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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: repeating key -- how can I fix?
Message-ID: <12753@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 2 May 90 04:51:01 GMT
References: <90121.013243BRL102@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory
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In article <90121.013243BRL102@psuvm.psu.edu> BRL102@psuvm.psu.edu (Ben Liblit) writes:
>Recently the "i" key on my Apple //e keyboard has been a bit ... enthusiastic.
>For each press, I tend to get anywhere from two to six "i"'s instead of just
>one.  This seems to happen most often when I'm typing at a good clip, rather
>than pausing longer between keystrokes.
>Does anyone know what could be causing this?  More importantly, is this a
>repair job I can pull off myself, or will I need to send the thing out to the
>repair shop?

Sounds like contact bounce, probably aggravated by crud on the contacts.
You can clean the contacts with a 1/8" wide strip of business card once
you carefully pull off the key cap.  Hold the shank of the plunger down
with the card inserted between the contacts, then pull the card through
the contacts a couple of times.

I take no responsibility if you manage to break the keyboard trying to
pull of the key cap.