I have a pair of 8032 Pets. One of them has a short on the motherboard that causes the fuse to blow whenever it's turned on - looks like its previous owner tried to repair it as the power connector is a bit burned and a new, non-pet power connector has been added. Likely one of the power transistors in the heatsinkis blown, and maybe a bridge or two - and it only has 2 unlike the other one which has 3. This one will take some time to fix, so I'll set it aside for now.
The other is almost fully working, but the keyboard requires an insane amount of pressure on some of the keys to work, while the others are just fine. I'm trying to find out if the keys conductive or capacitive. Anyone know? I suspect they're conductive, but don't want to damage them further. Would getting a conductive pen and painting the rubber bits help, or is there another way to fix these? If they're conductive, it may be that the conductive rubber is worn out and despite my cleaning both the contacts on the board, and the rubber on the keys with a contact cleaner they won't work right. I don't think it's the cable - I swapped out the keyboard cable from the dead pet and the same exact keys are dead. I also cleaned the board of dust and used contact cleaner on the tape/IEEE488 ports, etc. I took both keyboards apart and cleaned them in an attempt to get a working pet, but no luck, both have different keys that don't quite work unless a lot of pressure is put on them. The keyboards look different, but seem to both somewhat work. I was able to use the keyboard from the power dead pet in the other one and most of the keys work, except for much of the top numeric row, including, sadly the 2 key which has the quote on it, which prevents the loading of programs off my petdisk.
