I have a computer keyboard with black keys, and white letters on them.
Several of the letters have worn off the keys. I'm wondering if there
is some sort of white permanent marker to use to put the numbers back,
or something else?

Yea, I know keyboards are not that costly, but it works fine, so why
replace it just because of a little paint.... Plus I like the feel of
this one.

On 12/15/2014 11:42 PM, wrote:
I have a computer keyboard with black keys, and white letters on them.
Several of the letters have worn off the keys. I'm wondering if there
is some sort of white permanent marker to use to put the numbers back,
or something else?

Yea, I know keyboards are not that costly, but it works fine, so why
replace it just because of a little paint.... Plus I like the feel of
this one.

Google keyboard label stickers, there are options. No idea on a good
brand though.


--
Froz...


The system will be down for 10 days for preventive maintenance.

On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 23:45:51 -0500, FrozenNorth
wrote:

On 12/15/2014 11:42 PM, wrote:
I have a computer keyboard with black keys, and white letters on them.
Several of the letters have worn off the keys. I'm wondering if there
is some sort of white permanent marker to use to put the numbers back,
or something else?

Yea, I know keyboards are not that costly, but it works fine, so why
replace it just because of a little paint.... Plus I like the feel of
this one.

Google keyboard label stickers, there are options. No idea on a good
brand though.


Alphabet & Numeric Label Starter Sets

wrote in message

I have a computer keyboard with black keys, and white letters on them.
Several of the letters have worn off the keys. I'm wondering if there
is some sort of white permanent marker to use to put the numbers back,
or something else?

Yea, I know keyboards are not that costly, but it works fine, so why
replace it just because of a little paint.... Plus I like the feel of
this one.

Paint, if you want to take the trouble...

1. Get a grade school type water color kit

2. Apply the white paint rather heavily. You don't have to stay within
the lines.

3. When the paint is dry, use a piece of damp muslin to wipe off the
excess paint. Do it gently so that the paint in the recesses stays there.

You can do the same thing with oil paint...harder to do, lasts better.
You can also do it with drying type drywall compound but it would tend to
fill up the recesses which means the white would get dirtier faster.


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____________________________

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On 2014-12-15 9:42 PM, wrote:
I have a computer keyboard with black keys, and white letters on them.
Several of the letters have worn off the keys. I'm wondering if there
is some sort of white permanent marker to use to put the numbers back,
or something else?

Yea, I know keyboards are not that costly, but it works fine, so why
replace it just because of a little paint.... Plus I like the feel of
this one.


http://www.4keyboard.com

Lots of choice there

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Dr. WTF

I have a computer keyboard with black keys, and white letters on them.
Several of the letters have worn off the keys. I'm wondering if there
is some sort of white permanent marker to use to put the numbers back,
or something else?

Yea, I know keyboards are not that costly, but it works fine, so why
replace it just because of a little paint.... Plus I like the feel of
this one.

Harbor Freight has white ink pens.

Auto wrecking yard guys use them to
mark "09 Buick" kind of thing on parts.

About two bucks. Bring your 20% coupon.
And be sure to get your free flash light.


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Learn about Jesus
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 05:48:02 -0700, Doctor WTF
wrote in

On 2014-12-15 9:42 PM, wrote:
I have a computer keyboard with black keys, and white letters on them.
Several of the letters have worn off the keys. I'm wondering if there
is some sort of white permanent marker to use to put the numbers back,
or something else?

Yea, I know keyboards are not that costly, but it works fine, so why
replace it just because of a little paint.... Plus I like the feel of
this one.


http://www.4keyboard.com

Lots of choice there

Nice site. Thanks.
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and having to visit 10 different news stands to pickup each one.
Email list-server groups and USENET are like having all of those
newspapers delivered to your door every morning.

