C64 Back From The Dead! Part 4: Franken-Keyboard

C64 Keyboard fixes! Reshaping a rubber contact dome with fire and refabricating the shift-lock mechanical switch.
Watch the previous episodes on how we fixed video, audio and case discoloration issues
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[@nefaurora]

Your Mitsumi Hellvica keyboard is a very, very early one...Literally one of the first Hellvica keyboards off of the line. It really is a "Franken-keyboard". It has the failure prone rubber cups of the Eurostile keyboard, and the Early PET Keyboard Notoriously horrible Futaba/Mitsumi PET Shift-Lock Key switch. Personally, Since it's a Hellvica font keyboard, and not a Eurostile Font or Early PET Keyboard, I would remove and dump the keyboard and use it for parts for a Eurostile and PET keyboard which use the same internals as the keyboard you have and swap it out for the later Die-hard reliable Mitsumi Hellvica (2nd Gen) Keyboard found in 2 million VICs and 17 Million C64's...which also have the later Die-hard Shift-Lock Key switches too which never fail. Tony K. ;)

[@jstinn123]

I would be interested in watching the c64 printer repair video. I hope it goes well. Thanks.