axolotl wrote:
jtaylor wrote:

Is there a conductive flexible rubber glue?




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Kevin Gallimore


Yup, that's the fix-it kit I remember. Used to have a general
electronics supply place in town that had it on the shelf. TV parts
places are an endangered species anymore, it'll probably have to come
by the big brown buggy now, HAZMAT stickers and all. A very temporary
fix can be implemented if you have some rubber roller conditioner, this
kind of dissolves the outer-most layer of the contact area on the
button and gets some fresh material exposed, the stuff I have will also
take off any markings on the other side, really nasty solvents in it.
Some of these keypads use a carbon-rich harder plastic contact embedded
in the rubber, these tend to wear the PC board contact area away after
hard use, in that case, you need some nickel print PC board paint to
fix it and it probably won't wear very well. Face it, most consumer
electronic equipment these days isn't meant to be fixed. If you get 6
months or a year out of it, you'll be lucky. Start saving your pennies
for a new one.

Stan