On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 7:48:05 AM UTC-5, Doctor WTF wrote:
On 2014-12-15 9:42 PM, wrote:
I have a computer keyboard with black keys, and white letters on them.
Several of the letters have worn off the keys. I'm wondering if there
is some sort of white permanent marker to use to put the numbers back,
or something else?

Yea, I know keyboards are not that costly, but it works fine, so why
replace it just because of a little paint.... Plus I like the feel of
this one.


http://www.4keyboard.com

Lots of choice there

--
Dr. WTF

Only problem is that the stickers are $7 plus shipping. For the same
or just a bit more you can get a whole keyboard on Ebay. Plus you don't
have to stick them on.

Jerry,

Print using the appopriate symbols using a good font and size. Cut out and apply using several coats of clear nail polish. You'll now have a keyboard where the tops of a few keys are white with black lettering but It costs nothing to do this.

Dave M.

On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 10:47:03 AM UTC-5, David Martel wrote:
Jerry,

*

** Print using the appopriate symbols
using a good font and size. Cut out and apply using several coats of
clear nail polish. You'll now have a keyboard where the tops of a few keys are
white with black lettering but It costs nothing to do this.

*

Dave M.

I would think it wouldn't be hard to find the appropriate letters in
online images that were in reverse black/white, so that they would
have the right color when printed.

On Monday, December 15, 2014 11:42:59 PM UTC-5, wrote:
I have a computer keyboard with black keys, and white letters on them.
Several of the letters have worn off the keys.

If you wore off the letters, chances are you know where each key is and don't need to re-do them. No?

On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 06:33:52 -0500, "dadiOH"
wrote:

wrote in message

I have a computer keyboard with black keys, and white letters on them.
Several of the letters have worn off the keys. I'm wondering if there
is some sort of white permanent marker to use to put the numbers back,
or something else?

Yea, I know keyboards are not that costly, but it works fine, so why
replace it just because of a little paint.... Plus I like the feel of
this one.

Paint, if you want to take the trouble...

1. Get a grade school type water color kit

2. Apply the white paint rather heavily. You don't have to stay within
the lines.

3. When the paint is dry, use a piece of damp muslin to wipe off the
excess paint. Do it gently so that the paint in the recesses stays there.

You can do the same thing with oil paint...harder to do, lasts better.
You can also do it with drying type drywall compound but it would tend to
fill up the recesses which means the white would get dirtier faster.
In MOST cases the letters are nut recessed into the -lastic - they
are just screened on (or thermal printed) You could use Lettraset and
then put a coat of clear over them, but the cost of the lettraset
approaches the cost of the keyboard.

On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 10:47:21 -0500, "David Martel"
wrote:

Jerry,

Print using the appopriate symbols using a good font and size. Cut out and apply using several coats of clear nail polish. You'll now have a keyboard where the tops of a few keys are white with black lettering but It costs nothing to do this.

Dave M.
Just reverse print and you getr white letters on black backround.

wrote in
:

I have a computer keyboard with black keys, and white letters on them.
Several of the letters have worn off the keys. I'm wondering if there
is some sort of white permanent marker to use to put the numbers back,
or something else?

Yea, I know keyboards are not that costly, but it works fine, so why
replace it just because of a little paint.... Plus I like the feel of
this one.


They sell little keyboard stickers at a low price. Problem is, I can't
find then locally and the cost of shipping makes them too expensive for
me otherwise.

So I use little pieces of white paper with the number in ink, fastened
with a small piece of Scotch tape. They don't match the other keys and
wear away all too soon but are better than blank keys.


--
You know it's time to clean the refrigerator
when something closes the door from the inside.

Thomas writes:
On Monday, December 15, 2014 11:42:59 PM UTC-5, wrote:
I have a computer keyboard with black keys, and white letters on them.
Several of the letters have worn off the keys.

If you wore off the letters, chances are you know where each key is and don't need to re-do them. No?

Until your father visits and (tries to) use your blank keyboard (DAMHIKT).

Thomas wrote:

If you wore off the letters, chances are you know where each key is and
don't need to re-do them. No?

