OT: Repairing keyboards

Not true.

Put a saddle on 'em.

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He hasn't been told that???

Evidently not.

Do you eat a lot of KFC while watching TV?

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I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.

:D :D :D

My crude understanding is the U.S. radon standards are extrapolated from the lethal dose, with the approximate logic that a bullet traveling at velocity 'v' kills 100% of people, therefore a bullet traveling at

1ppm of 'v' will kill 1ppm of people.

And yet my experience, in more remotes than I can count, is that if you diligently wipe away every bit of that, then clean with alcohol, within a year or two the device quits again, and, on reopening, the film is back, and nearly as thick as the first time.

If the manufacturer's doing that, that's pretty decent field service.

Maybe they use giant mutant spiders.

Cheers, James Arthur

Or perhaps drones, who knows :D .

My experience with that sort of thing is nowhere near yours, so I thought you must be right after all and I did a search. And apparently you are right - here is what I found:

[The rubber does sweat some oil if it has not been baken out of it by the manufacturer; that saves them the drone & spider usage, I suppose :D ]

Dimiter

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On a sunny day (Fri, 27 Dec 2013 18:17:19 -0800 (PST)) it happened snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com wrote in :

The concensus now seems to be mutant spiders.

OK.

It is more likely than dinos, I watched 'Dinotopia', mainly because I got facinated by a dino playing table tennis with a human.

Amazing effects.

On a sunny day (Fri, 27 Dec 2013 19:23:39 -0800 (PST)) it happened dp wrote in :

So that is it, cheap remotes! ;-)

On a sunny day (Fri, 27 Dec 2013 15:48:36 -0800 (PST)) it happened whit3rd wrote in :

What is unreliable about a Hall sensor?

Yes, the boring reality. I think we should insist on drones carrying giant spiders to referee table tennis matches between dinos though :D .

Dimiter

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Giant mutant spider drones are the worst.

Nice link. And, it suggests a cure. That might well be worth doing--baking an insert the next time I have one out, to avoid having to repeat it.

I'm not big on servicing remotes--a waste of time--but it's a bigger waste of time to throw away the one thing you've finally found that's any good, only to trade it for another case of the same oily mess.

Thanks.

James Arthur

I've flushed out and disassembled a handful. I flush thoroughly, use a plastic bristle brush to get keytops between keys but complete disassembly and meticulous drying with a terry towel. Only do it on my own or as a big favor for somebody else. Not economically viable "on the clock". I've never seen the "silicone oil" mentioned here, but believe it.

Thanks for this, Jeff. Sorry I'm so slow to respond. It tells me a bit more than I wanted to know! :)

I've sat through a few feeble videos from YouTube on the topic, so I'll summarise: if anyone has a mechanical clock which they want to pass on to future generations, it's probably a good idea to put a dot of some kind of clock oil on the bearings every few years.

• Try "apeshit".