Fix “Soft” Keys on your Apple Aluminium Keyboard
Are you a 99.9% happy Apple Keyboard user? Chances are, the thing lost that other .1% because sometimes the keys just aren’t as responsive as you’d like them to be. Well, there’s an easy fix. Just grab your toolbox and follow me!
First, you’ll need to grab a few things. The first is a guitar pick. You can get them at a music store for about 75 cents, a medium gauge will be best for this job. If you don’t have a guitar pick, a credit card or a thin nail file will work as well.
Be especially careful with the spacebar key, don’t jerk right in the middle, you’ll snap it. Remeber to check which way the scissors under the key are going before prying away!
Once you get under the offending key, this is what you should see:
Now for the fix. What you’re going to need, is a regular sheet of paper, some scissors and some tape. For the tape, I’ve found that the clear “Scotch Tape” as our American Friends would call it works best. Take your scissors, and cut a narrow strip out of the paper - about 7 millimetres wide and the length of your thumb. Take it and fold it like you did in kindergarten. Back and forth until you have a small square shape. Now get your tape, and cut a 1 Centimetre by 1 Centimetre piece of tape. Attach it to your bit of paper, with even amounts of excess on all sides.
This is what my finished key looked like:
Watch the video for more in depth information!
