deskthority

Despite that in direct communication with Unicomp I was told that they don't sell the barrel plates - or frames as they refer to them, I had ordered a frame. It is the new style - which is incorrect. I looked at my invoice and it seems that's what I had ordered.
I have now ordered the 101 key - I ...

The flippers can move freely as far as I can tell. The barrels don't have epoxy on the inside from what I've seen. It seems that where the movement is limited - is occurring from epoxy on the outside of the barrels.
I've had some success scraping epoxy of the outside of the barrels - the keys can ...

A while back I knocked on my IBM Model M, 1993 a little too hard and knocked loose a buckling switch. I took a look and saw the keyboard needed a good cleaning. Also, a lot of the rivets fell out.
I decided to fix the cracked barrel plate while I was sprucing things up.
I didn't fully appreciate ...