No. I'm not a touch typist by any means and most of the letters on this
keyboard are gone. With my 2 or 3 finger typing style once I get indexed I
can get by but finding the 'i' instead of 'o' or 'u' is iffy.

trader_4 wrote:

Only problem is that the stickers are $7 plus shipping. For the same
or just a bit more you can get a whole keyboard on Ebay. Plus you don't
have to stick them on.

Precisely. Even better, most of the PS2 keyboards at work have been replaced
by USB's. I scored a genuine IBM keyboard off an old AIX box. I just have to
replace the current mess. iirc, this Linux version doesn't do hot swaps so
I'll have to reboot.

On Monday, December 15, 2014 9:42:59 PM UTC-7, wrote:

I have a computer keyboard with black keys, and white letters on them.
Several of the letters have worn off the keys. I'm wondering if there
is some sort of white permanent marker to use to put the numbers back,
or something else?

The very best place for information about every aspect of computer
keyboards:

https://GeekHack.org

Regular labels placed on the fronts of the key caps will last a
long time.

Instructables.com has an article on restoring the factory look, but
it won't last long unless you coat the tops with something clear,
and even that will wear off:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Rest...Keyboard-Keys/

On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 22:23:59 -0700, rbowman wrote:

Thomas wrote:

If you wore off the letters, chances are you know where each key is and
don't need to re-do them. No?

No. I'm not a touch typist by any means and most of the letters on this
keyboard are gone. With my 2 or 3 finger typing style once I get indexed I
can get by but finding the 'i' instead of 'o' or 'u' is iffy.

Funny you mentioned the I and the O. Those two are worn off and are my
biggest ones to mix up. Yea, I do know where the keys are, but it's
earier to type when I can read the letters. I never learned to type the
traditional way, but I can type fast just using a few fingers on each
hand.

The letters are NOT recessed. They were just painted on. I will be
looking for some of the stick on ones, if they are not too costly. But
I'm not concerned about the font and all of that. I'd be happy to just
use a fine point magic marker, if they were made in white.

I've heard about "paint sticks". but never used them, or know how they
work. That was a consideration, but I'm not sure where they are sold.
Otherwise, I may just take some oil paint and a small artists brush and
do my best.

I was wondering about trying nail polish. I know they sell a metallic
silver, and a brush is included. But I dont use nail polish (I dont
have breasts)
So I dont know much about it, except that it seems to be durable, and
needs acetone to remove.

wrote in message
news
On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 22:23:59 -0700, rbowman wrote:

I was wondering about trying nail polish. I know they sell a metallic
silver, and a brush is included. But I dont use nail polish (I dont
have breasts)
So I dont know much about it, except that it seems to be durable, and
needs acetone to remove.

Nail polish is lacquer with color (and sometimes a filler) The brush that
comes with it is way too big for your purpose. You would need a #1 or #0
round artist's brush. Maybe even 2/0.

http://www.misterart.com/chart-brush-sizes.html

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____________________________

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wrote:

I was wondering about trying nail polish. I know they sell a metallic
silver, and a brush is included. But I dont use nail polish (I dont
have breasts)

Just tell the checkout person at the market it's for your wife. Red lipstick
can be very handy when fitting parts but I never was questioned about the
purchase. Now going into JoAnn Fabrics looking for naugahyde to recover my
motorcycle saddle can get a little strange... Michaels isn't much better.

On 12/17/2014 9:57 AM, rbowman wrote:
wrote:

I was wondering about trying nail polish. I know they sell a metallic
silver, and a brush is included. But I dont use nail polish (I dont
have breasts)

Just tell the checkout person at the market it's for your wife. Red lipstick
can be very handy when fitting parts but I never was questioned about the
purchase. Now going into JoAnn Fabrics looking for naugahyde to recover my
motorcycle saddle can get a little strange... Michaels isn't much better.


