Pinebook 14" keyboard misses keypresses UPDATE

[MarkHaysHarris777]

          


This is the tear-down at this point;  this is very tedious and exacting work because it all has to go back together without being damaged. Everything is taped and riveted. All the connectors are very fragile and easily broken, and many of the wires are delicate.

The left pic is my bag of guts !  The right pic has the keyboard module ffc cable peeled back ( it is stuck to the shield board with some tacky 'stuff' that is almost impossible to remove, but I managed. All of the white dots are actually styrene plastic rivets ( fifty-eight [58] of them ) which hold the shield in place, as well the module under it !  Also, the module itself is also  riveted to the bottom case top bezel;  I think you can clearly see why the issue is NOT firmness of the keyboard !  Just the opposite, that keyboard module is so firmly attached to the bottom case top bezel that its damn near impossible to remove it without damaging something !  Stuffing things into the case is not only a waste of time, its silly.

The Plan

If you look carefully in the top right corner of the right pic you will see that the robot missed one of the 58 styrene rivets !  yay   ... I only have to remove 57 of them !

The plan at this point is to carefully remove all 57 of the remaining rivets and save them.  After cleanup and install of the replacement module, I will use a special tip on my solder station and refuse the rivets ( this also will be tedious but should work fine since the styrene material is inject molded and recycleable ).

Of course the keyboard module must be removed in exactly the same way.  I plan to use aluminum tape sparingly when I remount the module and shield. 

stay tuned, its about to get messy



   


Note:  The pic above is the tool I'm using to do the work, and the first two ( of 57 ) rivets removed !  haha ;  only 55 rivets to go!   " 55 rivets of beer on the wall, 55 rivets of beer,  take one down and pass it around, 54 rivets of beer on the wall ! "   


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