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Re: Safeskin

In article <Jul.21.08.50.41.1993.16975@trident.usacs.rutgers.edu> scraft@trident.usacs.rutgers.edu (Steve Craft) writes:
>
>By the way, does anyone repair GS keyboards?  My left ADB port died of that
>solder-cracking problem.  I tried to put some fresh solder on each "point",
>but it still doesn't work.

     You shouldn't need to add any more solder -- just touch the tip of a
hot soldering iron to the "points" and re-melt the existing solder back
in good.  Be careful though, I have a 15W iron, and scorched the surrounding
varnish a bit.

     More recently I had another disturbing incident with my ADB keyboard:
The traces on the circuit where the RETURN key attached literally pulled
away from board and broke free (I guess I pound down too hard on my key-
board, sometimes).  The good news is I was able to fix it with some thin
braided wire and some patience threading it to the proper neighboring
keys.

-- 
Grover Thomas       grover@emunix.emich.edu   (Nifty quotes currently down)