Thursday, November 10, 2022

HP Prime Keyboard repair

 My ".", "_" and "SIN" keys on the keyboard didn't click any more and where sunken away in the keyboard. Clearly not the quality of the HP Voyager ancestor.

Taking it apart was nicely explained at ifixit!

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/HP+Prime+Graphing+Calculator+G8X92A+Button+Panel+Replacement/137052

The little points on the three key's where completely squashed. And a couple of them where comletely bend.

I wanted to bend some back with hot air at 160 degrees celcius with a hollow needle. This went extemely well! Even better, the hot air caused the little points, that where completely squashed, to spring back in it's original shape withouth any help! 

Only looks a little burnt, hope this hardens the points too.

It went so easy that i don't have any "before" photo's. 

Hope this can be of good use for anyone with this problem.