IBM Model M keyboard repair tip

These days, it's probably against health-and-safety to allow the use of soldering irons in schools... Heck, I am told some UK universities ban studens from having soldering irons because 'they're a fire risk'. No, I don't beleive that either (particualrly as students are still allowed to smoke..) I was not taught to solder at school (although I taught myself during my school years)(. Actually, I don't think I was taught anything of use at school, I taught myself the interesting/useful bits of phuysics, mathematics, etc. Oh, I learnt plenty of things at school, like how to pick a lock, how to make a master key, intereting things with 3-phase mains and so on, but that's not what I was supposed to be learning. I also never had a teacher who inspried me. Most of them actively discouraged me... Now that would be telling... But I can reveal I had some XLR connators around... The cluelessnees of dome members of the medical profession is another subject... Suffice it to say that I don't think anybody is taught (or learns) diagnostic skills any more. You see it in the medical prforssions, you see it with electroncis (and mechanical) service engieers. And if you don't really know what the problem is I fail to see how you can ever fix it... That depends on whether I am trying to understand and modify the keboard as part of my investigations/documentation of a classic computer or whether I just want to get my PC working so I can type this e-mail. -tony