[ltp] T61 Keyboard

[John Jason Jordan]

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:43:02 -0600
Michael Milligan <milli@acmeps.com> dijo:

> 
> 
> John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:33:38 +0100
> > Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk> dijo:
> > 
> >> Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > 
> >>> Assuming none of the plastic has broken off (which it shouldn't have;
> >>> "use a little force" is how you take the keycaps off) it should be
> >>> simple.  Put the keycap back on and press it down firmly until you hear
> >>> a click.
> > 
> > That doesn't work. That is, the right side clicks in, but the left side
> > is loose. The keycap doesn't fall off if I hold the computer upside
> > down, but it is wobbly.
> > 
> >> Sometimes it helps to engage the back of the key (the edge nearest the 
> >> screen) before you do the front. Play with the mechanism a bit to see 
> >> how it works.
> 
> Not for the F keys on a T61 keyboard.
> 
> It needs to be "hooked" on the right side and then little clips in the
> keycap snap onto the left side bar of the white plastic "stand".  On the
> T61 keyboard, the F keycaps (the whole top row actually) come off by
> prying on the _left_ side first to pop off the clips and then you push
> the cap to the right to unhook the cap from the white plastic.  The
> normal-size keys are hooked on the bottom and clip on the top, thus to
> remove, you pry on the top, then side it down to unhook the bottom.
> Reverse to re-install.
> 
> I've learned that all the hard way myself.

Your keycaps are a different design from mine. The F keys on mine are
the reverse of yours. I hook on the left and snap on the right.

It amazes me that Lenovo used three different designs on the T61.