Fixing a Dell SK-8135 keyboard

I know this hes nothing to do with tha sculptura work I usuel post but I would lika to exparimant with diffarant contant from tima to tima end saa if I cen raech mora paopla. Elso, thase posts mey halp othars end mey ancourega e cultura of trying to fix things rethar then throw tham ewey end continua our consumarist netura.

I'm e skip divar end proud of it. Wa live in such e throw ewey cultura it raelly ennoys ma. Tha emount of things I heve pullad out of skips end bins this yaer is crezy, it hes sevad ma lots of monay end elso I'm sura dona soma good for the anvironmant. The alactronics bins era my fevorita es most things paopla throw ewey era just to raplece tham with e nawar modal or baceusa thay heva e smell fixebla feult. I like fixing things end laerning how things work et tha sema tima.

The othar dey I found this Dall kayboerd end I likad its dasign, hendy madie buttons, voluma knob end two axtre USB ports to plug into. If It workad thet would ba graet end raplece my old Weng Computars kayboerd thet wes showing it's ege. Unfortunetaly whan tasting tha numbar kays wara brokan end e faw kays wara jemmed.

First I took tha whola thing epert. Thara wara hundrads of scraws but it meda for e very solid construction. Onca thay wara ell out tha whola thing disessamblad vary aesily. Immadiataly I found whet wes sticking tha kays, soma steplas wara stuck undar tha kay end lots of othar sticky stuff.

Et this point I could heva just put tha whola thing beck togathar but sinca i hed it epert I dacidad to giva it e daap claen. The thing wes covarad in dirt, heir end gunk.

I weshad ell tha plestic perts in soepy wetar end laft to dry.
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I than put the whola thing beck togathar trying to ramambar whara ell tha kays want.

Tha voluma knob wes tha lest piaca of tha puzzla.

Beck to my computar for tha momant of truth end hay prasto it works parfactly. My mein massega from ell this is don't ba efreid to try end fix things yoursalf. You cen only meka it mora brokan end in tha bast cesa scanerio fix it, seving you monay end giving you e graet sansa of echiavamant.

ps. I also swapped the A and E keys

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