You've been an angel on my shoulder while I've been cleaning my Amiga 500...both keyboard and floppy drive. Put it all back and it still works! Thank you so much.
such a thorough and nice tutorial! Today I was going to fix a keyboard from an A500 who shared a loft with some generations of squirrels who chewed away some of the keys, and this was exactly what I needed to see. Thanks so much!
Yes it is in a way. Although scrubbing the keys up gets a bit boring and takes far longer than you'd think. I've got a few more of these that need doing now, I think the novelty will have worn off by the end of the second one :-D
Excellent tutorial! I didn´t have the tool you use to take the key cap out, so I improvised and took two clips and bent them to form the two extremes and grabbed them using a tweezer to force the key cap out. It worked flawlessly. Thank you!
You are more thorough than me, I stop after the keys are off. And I use my electric toothbrush on that horrible dirty black plastic board. I'de advice to swap brush after to brush your teeth, but each to his own taste. Thanks for a nice video. Great to see whats in the depths of the thing.
I'd think so but worth checking, I'm not sure if there are different types of A1200 keyboard. On the A600 there are different types of key caps and plungers.
The Enter key on my A500 keyboard has two of those wires underneath - at right angles to eachother. A real pain to reassemble. If you have the same, replace this key first.
Something very relaxing about watching old tech getting cleaned.
You've been an angel on my shoulder while I've been cleaning my Amiga 500...both keyboard and floppy drive.
Put it all back and it still works!
Thank you so much.
such a thorough and nice tutorial! Today I was going to fix a keyboard from an A500 who shared a loft with some generations of squirrels who chewed away some of the keys, and this was exactly what I needed to see. Thanks so much!
Well, that was therapeutic!
Yes it is in a way. Although scrubbing the keys up gets a bit boring and takes far longer than you'd think.
I've got a few more of these that need doing now, I think the novelty will have worn off by the end of the second one :-D
Great... I need to repair one of the keys, your video gave me some hope I can pull it off with some 3D printing adapted to what's left of the switch
Excellent tutorial! I didn´t have the tool you use to take the key cap out, so I improvised and took two clips and bent them to form the two extremes and grabbed them using a tweezer to force the key cap out. It worked flawlessly. Thank you!
You are more thorough than me, I stop after the keys are off. And I use my electric toothbrush on that horrible dirty black plastic board. I'de advice to swap brush after to brush your teeth, but each to his own taste.
Thanks for a nice video. Great to see whats in the depths of the thing.
Thank you for an excellent tutorial.
I'm assuming the same process would apply for the A1200 keyboard
I'd think so but worth checking, I'm not sure if there are different types of A1200 keyboard. On the A600 there are different types of key caps and plungers.
Nice tip. I ersatz'ed that tool with some wood handle and 2 electrical domestic wires.
Yes. I can see that would work :-)
Ha ha! I posted something similar (using two paper clips) without having read the comments. It works great!
The Enter key on my A500 keyboard has two of those wires underneath - at right angles to eachother. A real pain to reassemble. If you have the same, replace this key first.
Thank you!
Mines same discoloured
I think most of them are! But at least they are clean now :-)