16 Jul
2006
16 Jul
'06
6:23 p.m.
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Tony Duell wrote:
I normally take them apart as much as _I_ dare,
which may be a lot
further :-). In particular, I pull all the keycaps (after making a
diagram of their positions) and clean them with one of those foam cleaner
sprays.
The first time that you take off the space bar from the keyboard of a
5150, it's a little bit of a struggle mastering how to re-attach it. From what I remember, the procedure I use to dismantle
that keyboard goes
like that :
Remove the 2 screws on the bottom. Take off the casing, disconnect the cable.
Pull off all keycaps other than the space bar
Bend the locking tab, then slide the bottom half of the keyboard assembly
to free it from the top half
Separate the halves, remove all the 'flaps'
Dismantle the space bar
Remove the screw holding the PCB to the bottom plate, free the PCB from
the keyhole slots/studs, remove it.
-tony