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| MS Natural Ergo Keyboard 4000 Sticky/Stiff Spacebar Fix white MS Natural Keyboard Elite. I was very disappointed to find that the space bar was stiff or sticky. So I searched the web for all the possible solutions. Here's what I found and tried: 1. lubricate plastic posts on underside of key (didn't work) 2. twist metal sway bar away from each other slightly (acceptable) 3. remove metal sway bar completely (acceptable) I took pictures of the procedures. Here's the gallery - http://www.paulstravelpictures.com/M...-Spacebar-Fix/ Hopefully this will help some of you that have this keyboard. Cheers, Paul Michaels Ft. Lauderdale, FL |
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| My solution
I had the same problem with the space bar, but I finally solved it once and for all. In the picture "Keyboard Under Space Bar" in your link you will notice that there are two tiny triangle shaped plastic protuberances in the black area below the zxcvb and nm keys (marked with an asterisk in the lousy ASCII diagram below, ignore the dots). Z X C V B ··············· N ···· M ---------- ············· ----------- | O · O · / ·············· \ ·· O········ ______ / * ············ * \________ In my keyboard one of them (the right one) was broken. I couldn't add the missing one, so I tried (please notice that this is what I did, I am not responsible of the results if you try this and something goes wrong. Try this at your own risk.) removing the other one with a nail clipper. I also strategically placed a folded Post-it note under the left part of the space bar to solve the other problem I had with the space bar: it was too noisy. Now it works just fine. Last edited by Thannhauser : 02-10-2008 at 09:18 AM. Reason: Misplaced Ascii art |
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