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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Shyfe on Thu, 15 October 2009, 02:49:32

Title: One of the screws on my keyboard actually goes through the ribbon connector thing
Post by: Shyfe on Thu, 15 October 2009, 02:49:32

seemed odd to me. anyone encounter this before? is it supposed to be like this?

Title: One of the screws on my keyboard actually goes through the ribbon connector thing
Post by: ch_123 on Thu, 15 October 2009, 02:55:42

Which keyboard are you talking about?

Title: One of the screws on my keyboard actually goes through the ribbon connector thing
Post by: Shyfe on Thu, 15 October 2009, 03:16:06

model m, sorry

Title: One of the screws on my keyboard actually goes through the ribbon connector thing
Post by: JBert on Thu, 15 October 2009, 06:24:39

Pictures would be nice...

Title: One of the screws on my keyboard actually goes through the ribbon connector thing
Post by: ch_123 on Thu, 15 October 2009, 08:56:06

I think it's a case of "If it works, it works"

Title: One of the screws on my keyboard actually goes through the ribbon connector thing
Post by: Shyfe on Wed, 21 October 2009, 05:28:14

i'll take pictures later today if you guys want. I'm kind of curious how it works even though there's a screw stabbing through the cable. The response time seems to be fine and all the keys work, but it must be giving something up if there's a huge screw just stabbing through it right?

Title: One of the screws on my keyboard actually goes through the ribbon connector thing
Post by: FourOhFour on Wed, 21 October 2009, 06:59:25

If the screw entirely misses all of the traces on the ribbon cable it wouldn't cause any problems at all. If it hits one (and only one) trace, it'd still probably work fine... the screw is conductive too. I'd certainly expect problems if it were shorting two traces.

Title: One of the screws on my keyboard actually goes through the ribbon connector thing
Post by: timw4mail on Wed, 21 October 2009, 08:49:29

Quote from: ripster;127370

I think if you attach back the Model M speaker to the grille you might get AM radio reception.

lol

Title: One of the screws on my keyboard actually goes through the ribbon connector thing
Post by: Shyfe on Wed, 21 October 2009, 13:06:11

(http://i33.tinypic.com/rbz0a8.jpg)
I realized that it just goes to the LED indicators so it doesn't really matter.

Title: One of the screws on my keyboard actually goes through the ribbon connector thing
Post by: ironcoder on Wed, 21 October 2009, 13:43:57

use a plastic screw