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From: srt@cos.com (Stan R. Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A500 keyboard
Message-ID: <18446@cos.com>
Date: 23 May 89 21:41:01 GMT
References: <0370.AA0370@americ> <11738@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: srt@cos.UUCP (Stan R. Turner)
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Organization: Corporation for Open Systems, McLean, VA
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In article <11738@s.ms.uky.edu> phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti) writes:
>In article <0370.AA0370@americ> erk@americ.UUCP (Erick Parsons) writes:
>>I have about 3 bad keys on my kboard that will
>>not do nuttin. I have been dissambling the kboard and placing the culprits in
>>non essential positions (i.e. the supervisor key :-) but am running out of
>>essential keys slowly but surely. Finding keys for this beast is like finding
>>gold in seawater. I would be willing to pay up to $50.00 US for a dead board
>>WITH all keys...
>
>Have other people been having this problem? The 0 key on my number pad went
>out in the same way - I opened the keyboard up and glued a strip of aluminium
>foil over the contact bridge to fix it. Does having this problem at all mean
>that you're doomed to slowly "aluminium-ize" your entire keyboard? Or is
>this a rare problem that happens to be hitting me lightly and Erick with
>a hammer?

  I had the same thing happen to my right shift key on my A500.  I
tried to figure out why the little piece of conductive rubber stopped
conducting.  I checked to see if crud had collected on the rubber pads
but cleaning it with alcohol had no effect.  I ended up moving it to a
key on the keypad.  If I could find a source of the conductive rubber
I could cut a piece to fit but if another key breaks I may try the
"aluminium-ize" the key trick first.  
  I remember reading in an earlier posting about some other vendor's
keyboard which used the same kind of keys, but I do not remember which
vendor it was.


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