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carl mciver wrote:
"B.B." u wrote in message
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| How about using a piece of internally threaded tubing the entire
| required length, then sink a hole into the material large enough to
| accept the tube and 3/4" deep, and weld the tube in place? Might be
| easier to make and guarANTEES GOOD THREADS. SORRY, I HIT MY CAPS LOCK
| KEY AND THE FRIGGIN' THING IS STUCK NOW. DAMNIT!

My left pinky finger is crooked from a stupid ER doctor who never
learned about tying fingers together to get them to heal straight, so I'm
hitting the caps lock all the time either in place of or at the same time I
type the nearest letter. That damn "a" does it every time, and it would
really suck if the key was a sticky one!

Hmm ... perhaps you want a unix programmer's keyboard. (I've
seen some PC keyboards, made by NorthGate, which have a switch to change
the behavior to this mode). What these keyboards have which would be
helpful to you is that the caps-lock key is down where Control is on a
PC keyboard, and the control key is directly to the left of 'A'. (Now,
you'll have to experiment with your editor to see what a "Control-A"
does. In mine, it moves the cursor to the beginning of the line.) Some
possible behaviors might be worse than your current problem.

Another possibility is to pop the keycap off the CAPS-LOCK key,
and find a spring just large enough to surround the post and switch
under the keycap, so it takes more force than usual to use the
CAPS-LOCK. (I don't use it at all, so if you are similar, you could go
inside the keyboard and cut a trace leading to the switch -- but be sure
that you can jumper over the cut just in case, as this might cause a
group of keys downstream of that one to no longer respond.

Or -- you could turn a sleeve to surround the switch and keep the
key from ever depressing. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.

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