I've carried nail polish in my locksmith tool
box, for about twenty years. Only been asked
twice, in that time.

-
..
Christopher A. Young
Learn about Jesus
www.lds.org
..

On Monday, December 15, 2014 10:42:59 PM UTC-6, wrote:
Yea, I know keyboards are not that costly, but it works fine, so why
replace it just because of a little paint.... Plus I like the feel of
this one.

If this was a higher quality keyboard with injection molded characters...they would not have worn out. Buy a new one or go to Goodwill and pay $5 or less...you may get lucky!

rbowman wrote:
Thomas wrote:

If you wore off the letters, chances are you know where each key is and
don't need to re-do them. No?

No. I'm not a touch typist by any means and most of the letters on this
keyboard are gone. With my 2 or 3 finger typing style once I get indexed I
can get by but finding the 'i' instead of 'o' or 'u' is iffy.

i flunked typing in Jr. High, (manual typewriters, ugh!)
yet by the time i was through the second year of college i'd
used four different keyboards.

the most important bits are those two little bumps on the
keys which tell you where the f and j are at. all else after
knowing those is via training. do it 80-100hrs a week and
you'll learn.

for a tough typist on a kwerty keyboard the i is like
giving the finger a little with the right hand. lift the
middle finger a bit and it's right there. if that doesn't
work your hands are out of position and that will slow you
down a great deal.


songbird (yes, the first thing i do on any keyboard is
break the F'n shift keys!!!

songbird wrote:

i flunked typing in Jr. High, (manual typewriters, ugh!)
yet by the time i was through the second year of college i'd
used four different keyboards.

When U was in high school, there were two paths, college entrance or
business/shop. The business kids took typing and Spanish. College entrance
kids took 2 years of Latin followed by 2 years of French for liberal arts
types or Germans for the engineering/science types, no typing.

So 50 years later after spending a lot of my career programming I still
can't type well, and the translations we do for our Puerto Rico site are
Google fuels Spanglish they must find hilarious. I've retained enough German
to sort of make sense of speigel.de. Latin, well, I'm reading Schopenhauer
and he throws in snippets from classical Roman authors that I sometime can
recognize a few words.

I never went to a high school reunion or I'd probably ask them why they
didn't teach me something useful like typing and Spanish.

On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 10:22:18 AM UTC-6, songbird wrote:

i flunked typing in Jr. High, (manual typewriters, ugh!)
yet by the time i was through the second year of college i'd
used four different keyboards.

I remember typing class...all Remington manual typewriters...by 1 month most of the girls could type 30 w/m and most guys took 3 months! (1962)

On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 21:37:55 -0800 (PST), bob_villa
wrote:

On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 10:22:18 AM UTC-6, songbird wrote:

i flunked typing in Jr. High, (manual typewriters, ugh!)
yet by the time i was through the second year of college i'd
used four different keyboards.

I remember typing class...all Remington manual typewriters...by 1 month
most of the girls could type 30 w/m and most guys took 3 months! (1962)

I remember those old typewriters, and they took a lot more finger power
to work them keys. I took typing class, and never could get the hang of
using all of my fingers as instructed. Worst of all was the lack of
DELETE or BACKSPACE keys. Half my page was "whiteout" when I was done.
That was in the early to mid 1960's for me too.

All the expectations of "proper" typing left me with a bad taste
regarding typing. But in the 80's I kept needing to have things
submitted in a typed format. That either meant typing it on a manual
typewriter, using a lot of whiteout, and making a photo copy to actually
submit, or paying someone else to type it. Eventually I bought an
electronic typewriter (Word Processor). It would hold about four or
five typed pages in memory, and errors could be fixed before printing.
To me, that seemed like the greatest thing ever.

