
>
>I have a c64, vintage about 1986, whose space bar does not function
>every time it is struck; frequently, it takes serveral taps to get a
>space. The key does not seem to stick, or show any other obvious
>mechanical problem. Has anyone had experience fixing similar problems?

Take the keyboard apart (all 1Million little screws and unsolder the 
shiftlock key (carefully) and clean the board contacts and the key 
rubber... this will cure it for a while (my return key used to act this 
way and a cleaning used to cure it) If the conductive rubber has gone 
try swapping the space rubber with a seldom used key i.e. the back arrow
or the british pound key.
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