I want to thank everyone who responded to this. It turns out that it is,
in some cases, possible to repair the buttons. Briefly: The easiest
thing is to activate them repeatedly and see if they unstick, following
that, one can try using solvents (such as IPA) to attempt to unstick
them (after disconnecting the keyboard). The next step is to disassemble
the buttons and see if they can be unstuck. If nothing else works, one
can try to swap buttons with other ones that are not used (this won't
work in our case because so many buttons are stuck). Finally, it is
possible to get the keyboards used on eBay and replace the whole thing.
There were also a couple of folks who offered to send us their old ones.
This is such a great list - thank you all for being so helpful!
Tom
> On Feb 23, 2021, at 6:00 PM, Tom Pratum <tkp9551_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone-
> I am thinking this must have been asked here previously: almost half
> the buttons on our BSMS panel do not engage currently. Fortunately the
> most frequently used buttons do, but I can see that at some point in the
> future, using the BSMSDISP to adjust the other shims will not be
> sufficient.
>
> Can these buttons be repaired? Or is replacement of the panel the only option?
>
> Thank you all in advance for any help.
>
>
>
> Tom Pratum
> Southern Oregon Univ.
Received on Thu Feb 25 2021 - 11:23:12 MST