A few years later, I bought my first computer, which used the old 5 1/4
floppy disks, and had a black and amber monitor. Having the ability to
save what I typed on a disk, and be able to print it again at a later
date seemed to be a whole new world. Plus those early computers could
do spreadsheets, which I never really needed, but I had to play around
with them. Those early computers were not much more than glorified
electronic typewriters, but still a huge improvement over the old manual
typewriters.

The computers of today, are a whole different world. They can still do
word processing and spreadsheets, but so much more. ANd even do so with
full color screens, versus the old black and white (or amber) monitors,
or later on the black, white, magenta, and cyan monitors. (3 color, and
damn ugly).

I still remember the old BBS modem connections, when you could connect
with someone else in your area, chat, share a few really ugly pictures,
and download some Dos based shareware app. Then came the internet..
Websites, Usenet, Email, and a few other things which are no longer
used.

In my opinion, the older internet was a lot more fun and useful than it
is today. Most young people dont even know what a newsgroup is, but
they are all addicted to that worthless mass of junk called "Facebook".

But that seems to be the way with all technology. We dreamed to have
"COLOR TV". We finally got it, and then HDTV. Now we have the
"perfect" picture, but the tv programming is trash. And we have
computers that can do almost anything, but they are mostly used for
trash and flooded with more trash advertising and malware.

The times they are a changing. But in some ways, I'd rather go back to
better days. Just NOT a manual typewriter!

On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 01:26:54 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

Instructables.com has an article on restoring the factory look, but
it won't last long unless you coat the tops with something clear,
and even that will wear off:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Rest...Keyboard-Keys/

Funny thing, the keyboard they show on this webpage is the exact same
keyboard I have, and the same keys are worn as they mentioned, (plus a
few more). It's an eMachines keyboard. Seems like they used quality
electronics and cheap paint on the keys!!!

Someone in the comments at the bottom mentioned a Dymo label maker.
Hmmmmm, I got one of those somewhere.... I used to label electronics
inputs and outputs, etc. with it, and it worked well. I'll have to look
for that thing. That's probably the easiest way to fix this.

On Thursday, December 18, 2014 2:18:37 AM UTC-6, wrote:

Jerry...seeing we are both near the same age, I feel I can say this...throw the ****ing **** keyboard in the recycle bin or give it to Goodwill.
The one you have is like 95% of the keyboards out there...resistive contact/ silicone cups.
Also, "Many keyboards were found to have 5 times the bacteria found on the average toilet seat".

On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 06:06:39 -0800 (PST), bob_villa
wrote:

On Thursday, December 18, 2014 2:18:37 AM UTC-6, wrote:

Jerry...seeing we are both near the same age, I feel I can say this...throw the ****ing
**** keyboard in the recycle bin or give it to Goodwill.

The one you have is like 95% of the keyboards out there...resistive contact/ silicone cups.
Also, "Many keyboards were found to have 5 times the bacteria found on the average toilet seat".

I know it's no fancy or expensive keyboard, but it works well, and has
outlasted many others I have had. The last one I had, the keys got
stuck, one by one. It was just raw plastic against plastic. Even
removing the problem ones and cleaning them well, they stuck. It was
like the plastic had expanded or something. (Which you'd think would
wear, not expand). THAT I could not tolerate and tossed it. I'm not
gonna spend any real money on this one, but I'm gonna try to find my
Dymo label maker, and use that. If I got to buy a roll of Dymo "label
stuff", I will, because it has other uses.

I will avoid black keyboards in the future though. I had white (ivory)
ones in the past which had the same problem. A fine point black
permanent marker was so easy to use.

And BTW, my older laptop computer has a black built in keyboard, so that
is not easy to replace. I do have a few keys on there starting to wear
off the lettering too, so I have a dual fix to do.

I'm not worried about bacteria. It's everywhere. But I do take my
keyboards out to the garage and blow out the dust with my air compressor
at least once a year. I DONT use a vacuum cleaner anymore. I had a key
get sucked into the vac once. THAT SUCKED (literally)

Just because we live in a disposible society dont mean we need to be
wasteful.

posted for all of us...



