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On 21 Dec 2010, at 16:54, "Dilwyn Jones" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I was interested to see in Quanta the picture of the replacement
>> membrane with strip leads. This is just what I have done, but with a
>> standard membrane. Having found that the fault was in the leadout
>> strips, and jumpered breaks by drilling holes and fitting fine wires
>> with conductive paint, as more broke, I decided that the best way was
>> to cut them off and fit strip cables in a similar way, the strip cable
>> having the same pitch as the connectors on the main board. There
>> seemed no point in putting another of the same pattern in. I've done
>> several and they have been fine. I probably put a note about this in
>> Quanta at the time. I have also got a Rainbow keyboard which came
>> fitted to a QL; it just plugs into the connectors, and usefully sports
>> a numeric pad. I don't know what is inside as it is rivetted!
>>
>> BryanH
> Little tips and suggestions like this are always helpful. Why not jot it down
> and put it in Quanta or QL Today for a wider audience to read of the
> possibilities.
>
> My only slight concern would be when plugging the strip cables into the
> membrane sockets ont he keyboard. Would this potentially force them wider
> open so that if ever you went back a standard membrane (and thank goodness
> Rich is securing supplies of these vitasl spares with assistance from Quanta)
> they would fail to make proper connection with the by-now wider contacts?
>
> Years ago (in the 1980s) I had a QL with a replacement keyboard sat in place
> of the original keyboard (Schoen or one of those types,I forget which). When
> it became faulty and I tried to use the original keyboard and cover, the
> keyboard did seem intermittent, but I couldn't tell at the time if this was
> the membrane (which had been in the attic for a while) or the contacts which
> was the problem. That QL got kept for spares for years so I never did find
> out if it was my adventures with the wire connections which caused the
> problem or not.
>
> Dilwyn Jones
>
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Yes that is exactly what happens.
Tony
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