Re: IIc sticky keys

[dastar@crl.com (Sam Ismail)]

Tom Kelly (tomk@pro-nsdapple.cts.com) wrote:
: Unknown User writes:
: >Someone from the Navajo reservation has delivered to me a IIC with ALPS 
: >keyboard.   About half the keys are sticky.  (This is the late-model 
: >keyboard with metal black-painted plate ----- NOT the el-cheapo IIc 
: >keyboard from Atlanta photocircuits with plastic brace.)
: >
: >I once ruined an ALPS  Apple Keyboard II with WD-40 sprayed into the keys.
: >
: >What material should I use to clean the sticky keys on this ALPS IIc 
: >keyboard?
: >

I would recommend taking off all the keycaps and removing the silly spring
that is under each key.  This "spring" is usually responsible for making
the keys feel like shit after a while.  Also, cleaning the dirt would
help too.  I did this to a //c of mine and the keyboard worked better
than a new //c keyboard.  Of course, this is on the older model //c, and
not on the platinum //c or //c+ which have great keyboards.

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Sam
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