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intro: Restore Painted Letters on Keyboard Keys
My laptop and our new desktop computer have cool looking black keys with white painted letters. After a while, certain keys lose their painted letters from fingernail
strikes. Note the A, S, D, H, L, E, R, T, O, N, and M keys. I low light it can be hard to find the right key. There is a way to restore the damaged keys without paying the
price of a new keyboard for caps.
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step 3: Apply clear tape to the letters
Paper letters would not wear well on a keyboard. Cover them with a good quality of clear tape. The light areas over the A and between the E and R are from light
reflecting off of the tape.
It works better to make the letters a bit smaller than the key surface. Notice the T. Smaller is better than an edge that extends beyond the key surface and continually
catches on your fingers as you type. If a letter is poorly aligned after you apply it, peel it off and apply it again.
Refurbishing painted letters damaged by fingernail contact makes your keyboard easier to use, even though you know how to touch type and even though they are not a
perfect replacement. They also seem to wear well and the touch of your fingers on them is nearly identical to a keyboard without the new additions to your keyboard.
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Thanks for the idea. I had a similar problem and used a white correcting pen to draw new symbols on the keys. It works, but the correction fluid wears off
quickly and a printed ampersand, '&', will be much better than what I drew which looks more like this ' 8'.
Contact one of the Admins directly, they can make sure that there are no problems with your account.
Upon publishing an Instructable, if it does not show up in the recent list within contact one of the Admins - Noah, or Fungus are the best two, and
tell them its stuck in the filters
Personally, i have found that when one of my Ibles gets stuck in the filters, once it has been 'released' it actually appears first in the list.
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