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[featherxquill]

Flist, help!

My less than/comma key has fallen off the keyboard of my laptop completely. This is really not very fun. But, er, what can I do about it? As you can see, it still does work, but it's very annoying. Does anyone know if I can just glue it back on? Would that fuck it up completely? Apart from that - er, what else can I do (apart from writing shorter sentences and putting fewer italics in my LJ posts)? It looks like it was attached to the computer with a little rubber thing. I just don't want to do anything that will damage it permanently if fixing it is possible. Really, really don't wanna hafta get an external keyboard.

Any ideas?

Comments

[elysianmusings.livejournal.com]

Can't help you. My 's' key fell off today, I just have it setting on top of the button, not sure how to fix it. If you come up with anything, let me know.

[minerva-86.livejournal.com]

you should call the company that made the computer. they will probably tell you the most expensive way of having it fixed, but its only one key so it may not actually be that expensive.

[featherxquill.livejournal.com]

I think I shall do that, if I can't figure out a way of gluing it. Surely they'll be able to fix it (though my experience with laptop companies is often 'sorry, we can't do anything, you'll have to buy a new computer, oh woe').

Btw, omg your icon! That quote! :D

hee. 'Is there chocolate inside?' ;)

[minerva-86.livejournal.com]

oh my goodness??? you know!!!
youre the first person to get my icon - im so glad someone did!!!

[angrboda]

Oh, but I am experienced in this problem! My k fell off less than a month after I had bought this laptop, and yes, I could have taken it back to the shop but I had just finished transferring all my stuff from the old one and tweaked it exactly to my liking so I simply couldn't be bothered with the possibility of having to do that all over again. To begin with I could just click it back on when it fell off, and while it was a bit frustrating it wasn't something I couldn't live with. Of course it got worn after some seven or eight months of that treatment and fell off more often. Then I tried to glue it onto that little rubbery thing with just a little bit of glue (so as not to get it completely stuck) but that wasn't good enough. It still fell off. Now I just press the rubbery thingie and have gotten used to it, so it doesn't bother me too much anymore.

Why did your key fall off? If nothing's broken you might be able to just click it back in place. My k has a tiny little plastic tap broken off, so that's why it didn't hold when clicked back on.

If you do try the glue, you might want to be careful not to get it stuck and to clean the bits where you put the glue on so that it'll stick better. I considered using glue in the corners as well for when I clicked it back on, but I realised that if I did that I might get it stuck. I suspect the bits holding it in place in the corners are supposed to be able to move in order for it to be a button.

(I'm considering if I might be able to plunder the keyboard on the old laptop and replace the plastic thingie with the tap broken off though, but I haven't gotten around to that yet. It's the same brand of laptop (but not the same model) so in theory it might work)

[featherxquill.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if anything's broken - it's kind of hard to tell. I think there must be, though, since it won't click back in. Thanks for your advice! I was mainly worried that glue would bugger it up completely. What sort of glue did you use? Like a crafty kind of one, or super glue?

[angrboda]

I used a universal glue. Not a crafty one, as this one was both a smaller tube and has flammable icons on it. I'm not sure if it amounts to 'super' though.

Anyways, my failure with it might have something to do with me either not using enough, or not having let it dry enough. It's worth a shot.