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Or maybe it's just the Demon of Breakage that's after us....

posted by [personal profile] cathyr19355 at 06:19pm on 15/10/2005 under , ,
Yesterday afternoon, one of the keys on Eric's laptop started sticking. So he popped the keycap off to blow the cat hair out. Unfortunately, as he did so, the interlocking plastic ring-like things that act as the spring for the key popped out, and one part of them hit the floor.

I succeeded in finding the spring thing, but neither Eric and I can get the rings back in place to make the key function properly again. Eric understands the mechanism, but his hands are too big. My hands are small enough, but I don't understand the mechanism. :-(

On the bright side, it's finally stopped raining here. Today was a bright, warm, sunny day. Which reminds me; it's long past the time of year when I have my annual bout with the Weed Demon....
Mood:: 'bummed' bummed
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posted by (anonymous) at 12:38am on 16/10/2005
I generally use my fingernails for this sort of thing. Fingernails come in handy.
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posted by [identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com at 03:37am on 16/10/2005
I don't need fingernails to manipulate the damn thing, and in any event Eric's nails are longer than mine. It hasn't helped.
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posted by [identity profile] jmaynard.livejournal.com at 01:46am on 16/10/2005
How broken is it? If you're going to have to replace the keyboard anyway, you might consider as a last resort popping off another key and trying to leave the bits intact so you can see how it goes together...
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posted by [identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com at 03:38am on 16/10/2005
The machine is not at all broken, and this is the first keycap with that problem. Besides, we have the keyboard from Eric's old Thinkpad, and we did pop a key so that I could look at the mechanism. That hasn't helped either.
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