Refurbishing my favourite Apple device.

Probably not very interesting to many of you. Sorry about that. Been wanting to make a video on this for some time, though.

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[montaguebarnabasltd]

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[kappaklaus]

Practical, long lasting and easy to repair? Words that no one would use to describe Apple products today unfortunately

[whophd]

Lived through this era … it’s the biscuit collector model

[SamFigueroa]

I've modded 2 of these in the past with LEDs. I uses the 5 V from the USB port to power a LED on the left and the right poking out through the "motherboard housing" part. I just melted little holes in with a soldering iron to poke the heads of the LEDs through. Gives it a subtle underglow through the clear plastic.

[Naaman]

Whenever I'm putting a keyboard like that back together I normally add a dab of silicone grease there the springs click back in.
I've also found the best way to clean the keys is put them in a large protein powder shaker with warm water and a drop of detergent, find a bottle brush that fits in the hole and go to town with your best...erm... churning action. It's not perfect but will get you 90% of the way.

[timfireblade]

I loved mine until I accidentally managed to pour a cup of coffee into it. The coffee (with sugar in) then managed to eat through one of the membrane traces and wiped out half the cursor keys and the num pad. I may have been able to fix the traces with conductive paint that I had for shielding an electric guitar cavity, but didn't think of that at the time.

[lbs._onion]

What a shame.. they used to make beautiful AND practical products

[robotomo]

Such a beautiful keyboard! I absolutely adore the late 90s to early 2010s Apple design language. We have one of these keyboards in our house collecting dust. I would use it, however the keys seem to be a bit inconsistent with the amount of pressure being needed to push the key down (some are just way too hard) and when you press the edge of most keys, they either don't push down at all or require a ridiculous amount of force to do so.

[jeffrub]

This keyboard is actually my daily driver on my main PC. I also use one when working on customer's computers. I keep a wireless mouse dongle inserted so I just plug in 1 cable and have my keyboard and mouse ready to go.

[martindomsa]

That screw driver looks oddly familiar ;) Love the video! Makes me want to get that keyboard 😁.

[DrBovdin]

Using one of these daily. I was also surprised of how easily I could fully dismantle and clean it the first time I did so. I also once managed to pour half a glass of wine in it, but after a thorough clean, more or less full wet cleaning with a finishing round of IPA, it still works perfectly. I had to dismantle it even further and fully clean the membrane and contacts, but even that was fully doable, albeit time consuming and fiddly.
I have spent many years in various countries and the one thing I have always brought with me is a USB keyboard with my preferred layout. This model is one the ones that have traveled with me more than most keyboards not attached to a laptop 😉
(I used to have an old Sun keyboard that went missing, I liked that one as well.)

[capitalv]

You didn’t properly thread the USB cable through the three posts at 2:29, this will cause the cable to tug on the pcb and possibly break the board.

[transitengineer]

Thank you, for this step-by-step guide on cleaning your vintage "glossy white" wired Apple USB Keyboard. My first came with my "glossy white" 20-inch G5 iMac and, I feel right in love with this Keyboard. Currently, I have three working units: one is very junky looking used with my primary desktop a "space gray" trash can size Mac Pro, the second is fair looking used on my vintage 20-inch G5 iMac, and the third one that looks brand new which, I keep in its box. In addition, I also have this Keyboard's wireless Blue-tooth twin which, is always a lot of fun to use (smile...smile).

[yesterdaysjam]

I have two of these. Love the USB pass-through for my mouse lol.

[malk]

Nice one. I have a different Mac Pro keyboard from 2008. Still going strong and I don't expect it to break anytime soon.

[Squalius-cephalus]

Old membrane keyboards, such as the Lenovo Preferred Pro II, sometimes used lubricant in the stabilizers and keys. I once gave one lenovo keyboard a thorough cleaning, but it became unusable when all the old lubes went away :D

It's worth at least relubricating the stabilisers, dielectric grease works fine. But for anything else, thinner lube is must.

[FIRAGA]

We had similar keyboards when I was in high school in the graphics design room, we had both white ones like the one in the video as well as ones with black keys. I hated typing on them so much, keys randomly got stuck and didn’t register key pressed half the time.

[Hadcrash]

I've got two of these, and both of them have sort of binding keys, that, if you press them slightly off centre they get jammed. It's super annoying.. Not sure if mine are just worn out, or if they're all like that?

[Shteuf]

YouTube tech channels: “buy new stuff buy new stuff buy new stuff…”
YouTube hipsters: “buy new stuff that feels old”
This video: at least some common sense!

[zreolmeannin]

1:07 2:56, you didn’t route the cable properly on reassembly, if you yank it accidentally it might tear the wires inside