[rescue] What would you pay for a Type 5 keyboard?

[Dave McGuire]

On 6/4/21 3:28 PM, Earl Baugh wrote:
> (BTW, my
> type 4's haven't had any problems yet... Dave, what have you seen go wrong,
> very curious..).

  The glue that holds the metallized plastic disk to the foam pad
degrades, and the disk falls off.  The foam pads also degrade and turns
to dust.  Either may happen first.  The symptom for the former is keys
that just don't work, and the symptom for the latter is "flat" keys that
don't pop back up after being pressed.

  As I mentioned in a previous message, they can be rebuilt, but it's
very tedious and time-consuming.

           -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA