Am 31.01.2016 um 07:21 schrieb Sherry K. Shaw:
> The internal organs of this gadget sound somewhat similar to those of
> the Microsoft Ergonomic Whatsit of some years back, the one that vaguely
> resembled a grand piano.  I trust that you've wiped down *all* the
> contacts with an alcohol prep pad...?
> 
> As I recall, the trick with the MS Whozit was to lift out the sheet with
> the printed circuits, tip it slightly, and squint at it--*any* spot that
> the looked a little brownish or burnt got a good wipe-down with alcohol.
>  I did manage to resurrect a couple of them multiple times with this
> treatment.

There are a few problems with applying this remedy to my G19:

- The G19's printed circuits sheet isn't a single sheet, but again a
sandwich of three sheets: A single-sided upper contact layer, a spacer,
and another apparently double-sided layer. These layers are heat-welded
together at strategic points, making it difficult to get a good glimpse
of the contacts from an angle, let alone access them specifically.

- I don't have any alcohol at home - not even a beer ;)

- There is plenty of evidence that the brown ooze never ever reached the
U and I key contacts, and instead wreaked havoc somewhere else to kill
an entire row of the key matrix (the G19 has 5-key rollover, so it is
reasonable to assume that the rows and columns of the matrix are only
sparsely populated).


> And consider--if you can get U and I to work, you can live without caps
> lock.  :)

Yeah, that thought had already crossed my mind, too ;)

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