On 11/3/06, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11/3/06, Bob La Quey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No kidding. > > This morning I got up and went into the kitchen for > my morning cuppa java and wake up email browse ... > > The keyboard on my laptop had four key caps missing. > WTF ??? Gone were the G, the comma, the PgUp and > the Enter key. This on my laptop that is about 2 months > old ... > > I found the keycaps scattered about the G and the comma > looking very badly battered. My only guess is that that my > damned cat, a great mouser BTW, had some fun last night. > > So any ideas? Are there key cap replacement kits or??? > Anyone know a good repair place? My pretty little black > laptop now looks like a snaggle tooth hillbilly. I am such > a lousy typist that I don't even mind hitting the chicklets > directly but the look is sure not very professional :( >What variety of laptop is it? On many, it is a fairly trivial exercise to replace the whole keyboard. Unfortunately, eBay does not have a separate category for laptop keyboards, so you have to wander mostly through "Desktop & Laptop Components" and "Desktop & Laptop Accessories". For future protection, you could get a keyboard condom, found by searching "keyboard skin'" in the main "Computers & Networking" category. Perhaps this would just be a new challenge to the cat. So did it type anything interesting? carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
I talked with a laptop repair guy who quote $80 for a keyboard and $65 to replace, which I suppose is a fair price for a commercial solution .... but I am a CB and it pained me to go that route. Hah! I knew I could fix it. I found a cheap chicklet keyboard I had around and stole a keycap and lever mechanism from it ... tada I was able to install them. I had to move both the key cap and the lever mechanism since the lever mechanism was different between the two keyboards. But fortunately the lever mechanism from the donor keyboard fit the metal substrate, which has some little tabs to hold the lever mechanism in place. Now I have one problem key left. The PgUp on the lap top is about 1/8th inch narrower than any key from the donor keyboard. I guess I will get out my Jeweler's saw and hack one of them down. The lever mechanism seems the same .... stay tuned. That should wipe the smile of that damn cat's face. Forward, BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
