Thank you, I didn't see that part of the troubleshooting. Best to gently wiggle the stem and stabilizer pole of the keycap 20 times and 10 times, respectively, as shown in the video there.
BROKEN SHIFT KEY MANUAL
Anyway, I think there is nothing to do for the time being but wait for the delivery of the new inserts and the spare right shift key.įor stabilized keys getting stuck or hard to press on the stabilized edge, check out the wiggle method described in the manual on the new Model F project web site. The edges of the screwdriver left some minor streaks inside the insert. Although I was so careful, I think I damaged the insert a little bit. Unfortunately, I tried to wiggle the insert with a screwdriver. Since my order has not been fulfilled and shipped yet, I'm going to revise my order. Thank you for your reply I didn't consider the black (vertical) ones. The joy stick maneuver would work best for a "yaw' problem. Remember there are roll, pitch, and yaw and your problem could be any of those. They are harder to find, for example the buckling spring typewriters have horizontals but no verticals.ĭepending on how far "off" the shaft is, I have successfully used something like a chopstick to move or rotate the insert the tiniest bit (a small fraction of a millimeter) to ease the binding. Sorry that it's late now, but if you are getting spare inserts it is good to nab a couple of the vertical ones, too. Or any kind of comment will be appreciated. I'm wondering if anybody had that kind of issue on Unicomp buckling spring keyboards? If the key is longer than ~2.25U then the wire stabilizer would be better instead of the plastic insert stabilizer I think. So, the length of the right shift key as 2.75U is too long to be stabilized with a kind of plastic insert stabilizer to be used. I suspect that this is the designing issue. Not responding at all is really irritating!Īnyway, as you can see in the videos, smaller keys such as backspace (2U), ANSI enter key (2.25U), etc don't have this issue. I prefer that they would say something, positive or negative!. This is irritating and tiresome behavior. There is no response from Unicomp any longer.Īlthough I write comments asking for any response several times on the ticket but no, nobody is answering the ticket anymore. Since the time I shared the videos, they've lapsed into silence. I recorded the videos at the beginning of this post and shared those videos with them more than 10 days ago. They told me that they need to be sure if the insert is missing or not. Then they requested that removing the key and taking pictures of the board side and the bottom side of the key. I reported that issue to the Unicomp support line. I made a quick search on the internet and I just realized that I'm not the only one who is having this issue:Īlso, I saw another one who is having that issue in the comments of the one ( - Typing Demo XL - IBM buckling springs (Unicomp Model M) (ASMR)) of the videos of Chyrosran22
Please see the following two videos of the issue I'm having I'm having an issue with the right shift key of my Unicomp Model M (Made in 2006) keyboard.
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