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From: Alex Blakemore
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 04:08
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 04:08
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In article <1992Aug21.192538.8459@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> ede978e@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Robert D. Nicholson) writes: > Can somebody explain how to clean out the gunk in my keyboard? this worked for my new style keyboard - no guarantees 1. take off some keys by pulling straight up with needle nose pliers. the space bar lets you clean more but is hard to replace. 2. clean 3. replace keys under the space bar is a thin metal rod - it needs to snap into the two small plastic slots under the key. the only way I could reposition it was to 1. put on the space bar, 2. take out the screws from the back 3. gently pry up the top (partly), 4. snap the rod in place using a thin screwdriver reaching in between the two keyboard halves 5. replace the screws, making sure the rubber seal is in place. its nice to have a clean keyboard again. P.S. you can also try shaking it upside down before going through all this. -- --------------------------------------------------- Alex Blakemore alex@cs.umd.edu NeXT mail accepted
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!nsisrv!mimsy!alex From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Cleaning the keyboard Message-ID: <59828@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 24 Aug 92 04:08:49 GMT References: <1992Aug21.192538.8459@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 27