On Sun, 29 Apr 2018, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
So that's the answer: graphite powder. I now have
a working analyzer
again. It will be interesting to see if the graphite wears off
eventually, I suppose it might but that's ok, I can just do it again.
Many years ago I used graphite obtained from a soft pencil to revive
rubber keyboard pads and from my observation it wore rather quickly, in
particular moving to the surface contact was made against. I wonder if
there is a non-industrial way to make graphite stay in place on rubber.
Maciej