Refurbishing a ZX Spectrum 16K (Part 3)
After posting the last article on refurbishing the ZX Spectrum I got a tip from Alex (a.k.a. ZX Wife) via Twitter on what I could try to resolve the issue with the keyboard as soon as the case was completely screwed down. Together with Ian she forms the team behind Mutant Caterpillar.
https://twitter.com/zx_wife/status/1010155645386022914
I was on my holiday break when I got the suggestion, but now I am back so it’s time to follow up on her suggestion and open up the troublesome ZX Spectrum again…
Still had some electrical tape laying around from which I cut a piece big enough to cover the length of the RF modulator
![Some electrical tap](/public/electrical_tape.png)
Applied the piece of tape to the RF modulator of the ZX Spectrum and the job is done
![Applied electrical tape to the RF modulator](/public/keyboard_fix.png)
This time I closed the case of the ZX Spectrum by tightening all of the screws on the backplate. And… the keyboard works perfectly .
Interesting too see what a difference a little piece of electrical tape can make…