Best advice I can think of on this is don't toss broken keyboards, save them for parts. You might also be able to unsolder, and refurbish the keyswitch yourself. I've done this with an Apple Extended II keyboard (just to nice a keyboard to toss). With a couple of old Mac Plus's I took another broken keyboard and used it for parts to get two fully functional keyboards (the Plus it went to was also used as parts). Of course with some systems canablization isn't the answer, and depending on the system, many of us, myself included might consider it criminal :^) Zane | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator | | healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast | | healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |