space bar quit working on sony laptop

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I sprayed some of that canned air into our keyboard to blast out the
debris and in the process have lost the use of the space bar.
The other keys have the feel of some kind of spring under the key, but
the space bar just feels flat. It will let me press it down, but
there's no "spring" feel to it.

Any ideas on how to repair this?
Are the keys removeable without damaging it permanently?
I might have blasted something out of place with that canned air.
Thanks in advance.

 

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Key should be easily removable, on my laptop I think lifting up the front of
it works... (I managed to flick one off once by catching it with my jumper's
frayed ends - you could try this).

You probably unlatched one of the plastic springy thingys... I'd have a go
trying to remove the spacebar and then put it back on.

Duncan.

"fantabular" <fantabular@cox.net> wrote in message
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> I sprayed some of that canned air into our keyboard to blast out the
> debris and in the process have lost the use of the space bar.
> The other keys have the feel of some kind of spring under the key, but
> the space bar just feels flat. It will let me press it down, but
> there's no "spring" feel to it.
>
> Any ideas on how to repair this?
> Are the keys removeable without damaging it permanently?
> I might have blasted something out of place with that canned air.
> Thanks in advance.