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From: THROOP@GRIN1.BITNET ("Throop,Henry B")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: washing keyboard
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Date: 11 May 91 20:14:27 GMT
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OK, as per teh advice posted here, I tried washing my keyboard a couple of
days ago.  After letting it dry for a few hours, it would just give repeated
characters when no key was pressed.  The character it repeated was random, so
it wasn't just a key in permanent down position.

After letting it dry overnight, it basically worked again, except a few (4-
5?) keys didn't respond.  I then took off all the keycaps, gave it a thorough
washing again, and let it dry overnight.  Now, in addition to teh 4-5 keys
that didn't work before, thee are about a half dozen more.  Programming
without a delete key is kind of difficult :-)

Anways, it seems that the water has gotten into the contacts in the
keyswitches themselves and maybe corroded them.  Squirting electronics
cleaner stuff in there doesn't do anything.  Any other suggestions out
there?

Since the keyswitches are pretty much permanently on the keyboard, does
anyone happen to have an old ADB keyboard they might willing to part with
cheap, or have one with bad ADB connectors or keyboard encoder that they've
replaced with a new keyboard?

Thanks.

Henry

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Henry Throop
THROOP@GRIN1.BITNET
throoph@jacobs.cs.orst.edu

(P.S. The Buy-Henry-a-new-keyboard fund is now accepting donations :)