Has anyone done this!!!!

[Geoff Quickfall]

When I was working at the airline I would need to draw up a flight plan at the gate. Dot matrix printer and all that. Noticed the keyboards would not function on some of the keys at various locations we flew to.

One day, a gate agent picked up the keyboard and dropped it from about 2 feet onto the counter, then proceeded to type. I asked why and she told me “that is how I get them to work on all the keys.”

So I picked it up, turned it upside down and gave the keyboard a good shake. Out fell 10 staples! Then I placed the keyboard carefully, back onto the counter.

Found out later that the gate agent got a company award for developing a way to fix the keyboards by turning them upside down and shaking them to remove staples and to not staple over the keyboards!

Also, done the coffee thing, but in my case it was a glass of port on the laptop in business class!

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As an aside, keyboards became so cheap in the 90’s that repairing them for clients became too expensive at my hourly rate. Cheaper to by a new one instead of disassembly, cleaning and re-assembly. But, I did throw a couple in the bathtub with dish detergent and then rinse and dry thoroughly. That worked on the spillage front!

Geoff