IBM Restoration Tools

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• Razor blade or chisel (if you can’t find a razor blade)
• Distilled water
• Rubbing alcohol
• Keycap puller
• 1/16” (or 51) bit drill (dremel)
• drill
• Screw, nut and washer (70 each?)
• Screw x70
  • M2 screw, 8 mm
    • M2x0.4 (2mm Standard).
    • Thread Length: 8
    • Material: Zinc Plated Steel
  • OR
    • 2mm diameter screws
    • 6.35 mm (1/4”) to 8 mm long
    • 0.4mm thread spacing
    • 
• Nut x70
  • M2 nut
  • OR 2mm x 0.4 Hex nuts
• Washer x70
  • M2 washer
  • OR 2.5 mm washer
  • 

Ansi Mod

• 1 horizontal stabilizer
• 7 1u keys
  • 6 pebble
    • delete arrow
  • 1 pearl with 0
• 2.25u left shift
• 2.25u ansi enter
• 1.5u forward slash (needed by both layouts)
• (at least) 5 spring assemblies
• 1.25u ___
• 1.75u ___

Notes - 24 function keys + 10 extra keys + 20 numpad keys + 11 nav keys + 62 alpha keys = 127 total membrane contacts - If you order a ‘printed’ Pearl/Pebble colour-set they are 2-piece, other colours are 1 piece - alphas were pearl and mods/backspace were pebble

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