Path: utzoo!mnetor!ghp!jim From: jim@ghp.UUCP (Jim Stewart) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: remote control buttons Message-ID: <633@ghp.UUCP> Date: 10 Jul 90 19:21:01 GMT References: Reply-To: jim@ghp.UUCP (Jim Stewart) Distribution: sci Organization: Gellman Hayward & Partners Ltd. Lines: 22 In article tolboel@iesd.auc.dk (Morten Tolboel) writes: > >Many IR remote controls have rubber buttons which have some kind >of conducting material on the backside of them... > ...I could get replacement >buttons for my remotecontrol (~ $30) but I would like to know if >somebody has any experience how to replace the old conducting >layer on the backside of the buttons. I think I have the same on the keypad to my handheld radio. I had some luck just taking it appart (carefully, lots of springs, etc.) and just cleaning the contacts. It eventually returned to worse than the original state, but that was 1.5 years later. I just repeated the exercise. good luck -- Jim Stewart, VE3SRJ UUCP: jim%ghp@mnetor.uucp BELL: (416)862-0430