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From: 840445m@aucs.UUCP (Mic Mac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sticky Amiga 1000 keyboard
Summary: oil
Keywords: Help needed, keyboard, A1000
Message-ID: <1682@aucs.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 89 18:26:32 GMT
References: <2232@cps3xx.UUCP>
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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In article <2232@cps3xx.UUCP>, usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes:
> 
> I know this went around before, but...
> How do you fix sticky keys on a A1000 keyboard??
> I am just starting to have problems, but it will likely get worse.

When it went around before someone suggested to grease the keys with olive 
oil or something like that.  

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!! DONT'T TRY THIS OR YOU WILL ONLY MAKE THINGS WORSE !!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I did it and it fixed the keyboard for about 2 months.  After this the
keys were so gummed up that I had to purchase a new keyboard!

I discovered that keys will stick for two different reasons:
	1) If there is excessive friction bewtween the key shaft and the 
	   hole it sticks out of
	2) The key cap (thing you press) is a bit too tight to allow free
	   movement over the little ridge underneath.

I discovered this after I greased my keyboard since the grease job fixed #1
but did not fix #2.  I suspect that #2 can be fixed by whittling a little 
piece off the underneath ridge, although I have not tried it myself.  I am
not sure of how to fix #1

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