Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
If you are looking for one....
http://www.bobjohnson.com/_store/Display_Buy.asp?prodID=PANA-CF28-RB
Decent price, good vendor.
Rick H...
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i guess i'm lucky, i have used CF27 rubber kbds in 800/1000 28s all the time. But now that I know there's a difference i'm sure i'll have problems
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Okay... Here's what you do to keep them from pulling out. (I thought I posted this somewhere...) Anyway... You CAREFULLY slide in the first ribbon cable and close the brown lever to lock it in place. Then you take a piece of clear packing tape about 1.5 inches long and lay it over the connector, cable, lever and onto the mobo. Press it firmly in place! This locks the ribbon cable in place. Then you can use a piece of double sided tape and put a small piece under the spot where the next one will lay after you insert the cable. (Get it?) You then push that into place, push in the cable lock and then press the cable down onto the tape to lock that one in place. Then you can carefully push the cover into place. When it comes time to put in the final two screws to lock down the plate... Lean the keyboard toward the LCD a little to give the cable just a little slack and then screw in the last two screws closest to the cable. This can be tricky as you are screwing at an angle!
Then lay the keyboard in place and bootup, open a notepad document and test ALL the keystrokes and combinations PRIOR to reinstalling the rest of the hardware. It's been my experience that if you can type one complete row; qwertyuiop[]\ and then turn on ALL CAPS and do the same thing... That all the connections are good and you can then button the rest of it up.
I just received my 4 keyboards from the link above. Three of them were in great shape... New looking as a matter of fact. The 3rd one looked like it came out of a warzone. There were white parts worn through and it looked terrible. I don't use keyboards like that... I throw them away. I have emailed them to ask about returning it for another. I'll keep you posted.
On a side note... The seller was good enough to call me and leave a message warning me about the fragile nature of the brown lever and if it breaks I would need a new motherboard. I thought that was pretty cool. I called her up (Marissa I think) and talked with her for a little bit. She said they have about 50 of these keyboards. She told me that I would be VERY impressed with the keyboards I would be getting. (I was with 3 of them) But that they usually sell the beat up ones at a reduced price to others usually in batch form. Maybe the one that I received was a mistake... We'll see. -
Naaah... not really. There is conductive ribbon made for repairing traces blown off of a PCB, and it DOES WORK... if you can get the PCB clean enough for the trace to bond to. You still need to be able to solder the ends, though.
For the silver deposit type ribbon cables, they make a conductive resin for repairing the traces on car rear window defoggers; I've used this with some success. (And to unlock a few AMD Athlon processors
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Rubber Backlite keyboards 27/28
Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by Rickh, Mar 5, 2008.
