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Offline bigman7

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Help in fixing broken Model M
« on: Wed, 22 August 2018, 05:14:50 »
So I decided to order a 93 Model M from ebay that was advertised as working and in good condition. I got the keyboard yesterday only to find out the guy I bought it from sent me a broken keyboard. I contacted him and he immediately sent me my money back and didn't want the keyboard returned. So I got a broken Model M for free.

Main issue with it is the space bar has a loose spring, the spring isn't actually attached to the little peg on the hammer mechanism. Even if I place the spring on the peg, it doesn't buckle. Both the space bar switch and the right alt key have this issue (the right alt key barrel doesn't even have a spring included). No matter how I insert the spring into the barrel it won't buckle.

Picture of the issue: https://imgur.com/a/IOwLdrn

Any ideas how to fix it? Should I stick the spring down on the peg with glue?

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Re: Help in fixing broken Model M
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 22 August 2018, 07:16:02 »
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Offline bigman7

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Re: Help in fixing broken Model M
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 22 August 2018, 08:53:43 »
Will try that, thanks

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Re: Help in fixing broken Model M
« Reply #3 on: Wed, 22 August 2018, 09:19:21 »
Hell yes it worked, got me a free model M