Date   : Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:08:49 +0100
From   : mike@... (Mike Tomlinson)
Subject: master keyboard

In article <Pine.WNT.4.64.0810170208450.624@...>, Anders Carlsson
<anders.carlsson@...> writes

>A gentleman on this mailing list told me in a private email that one
>can buy a set of replacement keyswitches on eBay for a few pounds.
>They're called Acorn Electron. ;-)

ouch.  A dead Elk maybe, but to rip apart a working one for keyswitches
is sacrilege :)

> Shouldn't it be possible to pull
>them apart and clean those keyswitches,

If you mean taking the keyswitches themselves apart, no.

> or is it not a failsafe way
>to make them work again?

_sometimes_ a squirt of contact cleaner (e.g. rswww.com part number
132-491) in between the white plunger and black switch body, followed by
a good dew operations of the switch, works. Usually though, the switch
is plain worn out.

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