Re: II+ problem

[Bill Shuff <bill2060@cris.com>]

JB wrote:
> 
> I have a problem with my II+
> 
> I just got it back up and running.  Everything seems to work OK except
> some screen flickers and garbled text.  Is this garbled text lowercase
> letters?  If so what do I need to display lowercase?  Also, I noticed
> the letters A,C,B,T do not work.  (makes it hard to catalog a disk.)
> Anybody have any ideas why these things are happening?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> And thanks for all the responses to my Lemonade question.
> 
> JB
> --
> HM3 (FMF) J.B. Cole, USNR-R
> Naval Reservist and Apple IIgs user
> http://pw2.netcom.com/~jbcole/jb.html
> "The only easy day was yesterday"

There are two or three cures for a keyboard that has letters that don't
work.  First, with one finger pound on the key a bit harder than seems
reasonable about 20 to 30 times.  Often, that action will clean dirt off
the contacts and the key will be restored.  Second, the key can be
removed from the keyboard and cleaned or replaced.  Third, the keyboard
can be replaced.  I can help with the last two options, but you will
have to do the pounding yourself.  Still another option is to try to
squirt some TV tuner cleaner into the key alongside the stem and work it
up and down for a while.  This is difficult to do now as the freon-based
cleaners are no longer sold.  I have heard that the non-freon products
now available will harm some plastics so I cannot recommend using one of
them.  

Bill Shuff