🚀 go-pugleaf

One of the keys on my (admittedly fairly old and well-used) A1200 is
starting to fail.  Oddly enough, it's my escape key. It's weird, it
doesn't work at all no matter how hard you hit it but then if you keep
hammering it for a while it suddenly starts again.

Any suggestions as to what I could do to extend it's life a bit more?  I
tried taking the keycap off and blowing hard into it as this seems to be a
very good method of cleaning switches (it magically makes mouse buttons
with tactile buttons and joystick microswitches work fine again for months
after stopping working) but it doesn't seem to have helped.

I'm not worried at the moment, I can live, but if my keyboard did start
failing in a big way, is it fairly easy to find people selling off
keyboards or can they be bought as a spare?  One of my cursor keys went
slightly dodgy a while ago but after a lot of hammering and cleaning (by
blowing) it's been pretty much OK for a good while now, but this
altogether does suggest that perhaps the keys are starting to reach the
end of their working lives (not surprising when this computer has been
used very heavily for the past 5-6 years)

Cheers.

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