Apple Keyboard (A1048) - Restoration
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- Many collectors have this type of keyboards floating around in their basements. Most of them are quite dirty and they will never get restored or cleaned. I thought I will give it a go and get all I own done by the end of this year.
Apple released this new Keyboard with the new eMac on the 6th May 2003. It was the replacement for the Apple Pro Keyboard with the USB Ports on the left and right.
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This is how I imagine a professional guide for cleaning the keyboard. It's a precise job. There is nothing wrong with that.
Thank you!
Im so glad to have one of these in perfect working condition. So fun to type on now and then
This channel definitely deserves more way more attention!
thanks to you i finally cleaned this keyboard i bought from the secondhand shop
Love it. Got one of these for free today in great condition! Still going to clean it up a bit. Great keyboard.
I have that keyboard since about 2006 and I completely took it apart cleaned it just a few weeks ago. I had to retrace one or two of the conducting paths of the foil quite early on, about 2010-ish. I used conductive silver lacquer for it. Still works!
Great video! Watched the whole thing. Hoping to get one of these "vintage" Apple keyboards shortly.
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YOO thanks, I got this keyboard in rough shape and now its fixed!
Great video! I need to take mine apart as I have a couple keys that aren't working properly. Thanks!
Patients...wow..thank you for that video of this...🙏🙏
I love dusty keyboards!
Nice! This really helped me clean and put mine back together!
Awesome video .... Really clean work.... Great
what a great work. Congrats from Colombia. South America. Im about to buy that same keyboard, preowned and not in great shape. Im considering to follow the same DIY. congrats again
Hello, I have same working keyboard.... Wired as well as Bluetooth keyboard.... If you want you can buy it from me....
@@zaidmansuri8897 SOUNDS GREAT. But shipping from US to South America, use to be more expensive that item cost itself. Here in my country I can get a wired one for 5 bucks or a bit more
@@arevaleau can we contact on mail that would be easy to cordinate.
even if you wanna practice your spanish or learn it, I could support you for free
Nice job. Can i ask what are those cleaning fluids? thanks
To clean all the things in the first place I use regular dish soap and warm water. Most of the other cleaning ist made with windex or anything similar. In the end I use a ABS Polish. (the bottle is shown in the video)
Thank you for this video.
NICE!
I don't see where you put the Caps lock LED light back in?????
You put it in the white inner plastic where the keys get pushed in. Be sure that its in the right direction … you van see a little guidance in the plastic where the hole for the LED is. The contacts have to make contact to the tracks on the foil.
If only apple would return to there past
I’m unable to remove the 2 screws on the side of the circuit board 🙃 yours looked so easy to remove mine are stuck stuck
Sometimes those small screws are really tricky ... you will get them all out! Be patient and you will not damage anything.
Shouldn’t the Y and Z key be exchanged?
It‘s a german qwertz layout.
@@lakesideretrotech8588I noticed the keys were wrong too
Is it possible to switch out these keycaps with other membrane keycaps?
Hello, what would you suggest if the flex of my keyboard was accidentally damaged with a lemonade (literally). Part of my right keys are not working now, I even tried to clean the whole internal flex with alcohol. I removed the sweet substances and part of the dirty thing that I found. But, the keyboard still does not works fine. Would you suggest anything that I'm not thinking in please? Great video btw
Hello, i would suggest to take everything apart completely. You should clean everything with alcohol to get the last bit of sugar out. You can even separate the foils and clean them one after the other. Leave them for a few min to dry but if the liquid caused damage to the tracks on the foil it wont help much. You are not taking any risk at all cause if you leave it that way it will stay damaged … so go for it.
Hello Retrotech! I have the wireless model of this keyboard. Will send to you for keeps if you make video restoring it. Let me know!
That´s a very nice offer. Right now I am heading into a seasonal break. If you still like to see it by the end of the year, I can try to make a good video.
my same model keyboard's left shift doesn't work. ı don't think it is broken. ıs there any way to fix it?
Great video! what size torx screwdriver did you use? I am going to attempt to clean mine as well
or what hex wrench? sorry i am not familiar with the terminology
What tools are needed to take apart the keyboard?
You will need something to remove the key caps (flat head screwdriver does the job if you are careful), phillips head screwdriver and a hex bit. I actually don´t know the size of the hex bit but it´s kinda small. That´s about it. Everything else is convenience.
whichever screw driver did you use
Z and Y were placed on wrong holes.
It‘s a german layout, where Z and Y are placed like in the video. If you are having an international layout they have to be swapped.
Is this mechanical
No, these are no mechanical switches. The keys are pushed up by a round piece of rubber.
Would you be willing to repair mine?
I am sure your‘s will be fine, if you give it a try.
@@lakesideretrotech8588 I wouldn't dare disassemble the keyboard and it looks expensive to have a tech do so. Thanks for the reply.