looking for keytronics keyboard pad replacement kit

Santo Nucifora santo.nucifora at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 06:46:06 CST 2016


I've had good luck with  Apple Lisa's, Processor Technology Sol-20s,
Dynalogic Hyperions and a TRS-80 model II keyboard.  I make my own with
weather stripping (sticky on one side), two sided tape and silver gift
wrapping (mylar).  I would re-use the original plastic disk (after cleaning
them up) or I cut out overhead projector transparancies if I had to.  It is
a chore but I made hundreds once and am almost out now.

Here's a pic:
http://vintagecomputer.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/keyboard-foam-pads.jpg

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 7:19 AM, Peter Cetinski <pete at pski.net> wrote:

> I haven't had the greatest success with the Mylar blankets on my Tandy
> 6000 keyboards.  Some of the keys would act flaky and result in garbage
> characters on the screen.  I had to replace those problematic keys with
> original discs.  But, I rebuilt a Model II keyboard where the blanket discs
> work fine.  I think the properties of those keytronic discs are slightly
> different.
>
> Pete
>
> > On Dec 12, 2016, at 9:55 AM, Kyle Owen <kylevowen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > If it's not too much trouble, emergency blankets (aluminized mylar, I
> > believe) work well for these keyboards, so long as you get them in the
> > right direction, mylar side towards the keyboard. Seems like you could
> buy
> > those, then stick them on the mylar and quickly cut them out.
> >
> > Kyle
>


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