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Re: Poly6 Keyboard Repair.

2007-11-24 by mrjdevries

I did clean the contacts, but it was the actual rubber pads which 
were no longer conducting..

this kit is supposed to repair the actual rubber contacts etc..


>
> I listen to someone who told me,just a pencil eraser will do.I 
tried it and it did work.superglue ?,i dont think there is a need for 
that.They might be fixable.
> 
> mrjdevries <mrjdevries@...> wrote:                               A 
little while ago, I bought a keypad repair kit supposedly for a poly6 
>  or emulator II (off ebay) as about 6 keys on my P6 were a bit 
>  intermittent.
>  
>  I used this kit according to instructions, and it pretty much made 
the 
>  unreliable keys totally unreliable..
>  
>  [ clean the pads, apply a primer to the pads, apply superglue to 
the 
>  pads, apply conductive solution to the pads. ]
>  
>  Whats even more tragic, is that i did most of the keys, so now i 
have a 
>  poly6 with about 20 keys not working that great.
>  
>  Anybody had any luck with these kits? If so, please enlighten 
>  me, 'cause im rather p%$#ed off.
>  
>  ...vent ... vent...
>  
>  Mike
>  
>  
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