Help: a4k keyboard repair

[elendil]

Hi....

My a4k keyboard has a broken switch and it's the spacebar...if you hold it down (pressing hard) for a while, eventually you'll get your space, but other than that it doesn't work...

Can I repair this? Either with some sort of alcohol or perhaps by switching it with another, less used, one? I've tried, but it doesn't seem to be meant to be exchanged.

All help appreciated, space is an important key.

Sincerely,

-Kenneth Straarup.

[elendil]

I actually managed to completely disassemble it, switch two switches (resulting in my scroll lock being dodgy now) and assemble it again with the print in the right place, though it took a while

So no worries, I'm able to type spaces now and everything's great

Sincerely,

-Kenneth Straarup.

[stefcep]

I had a similar problem.  I opened the case and found the contacts on the circuit board that the rubber feet of the key touch when you press the key down.  I took a strip of wrapping foil about 1.5 cm by 0.5 cm and stuck it with sticky tape over the top of the circuit board contacts being careful to leave the foil abit raise over the contacts themselves, so that when you press the key down it pushes the foil onto the contacts.  failing this (as it did for me eventually because the foil gets pushed to the contacts with use) I eventually got an old A500 and used the keyboard from it, which fits perfectly in the A4000 keyboard case.

[Cass]

Hmm, a well known problem with these old KBs... Don't worry it's easy to repair with a little patience ;-)
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[NicoPPC]

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