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From: tcm@srhqla.SR.COM (Tim Meighan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How do I re-install space bar on IBM PC keyboard?
Keywords: IBM PC keyboard space bar
Message-ID: <1266@srhqla.SR.COM>
Date: 15 Feb 90 20:14:52 GMT
Reply-To: tcm@srhqla.SR.COM (Tim Meighan)
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Organization: Silent Radio, Los Angeles
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In article <4156@mace.cc.purdue.edu> du4@mace.cc.purdue.edu
(Ted Goldstein) writes:

>Do any of you PC hardware repair people out there have any tips on how
>to re-install the space bar on an IBM PC keyboard.

I tried to mail this first, but it kept bouncing.

1. Remove the space-bar keytop and also remove the stabilizer wire.

2. Flexing the stabilizer wire slightly, snap each end into a hole in the
plastic tabs located at each end of the underside of the keytop.  You will
now have a keytop & wire assembly.

3. Carefully slide the stabilizer wire into the horizontal slots in the plastic
support blocks mounted on the keyboard PC board.  Keep the keytop and wire
assembly together.  This is done before trying to mount the keytop on the
keyswitch, which allows you to maneuver the wire into the slots by moving the
whole assembly around as needed.  This part can be a bit tedious because 
other keytops are generally going to get in your way.

4. Very carefully position the keytop over the central keyswitch making sure
you don't let the wire disengage from either support block slot.  Then, push
the keytop onto the switch and you are done.

Tim Meighan