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>The right arrow key on my Macbook Pro keyboard stopped working the other day. I say “stopped working”, but technically it works too well now, it is being pressed constantly, which makes the laptop pretty unusable. After getting over the initial frustration of being the owner of a broken device, I cleaned it. Took the keycap off, used a blower, a brush and even alcohol. Nothing worked.

Archive: https://archive.today/4ho7m From the post: >>The right arrow key on my Macbook Pro keyboard stopped working the other day. I say “stopped working”, but technically it works too well now, it is being pressed constantly, which makes the laptop pretty unusable. After getting over the initial frustration of being the owner of a broken device, I cleaned it. Took the keycap off, used a blower, a brush and even alcohol. Nothing worked.
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So he can get the keyboard relatively inexpensively, he's just not smart enough to figure out how to fix it himself. Maybe I should send him an e-mail and tell him how to drill out rivets and replace them.

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You probably can't buy the keyboard assy by itself, and there's probably no way to re-attach it if you drill out the rivets. Apple has you coming and going.

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I thought his solution was perfect: software fix. I do things like that all the time.

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I think it's great, but it is more of a work around than a fix.