Re: 9815 Keyboard Disassembly Message #3 Posted by Tony Duell on 15 Aug 2011, 4:23 a.m., in response to message #1 by aj04062
Those aren't solder blobs, they're metal pins. Some HP9815 keyboards were assembled by screws (lots of them!), others with these pins.
I think you can get them out by warming them with a soldering iron and then using a pair of cutters to grip them and pull them out, Once they're all free, the PCB comes off, and the keys will fall out (I learnt that the hard way!).
If you can find some small self-tapping screws, I think I'd use those to reassemble it.
As to whether it's worth doing, I'd probably not bother. Too much risk in damaging something that still works. Now if a key didn't work at all, I'd take it apart.
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