Keyboard Refrigerator Magnets - New Method

Step 6 The Tricky Keys

For the enter and spacebar keys, you'll first need to remove a few little plastic tabs before you can glue the magnet on. To do this, you'll need your cutting pliers. Simply snip off the extruding tabs using brute strength. For this step, wear safety goggles (or shield your eyes.) I had one plastic tab that ricocheted off of several objects in my kitchen before coming to rest on the floor. Then just sand off any little bits of the tab that are left. Then you can glue the magnet on.

Also, if you're grouping the arrow keys like I did, make sure you got them into the correct configuration or they'll look odd. To make sure that they're in the correct alignment, make sure that all of the pictures on the keys are in the same place (all arrows in upper-left corner.) Also, make sure that all of the keys slant the same direction. If you are using a standard desktop keyboard, this usually means that the keys have a lower top than bottom when lying flat.

If you are making a group of keys that has more than one row, and the keys stick off of the magnetic strip a bit, make sure you glue them really well so that they don't fall off. Some of my arrow keys came off the strip after I was finished, so I had to use a stronger glue to repair them.