send help before my dad finds out i broke his laptop's keyboard

[K3nobi]

guys help i got to bored so i tried to take off the keycaps on my dad's laptop and I can't put it back the way it supposed to

 

edit: this is a detachable keyboard, asus transformer book t100chi

[K3nobi]

4 minutes ago, NZgamer said:

you'll just have to tell him I guess.

oh no

[WereCatf]

10 minutes ago, General K3nobi said:

help i got to bored

May I suggest you find better ways of dealing with your boredom than breaking stuff?

[K3nobi]

Just now, WereCatf said:

May I suggest you find better ways of dealing with your boredom than breaking stuff?

i was doing my assignment until it got to the point where i need to take a  "break" and so i did this

[WereCatf]

5 minutes ago, General K3nobi said:

oh no

If your dad can't get the keycap back in place either, a new keyboard seems to cost around 80€ from ASUS's website, so it's not terribly expensive.

[Jinu]

Nothing a little superglue cant fix. put superglue in the centre of the key cap and carefully adjust it so that it is in the centre. Its not a long term solution, but it will buy you some time. Remember one thing. use very very little super glue (preferably the gel kind)

[K3nobi]

5 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

If your dad can't get the keycap back in place either, a new keyboard seems to cost around 80€ from ASUS's website, so it's not terribly expensive.

Here's the problem, yes 80€ that seems that much but when it is converted to my country's currency, it's 385 "bucks", so yeah

[Origami Cactus]

Look at the mechanism closely? Did you break the little hands that are supposed to hold the key in place? If you did then rip, otherwise try to carefully realign the mechanism and lock it again.

But yeah if you pull the key, the butterfly mechanism breaks easily, i have done it myself. Atleast with thinkpads you can buy a single replacement switch instead of the whole keyboard.

[P3rfectLIVE]

7 minutes ago, Jinu said:

Nothing a little superglue cant fix. put superglue in the centre of the key cap and carefully adjust it so that it is in the centre. Its not a long term solution, but it will buy you some time. Remember one thing. use very very little super glue (preferably the gel kind)

I mean i'm not condoning deceitful or wrong behavior, but if you were going to do something, this would be it
The superglue may fix it anyway, but be sure that the cap it lined up and you aren't pressing the button down more than once to set it. 

I'd still tell your father, but the fact that you're posting on here sounds like he wont be ecstatic that you broke his keyboard. 

[K3nobi]

11 minutes ago, Jinu said:

Nothing a little superglue cant fix. put superglue in the centre of the key cap and carefully adjust it so that it is in the centre. Its not a long term solution, but it will buy you some time. Remember one thing. use very very little super glue (preferably the gel kind)

um, i tried to find a superglue in my house and came back with non, so i tried using the type of glue you would bring to school for like sticking two pieces of paper together and waiting for it to dry

[K3nobi]

2 minutes ago, P3rfectLIVE said:

he wont be ecstatic that you broke his keyboard. 

ho yea he's the type of father who isn't that cheerful

[K3nobi]

2 minutes ago, General K3nobi said:

um, i tried to find a superglue in my house and came back with non, so i tried using the type of glue you would bring to school for like sticking two pieces of paper together and waiting for it to dry

the glue model number is ge3303

[K3nobi]

3 minutes ago, AndrzejL said:

Pack yer stuff and run somewhere abroad with no extradition... 

 

Regards.

 

Andrzej

it's raining.... heavy raining...

[Mazdaspeeding]

18 hours ago, General K3nobi said:

um, i tried to find a superglue in my house and came back with non, so i tried using the type of glue you would bring to school for like sticking two pieces of paper together and waiting for it to dry

Damnit, that was bad advice that dude gave you.  Now it *is* ruined.  You needed a pair of needle nose tweezers to squeeze the scissor arms or butterfly arms back into the key cap.

 

Sorry bro.  I wish I saw this sooner.  

[Mazdaspeeding]

19 hours ago, Jinu said:

Nothing a little superglue cant fix. put superglue in the centre of the key cap and carefully adjust it so that it is in the centre. Its not a long term solution, but it will buy you some time. Remember one thing. use very very little super glue (preferably the gel kind)

Congratulations, you just told this kid how to ruin his keyboard completely. This is just below telling someone to microwave their iphone to fix the battery.  Don't tell people how to "fix" things if it's not the proper way.  

 

 

Scissor/butterfly keys need tweezers to repair if the clips haven't snapped off.  If the clips have snapped off you need to order a new keycaps.  Glue will just ruin the whole delicate mechanism.

 

Facepalm

[HumdrumPenguin]

On 6/7/2020 at 5:06 AM, General K3nobi said:

ho yea he's the type of father who isn't that cheerful

And yet, you f***ed up his stuff.