15 May
2007
15 May
'07
6:59 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Well, I took the one from the 'spares' machine apart as a test. Like you say,
the shift-lock switch has to be desoldered. There are 8 circular pads to keep
account of (F-keys and cursor keys) - all the other keys have the pads
attached. The only other thing is that there's a tiny spring which grounds the
keyboard's metal frame; it'd be easy to lose that.
I've since taken the good machine's keyboard apart, cleaned, dried and
reassembled it - it works like a charm now :)
It works, but
some of the keys are a bit sluggish - are there any gotchas
involved in dismantling the keyboard in order to give contacts a clean? (I
just want to check I'm not going to be faced with tiny springs going every
which way if I unscrew the backplate :-)
If it's like every other CBM keyboard I've worked on, there are no
problems. You may have to desolder wires from any latching keys (Shift
Lock or whatever), but that's fairly obvious.