I've taken apart two laptop keyboards in an effort to clean them. Both times I ended up buying a replacement keyboard. Once you've got a laptop keyboard pried apart the traces, especially the ones where the rubber key bumps go, are exposed and extremely fragile. I only took mine apart because the keyboards were already non-functional anyway. Got replacements at Computer Recycling (Kitchener) for about $5.00 each. You may want to try HacklabTO or FreeGeek Toronto for lovingly used parts... --Bob. On 2019-01-10 2:14 p.m., Tim Tisdall via talk wrote:
I removed the battery again and took a closer look at the keyboard. It's definitely melted plastic rivets holding it to a plastic framing that everything else screws into. I really don't want to start cutting into plastic. (here's a video of someone cutting and glue-gunning in a replacement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUnwW1mQ6aI) It seems like a few places sell the casing with the keyboard (https://www.ebay.com/itm/US-keyboard-for-Asus-ZenBook-UX305CA-UX305FA-Dark-G...) so I'll look around and see who best to order that from. There's so many models and sub-models that I need to be very careful with which one I order.
I tried calling ASUS to see how much they'd charge for a repair and they want a whopping $540 to just replace the keyboard. --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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