How Stupid am I?!

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Momma

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I have just stupidly managed to snap off the F12 Key on my G4 17" Powerbook, as a fellow Mac user I am sure you know how infuriating this is! I have tried to re attach it but one of the "feet" needed to snap the key back into place has come off.

can anybody point me towards a replacement F12 Key? If not could you recommend me to a website us or uk that will be able to help me.

thanks

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A new one has just opened in birmingham which i can access easily, i think i have fixed it, i sort of pushed a metal hook up and got the key's hook underneath it, i then pressed it down really hard and it seem ok, i will give it a few days to see if it is ok, what can i do at the apple store ask them for a replacement F12 Key?

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At my last job we had a couple iBook that we used to "steal" keys from whenever one of the other notebooks lost one of theirs. In a school you can imagine that we'd go through quiet a few keys in a short period of time. When this particular notebook got particularly bare I'd just go to the Apple reseller we got our warrenty work done and dropped it off: they would replace the keys for free. Granted, we did 5-figure business with them so we did get preferential treatment but they said the keys only cost a few cents and they'd replace "normal" customer's keys for free too.

Try just asking for one from the place you bought your computer, it shouldn't cost more than a couple of dollars in the worst case.

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I accidently snapped some keys off my iBook once, I went to my local Apple stores, and they fixed it up, they only wobble a little bit now. Just a little different than the keys that never fell off. :)

The other case would be that you need a new $50 keyboard. (well, at least the iBook keyboard is 50)

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Momma

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it seems to be ok, its not as "solid" as it was before but its not fallen off yet, i ordered it from the apple store uk (online) on the weekend i will goto the apple store in bham and see if i can get another F12 key off them. if anybody comes accross one let us know would ya! i have to get a 17" keyb oard F12 right i cant use a 15" or 12" ??

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I have just stupidly managed to snap off the F12 Key on my G4 17" Powerbook, as a fellow Mac user I am sure you know how infuriating this is! I have tried to re attach it but one of the "feet" needed to snap the key back into place has come off.

can anybody point me towards a replacement F12 Key? If not could you recommend me to a website us or uk that will be able to help me.

thanks

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How did you manage to snap it off in the first place...? :huh:

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Heh, Go to your nearest apple store, and steal one of the F12 keys from their display, and then.. Run like a Mother..... cause those apple people, Boy they'll get hissy if you mess with the hardware :p

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Oh yeas they do :woot: When we went there last time we put the microsoft website up on all there computers LOL only joking though I like apple :p but I did it just for fun :p

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i messed up my W

used a needle to get the little foot out from under it

some tweezers and nimble fingers to get that back together

needle again to get it back in

reattached the W

all is well

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:p Me too!!! I dont know how, but yea. It was a pain seriously. Would be much easier to lift the keyboard up out of its slot and take it out and fix it, but still. A pain. It should work fine for you now dude. Just see what happens.

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