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10 minutes ago, mdmme said:

Hey so I got a model m off ebay and I completely took it apart to clean it. This includes taking apart the black plastic rivets on the back of the metal plate. When I put it back together most of the keys stopped working and have very little click and feel awful. Does anyone know how I can fix this or if I should just give up and buy another one?

Oh, I know exactly what youre talking about. You're gonna need to do a nut and bolt mod. The mod with hopefully make the board work again and feel a lot better, I did this to my blue badge m and it feels a lot more crisp after it. 

 https://wiki.geekhack.org/index.php?title=Modifications:IBM_Model_M:Nut_and_Bolt_Mod

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Hey so I got a model m off ebay and I completely took it apart to clean it. This includes taking apart the black plastic rivets on the back of the metal plate. When I put it back together most of the keys stopped working and have very little click and feel awful. Does anyone know how I can fix this or if I should just give up and buy another one?

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Did you check by opening it again and seeing if you damaged anything or perhaps didn't reattach something all the way?

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10 minutes ago, mdmme said:

Hey so I got a model m off ebay and I completely took it apart to clean it. This includes taking apart the black plastic rivets on the back of the metal plate. When I put it back together most of the keys stopped working and have very little click and feel awful. Does anyone know how I can fix this or if I should just give up and buy another one?

Oh, I know exactly what youre talking about. You're gonna need to do a nut and bolt mod. The mod with hopefully make the board work again and feel a lot better, I did this to my blue badge m and it feels a lot more crisp after it. 

 https://wiki.geekhack.org/index.php?title=Modifications:IBM_Model_M:Nut_and_Bolt_Mod

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12 minutes ago, mdmme said:

Hey so I got a model m off ebay and I completely took it apart to clean it. This includes taking apart the black plastic rivets on the back of the metal plate. When I put it back together most of the keys stopped working and have very little click and feel awful. Does anyone know how I can fix this or if I should just give up and buy another one?

Also what m did you get? The rainbow backplate space saver and industrial ones are real nice. 

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