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Clean your vintage IBM M2 clicky keyboard!

Step 7Don't panic

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Now if you're a star pupil and have actually been working along with me, you're panicking because there aren't enough springs for holes in the keyboard. Sorry, I should have warned you sooner.

Each key gets one spring, even if it's a big one. You can look at your keyboard, the electrical circuitry and the backside of the keys to figure it out for yourself, but here's a shortcut. Just follow the pattern in this pic and you should be fine.

By the way, here's the backside of the long Enter and + keys from the number pad. The spring goes in the top notch, not the fully enclosed one.
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