Re: IBM Model M keyboard and water

From: Michael Baldwin Bruce (mbbruce_at_mighty.co.za)
Date: 11/03/04 

Date: 3 Nov 2004 01:56:43 -0800

bruce aka tholen@antispam.ham wrote in message news:<keUhd.59754$Kl3.35571@twister.socal.rr.com>...
> Greg writes:
>
> > Model M is a buckling spring keyboard. It is nothing like 99% of the other
> > keyboards on the market.
>
> That's why I want to get it back into working condition if at all
> possible. They just don't make them like that anymore.

lol! Let's hope there's only one of you, bruce. they don't want to make
you like you anymore. Judging by your number of posts, you aren't in any
working condition either.

>
> > If you take it apart little bits of stuff will go everywhere.
>
> I heard about somebody who took his keyboard apart and watched lots of
> little parts go "sprong" all over the place.

you heard, bruce? from whom, bruce? barnes, bruce?

>
> > Pop all the keytops off and blow in the holes with a hair dryer
>
> The keytops aren't enough. The keytops cover another key-like piece of
> plastic, and those cover the springs. Removing the secondary key exposes
> the holes (and the springs, thus the danger of having little bits of
> stuff going everywhere). I'm told that when the water spill occurred,
> computer staff was called on to assist with my computer, and they used
> canned air to dry off the keyboard. Yeah, maybe the top. But there was
> a pool of water in the bottom of the case.

you shouldn't piss on your keyboard, bruce. its also unhygenic.

>
> > or <safer> just put it on the dashboard of your car for a day.
>
> We might be able to pull a vacuum on it.

pull a vacumm, bruce? I heard its not the only thing you pull, bruce.

>
> > If it isn't corroded up in there it will probably be fine.
>
> Whatever little exposed metal there is does not look corroded at all.
> Of course, there was a fair pit of hair and other debris that I was
> able to clean off the base.

what the *** have you being doing to your keyboard, bruce? Shagging it or
something?

>
> > When you put the spacebar back on be sure you get the wire bail under the
> > guides toward the back.
>
> Haven't tried to remove that piece of plastic yet.

why not, bruce?

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