usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) (03/17/89)
I know this went around before, but... How do you fix sticky keys on a A1000 keyboard?? I am just starting to have problems, but it will likely get worse. Thanks for any help. E-mail to save net.bandwidth In Real Life: Joe Porkka porkka@frith.egr.msu jap@syssun.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.1) Life is just a game, so relax and be happy.
richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) (03/17/89)
In article <2232@cps3xx.UUCP> porkka@frith.UUCP (Joseph A Porkka) writes: > >I know this went around before, but... >How do you fix sticky keys on a A1000 keyboard?? >I am just starting to have problems, but it will likely get worse. Stop using it to read alt.sex -- ``Quick Robin ! The Bat-Listings !'' richard@gryphon.COM decwrl!gryphon!richard gryphon!richard@elroy.jpl.NASA.GOV
840445m@aucs.UUCP (Mic Mac) (03/19/89)
In article <2232@cps3xx.UUCP>, usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes: > > I know this went around before, but... > How do you fix sticky keys on a A1000 keyboard?? > I am just starting to have problems, but it will likely get worse. When it went around before someone suggested to grease the keys with olive oil or something like that. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !! DONT'T TRY THIS OR YOU WILL ONLY MAKE THINGS WORSE !! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I did it and it fixed the keyboard for about 2 months. After this the keys were so gummed up that I had to purchase a new keyboard! I discovered that keys will stick for two different reasons: 1) If there is excessive friction bewtween the key shaft and the hole it sticks out of 2) The key cap (thing you press) is a bit too tight to allow free movement over the little ridge underneath. I discovered this after I greased my keyboard since the grease job fixed #1 but did not fix #2. I suspect that #2 can be fixed by whittling a little piece off the underneath ridge, although I have not tried it myself. I am not sure of how to fix #1 -- % Alan W. McKay % % % Acadia University % " The world needs more Socrates' % % Wolfville N.S. % walking the streets today " % % CANADA % - S. Corbett %
dca@kesmai.COM (David C. Albrecht) (03/24/89)
In article <2232@cps3xx.UUCP>, usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes: > > I know this went around before, but... > How do you fix sticky keys on a A1000 keyboard?? > I am just starting to have problems, but it will likely get worse. Yep, and I've answered it before. Proceed thou with haste to your neighborhood Radio Shack and peruseth the shelves for one 'Tuner cleaner'. It will have written also on the outside 'safe for plastics', 'cleans and lubricates'. Pry up said key which doth vexeth and annoy. Spritzeth thou some tuner cleaner into the key area (it has one of those red tubes which push into the sprayer head). Lo and verily either it will restore operation of said key or it is new keyboard time. David Albrecht
edwin@hcr.UUCP (Edwin Hoogerbeets) (03/28/89)
In article <2232@cps3xx.UUCP>, usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes: > I know this went around before, but... > How do you fix sticky keys on a A1000 keyboard?? The latest Transactor for the Amiga has an article by Don Curtis on how to clean your Amiga in general. Get a copy, and try it out. (Maybe even a subscription. It's worth it!) Edwin