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From: jbh@mb2c.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Looking for a replacement C64 Keyboard..
Message-ID: <2230@mb2c.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Mar-87 16:13:05 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 22 16:13:05 1987
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Keywords: C64, LOLIR surplus stuff


     

>  !sunybcs!ugbowen (ugbowen @ SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science)
>In article <2225@mb2c.UUCP> jbh@mb2c.UUCP (James Harvey) writes:
>>
>>The circuit board can then be removed and cleaned up with Q-Tips and rubbing
>>alcohol.  Then take a Q-Tip and alcohol and wipe down each of the conductive 
>>rubber prongs attached to the keys.
>>
>
>Radio Shack sells a solvent in a spray can with a long tube on the nozzel. It
>allows you to put the nozzel down into the keyboard without much disassembly,
>and the stuff you spray in cleans and evaporates almost instantly. I've had
>great luck with it on a number of keyboard.
>              Devon Bowen (KA2NRC)
>              University of Buffalo

This should work well if you pry the keycaps off the offending keys and
spray it right down their throats.

This week I saw an ad in "The Inputer", a magazine that appears to be sort of
a Computer Shopper for Minicomputers.  The ad was from a firm called LOLIR
with several branches shown in Texas.  The main store is at 214-234-8056. 
There were a number of Commodore surplus items in the ad, such as a new
C64 motherboard for $39.95, C64 keyboard for $9 (they also advertise a
C16 keyboard for $7 so apparently they know the difference, not like Radio
Shack), a Commodore replacement composite monitor for $20, and several
other small items.

Does anybody know anything about this firm?  I showed the ad to two friends
and they both are ordering the C64 main boards so I will soon know one way or
the other.  I have been burned by mail order firms in the past and will wait
before I order.

   Jim Harvey
   18538 Inkster
   Redford, Mich.
    48240.