Keyboard Repair

[nikoveliki]

this is the best video ever i have watched in my 19 years of life i declare this man to be president of earth and i am 100% sure he can cure cancer, end world hunger, start a life on mars and reverse world warming as well as ageing all within his first week of work

[gilbertcheng]

To anyone trying to fix a section of worn circuit that would easily be fixed with conductive paint, but find it too expensive or difficult to acquire, take an old usb device and take a short section of wire (since the wires are thin), and take only a few strands, maybe about 4-5. Run the wire and shape it to the affected section of the circuit (not really necessary) and make sure it is in contact with the working parts circumventing the affected part of the circuit. Tape it down with a thin piece of tape (cellotape, scotch tape, electrical tape, any of these should do, as long as it isn't conductive). You could use conductive tape, but it is as easy to find as conductive paint :P . Run a fingernail on the tape by each side of wire so that the wire is secured in place and also traces the defective part of the circuit.

Hope this helped you.

For lack of conductive tape or conductive ink/paint, I first tried a spudge of aluminium foil. That kept shifting because the affected section for me was between spacebar and right Alt and the comma key. I then tried a thin section of aluminium foil fixed with tape, which would also lose contact because it would shift. I tried pencil lead, which worked momentarily, but the affected section was too long and it would die again in under an hour. I guess pencil lead would work for small sections, maybe for under a couple of mm of missing circuit. I then tried wire, which would also shift. Finally, I realized all of these were shifting because they were bulky and even a large cross section of tape could not secure them in place. So, my solution of using a few strands of wire has worked well - the wire is in place, and it has been several months with no problems whatsoever. I used thin, long sections of cellotape to follow the shape of the wire with a different section of tape after each bend of the circuit.

[LaurenLillianHaggerty]

Thanks for this, managed to fix my partners keyboard, there was a piece of some sort of debris ontop of one of the connections and it was making his spacebar and left control key not work. With this video I fixed it in 15 minutes :D Definitely saved us some money as we were going to take it to a repair shop and would've had to have paid like £30+!

[gilbertcheng]

Thanks! This worked for me. ESC, F1–F6, G, H, '", part of the left SHIFT key, left CTRL, right ALT and the UP key on my Amazon Basics wired keyboard stopped working out of the blue. There was a bit of the circuit near the right ALT and Menu keys, about a whole half inch that had completely disappeared. All of the affected keys were on the same part of the circuit. I had to shape a piece of aluminium foil to fit the angled shape of the circuit there to avoid other parts of the circuit responsible for the v, n and m keys. It works. I haven't figured out how to provide enough pressure with both tape as well as a bulky fold to keep the connection going once I put it back together. I guess I'll have to look up that conductive glue someone else mentioned in the comments. But thanks for the insight.

Just in case anyone's curious, I did try using a pencil to draw in enough graphite on the missing bit, but that didn't work for me.

[lixinho]

That was actually efficient, thank you!

[AIFASHIONSTYLES]

The most beneficial video I saw on fixing keyboard on the whole YouTube Thanks from the bottom of my heart 😊

[invisibleanonymous]

With this solution that you suggested, my problem was solved. Thank you very much for sharing this experience 🙏🏻

[andrewboxall]

Keys ‘5’ and ‘6’ failed to work. I searched for answers and found this YouTube programme.

Stripped the keyboard down as per video, found 3 breaks in the circuit all parallel to each other. I cut three strips of tin foil about 2mm width because I did not want to short circuit them with their neighbour. A very fiddly job, I worked like a micro-surgeon!!!

The job was a success, I got back the use of ‘5’ and ‘6’. Saved £20 - £45 not getting a new keyboard.

It is a shame this media does not allow photo downloads so I could show you before, during and after. Many thanks to John Hamilton.

[medhatelzanaty]

اشكر حضرتك على الافاده فى هذا الموضوع ... شكرا ... مع تمنياتى بالتوفيق لسيادتكم .

[sabatrol]

10 year old video 100 years of knowledge. Amazing video

[jidsart]

Big help! Thanks! I just repaired my keyboard.

[ramza]

you are a God sen THANK YOU!!! My MERC Stealth keyboard took a full cup of coffee and I broke a line taking her apart.

[salmanjan]

watching in 2021, and it still works, thank u so much!
typing with the same keyboard, just fixed now!

[miandanial]

Yey, it works for me. Thanks a lot. love from pakistan

[TheNormanbro]

I had a two keyboard with same problem and i will try this on both of them. Thank you.

[lastgamewithAKxZs]

it helped ...thnx a lot..
my C button wasnt working...but
THanx

[TheMrMUSER]

Thank you very much sir, its still working till this date

[ahmazumder]

Which compound is used to made matrix (printed on transparent plastic)

[mdshahid]

This video is so good for me... Thank you much

[walterl]

Today i Will try it, thanks from Argentina my tech friend