[cctalk] Re: Conductive material in rubber dome

Well folks, it was a false alarm. My wife was looking at my open switches and told me to zoom in with my camera. It turned out that it wasn't the dome itself. The dome had left just enough residue on the switch contacts to prevent consistent usage. So I sprayed excess contact cleaner and a qtip and cleaned it vigorously. Voila, all three switches work perfectly. It took a better part of five hours to do all of them. I figure this would likely happen again. And I was concerned the self adhesive version would break off during use but, no. The material in the domes is self adhesive. The dome material was also cast to be quite flat. I didn't have to use any of the new bits since it's still in shipping from amazon. But, I have them in stock because there are a number of 100s I will be refurbishing for resale at some point. I'm glad the wife looked at it with her eagle eyes. I would've torn off the original stuff and it wouldn't have worked. I would have kicked myself. I also replaced the leaky battery on the mobo so she's ready for modifications! Looking forward for this project. Daniel sysop Air & Wave BBS finger calcmandan(a)bbs.erb.pw On November 26, 2025 5:04:11 AM PST, me--- via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote: