jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Julius Cisek) (02/12/89)
I dropped a bottle (don't ask) on my poor Amiga 500 last night and the '/' key on the keypad popped off. I dare not open her, as she's still under warranty. I am pretty sure replacing this key is not covered under the warranty. What can I do? I feel so bad; she looks positively marred!
richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) (02/12/89)
In article <1556@leah.Albany.Edu> jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Julius Cisek) writes: > > >I dropped a bottle (don't ask) on my poor Amiga 500 last night and the >'/' key on the keypad popped off. I dare not open her, as she's still >under warranty. I am pretty sure replacing this key is not covered >under the warranty. What can I do? I feel so bad; she looks positively >marred! An errant (almost) 3 year old has messed with my (almost) 3 year old A1000 keyboard to the point where the DEL key keeps coming off. Take the key, ans apply a REAL SMALL dab of crazy glue to the underside of the key, ans stick it back on the keyboard, and she'll be right as rain, mate. -- ``I've re-written UNIX from, scratch. God told me to'' - Ed Carp decwrl!gryphon!richard killer!gryphon!richard elroy!gryphon!richard
jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Julius Cisek) (02/13/89)
I failed to mention that the post on which the key of my Amy 500 was
mounted is broken, so setting it back in won't really help.
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Maniac Albany, NY 12203 spcfan@ai.ai.mit.edurichard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) (02/13/89)
In article <1559@leah.Albany.Edu> jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Julius Cisek) writes: > > > >I failed to mention that the post on which the key of my Amy 500 was >mounted is broken, so setting it back in won't really help. So take a toothpick and glue the thing back on. Just be real careful. I've seen somebody glue a ``finger'' back on a NEC spinwriter thimble; it's amazing what little dab'll do. Of course the guy who did this is a real glue, errr, sorry *adhesives* weenie. He even gets ``adhesives age'' magazine. -- ``I've re-written UNIX from, scratch. God told me to'' - Ed Carp decwrl!gryphon!richard killer!gryphon!richard elroy!gryphon!richard
gmg@hcx.uucp (Greg M. Garner) (02/16/89)
In article <1559@leah.Albany.Edu> jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Julius Cisek) writes: > >I failed to mention that the post on which the key of my Amy 500 was >mounted is broken, so setting it back in won't really help. I fixed a broken tape player volume knob by drilling a tiny hole in the post, and then inserting a tiny round piece of metal into the resulting hole, gluing it in, and then gluing the knob on the part of the metal sticking out. The metal is tuff enough so that it will probably never break. The metal I used was from one of those tiny little screwdriver sets, I just took one of the smallest bits and used it. You could also use a toothpick instead of metal, as someone mentioned earlier. Hope this helps! Greg Garner 501-442-4847 gmg@hcx.uucp USENET: ...!uunet!harris.cis.ksu.edu!hcx!gmg