14 Jun
2013
14 Jun
'13
10:03 a.m.
On Fri, 14 Jun 2013, Henk Stegeman wrote:
I have an original IBM model M keyboard (US 101-key
layout, P/N 1391401).
This keyboard dropped very hard on the ground. IBM made these keyboards very
robust, but this treatment was too much.
The black support frame with all the chimney is cracked completely.
(this happend before I removed it from the metal base plate :-)
See: http://www.ibmsystem3.nl/downloads/Model_M_1385796.jpg
Does anyone know a source for this black support frame P/N 1385796 ?
(besides buying a donor keyboard)
Do we know what type of plastic this part was made from? If it isn't made
from something like nylon (which many cheap keyboards
use), it might be
possible to solvent weld it back together.