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IBM Model M Ruined!

So I decided it would be a great idea to give my Ibm Model M a quick clean, so I removed all the keys and blew away all the dust with compressed air and cotton buds then I steeped all the keys in hot soapy water.

All of this went to plan when I went to go dry them and assemble the keyboard back my sister burst into a fit of rage while she was in the other room and then came into the kitchen "The room I was in" and started shouting about god knows what then took the bowl my keys were in and threatened to throw them in a bucket of coal and I was like hell naw and grabbed it back and sat down and carried on cleaning the key caps when she picked it up again and threw it at me, her bad aim meant she completely missed me and hit the cup of tea beside me, knocking it over and spilling the water and the keycaps all over the floor.

 

I quickly lifted my keyboard and phone"S3" from the table and then cleaned the tea of them but I needed to work down in the farm in like two minutes so I then left the house and fed all the cows" Yes I am a farmer" and returned, she was lucky she cleaned up most of the mess but I still found about 10 more key caps after and assembled the keyboard when I realized that 2 keys were broken" Key pictured below" because I obviously can't type them and being a gamer/ heavy typist these keys are needed all the time so as you can imagine I was pretty pissed and my sister is clearly not very nice...

So I looked on ebay and no key caps for sale at the moment so my only choices is to live with it or buy another model M!

Note bottom picture is an old before picture.

Ps. Does anyone in the UK/Ireland have any spare model m key caps for num pad enter and also a generic keycap, I highly doubt it but if you do give me a shout! Thanks.

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ahh man i feel your pain. i have two sisters

 

sometimes i get told for walking around :/

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Hope I could help!

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This is punishable by death.

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I agree new law anyone who damages a Model M purposefully or by mistake shall be killed!!!

 

This is punishable by death.

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Lol maybe ill break my old phone over her face.... Nokia... That's how you know it's gonna hurt!!!

 

I think the phone would fair considerably better. Those old Nokia's are tanks!

 

 

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Thats unconstitutional. One must not commit treason against his/her country. This is treason to the world of classics. And I like classics. Send her to 1692. 

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I think the phone would fair considerably better. Those old Nokia's are tanks!

Yeah if I did it would probably break her nose or maybe even worse, my old nokia is like 3-4 times heavier than my S3 and it can take a fair bit of abuse but any water and it dies...instantly!

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This is punishable by death.

I agree new law anyone who damages a Model M purposefully or by mistake shall be killed!!!

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Aw thanks man for the help but doesn't ship to the Uk i'm afraid...Thanks anyway!

Ah damn sorry

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Can't you take out any F-keys and use that for the missing ones for a while before getting the replacements?

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Aw man, as a Model M owner myself, I feel your pain dude. But, there's still hope......the board is in good condition, it's just going to be a bitch (pardon my French :D ) finding the replacement caps. Still doable, just keep a lookout at eBay....best of luck to you. :)

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PMS is a bitch...

Also, silver slim ps2, aww yeah

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I think the phone would fair considerably better. Those old Nokia's are tanks!

So he will keep hitting her until it breaks!

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Don't fret bud! They sell keycaps for this :)

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So he will keep hitting her until it breaks!

... i think the nokia is going to win that battle 

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Can't you take out any F-keys and use that for the missing ones for a while before getting the replacements?

Yeah but it annoys me having any key gone in general, I can do the same for the enter key also it will be smaller though.

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This was so painful and sad to read :(. Least you're not a dumbass like me, when I wanted to "clean" my laptop and I just wanted to take the covers out and see if ther is any dust there but then I put the HDD back and the cover and booted my laptop and BAM got some stupid black screen saying "No Operating System Found" and as time passed it got even worse because now if I try to turn it on, well it just wont. Still a mystery to me. What did I do wrong when placing back the covers? It must have been something to do with the HDD as that was the only part I took out and then put back in. Whatver Im getting a new rig and my 1st gaming desktop :). F*ck laptops for gaming! Ain't worth sh*t!

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