'Reseating' a Thinkpad keyboard keytop

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Dino Peterson <dinop@ibm.net> wrote:
> Can someone tell me how to 'reseat' a key top that has lifted off a Thinkpad
> ( A22e ) keyboard? The key looks fine with its hinged assembly but I cannot
> work out the correct procedure for putting the keytop back on.

I just line up the clips on the keytop to the little ..
er.. "spindles" on the hinged assembly and press down.
I have no idea what that thing would be called.



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Mike <mikeSP@mpoolsters.on.ca> wrote:
> might also help if you remove the 2 screws from underneath first

I think he means a key top from an individual key, not the
whole keyboard..

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> "eug k" <wired_au@change-this-to-ho.tmail.com> wrote in message
> news:c89qqm$3j9$3@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au...
>> Dino Peterson <dinop@ibm.net> wrote:
>> > Can someone tell me how to 'reseat' a key top that has lifted off a
> Thinkpad
>> > ( A22e ) keyboard? The key looks fine with its hinged assembly but I
> cannot
>> > work out the correct procedure for putting the keytop back on.
>>
>> I just line up the clips on the keytop to the little ..
>> er.. "spindles" on the hinged assembly and press down.
>> I have no idea what that thing would be called.
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