IBM Model M Keyboard

Tried a tad of "super glue"?

The idea is that they're free to move at the base so that the lever action works and presses the button when the spring buckles. If I glued them to the button caps, they would be sticking out underneath rather than resting in their proper position.

I need some way to pull them into the holes while I snap the two halves of the keyboard together, but all I can think of is a very big, very strong, magnet (and I don't have one).

You could try emailing the people at

Cheers, Gary B-)

Super super magnets are on hard drives for Window 386 or pre 386

No, mine still works ok.

Gravity?

Well that's what I've been trying to use, and finding that it's not strong enough to stop the springs jumping out of position as the two halves of the keyboard case are snapped back together.

However I just thought that it might help to put some blobs of blue-tack on the end of the springs to give them a bit of weight...

I gave that a try and either it worked or I've just found a better way of holding the keyboard while pressing the halves together. Picking Blu-Tack off 101 springs won't be a highlight of my life mind you.

All working now, except F3 where I bent the spring by putting the cap on incorrectly and (unlike the other times where I did that) can't manage to bend it back in such a way that it still buckles properly. It regsisters, but feels mushy. Still, it could have happened to worse keys.