I have a computer keyboard with black keys, and white letters on them.
Several of the letters have worn off the keys. I'm wondering if there
is some sort of white permanent marker to use to put the numbers back,
or something else?

Yea, I know keyboards are not that costly, but it works fine, so why
replace it just because of a little paint.... Plus I like the feel of
this one.

Sharpie has silver and gold markers. I don't believe they have white. You
could try white typing correction fluid but I think it will chip off easily.
I think you will spend more in fixes than a new one is worth.

--
Tekkie

On Thursday, December 18, 2014 2:20:04 PM UTC-6, wrote:

And BTW, my older laptop computer has a black built in keyboard, so that
is not easy to replace. I do have a few keys on there starting to wear
off the lettering too, so I have a dual fix to do.

I've bought a couple laptop keyboards off ebay for under $10...both were for Dells.

Just because we live in a disposible society don't mean we need to be
wasteful.

You can remove the circuit board and recycle the plastic.

I'm cheap, but my guess is you are cheaper! ;^)

On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 14:18:49 -0600, wrote:

On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 06:06:39 -0800 (PST), bob_villa
wrote:

On Thursday, December 18, 2014 2:18:37 AM UTC-6, wrote:

Jerry...seeing we are both near the same age, I feel I can say this...throw the ****ing
**** keyboard in the recycle bin or give it to Goodwill.

The one you have is like 95% of the keyboards out there...resistive contact/ silicone cups.
Also, "Many keyboards were found to have 5 times the bacteria found on the average toilet seat".

I know it's no fancy or expensive keyboard, but it works well, and has
outlasted many others I have had. The last one I had, the keys got
stuck, one by one. It was just raw plastic against plastic. Even
removing the problem ones and cleaning them well, they stuck. It was
like the plastic had expanded or something. (Which you'd think would
wear, not expand). THAT I could not tolerate and tossed it. I'm not
gonna spend any real money on this one, but I'm gonna try to find my
Dymo label maker, and use that. If I got to buy a roll of Dymo "label
stuff", I will, because it has other uses.

I will avoid black keyboards in the future though. I had white (ivory)
ones in the past which had the same problem. A fine point black
permanent marker was so easy to use.

And BTW, my older laptop computer has a black built in keyboard, so that
is not easy to replace. I do have a few keys on there starting to wear
off the lettering too, so I have a dual fix to do.

I'm not worried about bacteria. It's everywhere. But I do take my
keyboards out to the garage and blow out the dust with my air compressor
at least once a year. I DONT use a vacuum cleaner anymore. I had a key
get sucked into the vac once. THAT SUCKED (literally)

Just because we live in a disposible society dont mean we need to be
wasteful.
Rescue a good keyboard from goodwill or whatever and pitch the old
one.

What brand and model is the one you have?

On 12/18/2014 3:18 PM, wrote:
wear, not expand). THAT I could not tolerate and tossed it. I'm not
gonna spend any real money on this one, but I'm gonna try to find my
Dymo label maker, and use that. If I got to buy a roll of Dymo "label
stuff", I will, because it has other uses.

I will avoid black keyboards in the future though. I had white (ivory)
ones in the past which had the same problem. A fine point black
permanent marker was so easy to use.


Would several other people reply to this, he
must have me blocked. Tell the guy that
Harbor Freight has "ink pens" with white
ink, some what like the junk yards use.

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..
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Learn about Jesus
www.lds.org
..

bob_villa wrote:

I remember typing class...all Remington manual typewriters...by 1 month
most of the girls could type 30 w/m and most guys took 3 months! (1962)

There was a guy in high school that was very strange. He always brought his
lunch in a tin lunchbox that was painted like a barn and I'm pretty sure his
mother dressed him funny every morning. Maybe Asperger's or something. But
that son of a bitch could type. He was the fastest typist in the school and
he put out clean copy. iirc he could do a consistent 120 wpm.