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Keyboard pads anyone?

There are some things in life that we take for granted. One of them is the
keyboard. And when it stops working, it frustrates the hell out of you.

The keys on my keyboard progressively stopped working today. So I decided to
open it up. You see, electrical gadgets start working when they are opened up
and repackaged. So after opening it, I looked around inside for any obvious
flaw. When I saw none, I decided to put it back together (the original intent
was to drop it from a height of 15 cms or so after putting it back together,
but I didn't need to get to that step).

Now, the keyboard has some soft pads on the keys that look like contact
lenses. While assembling the keyboard, I found that three of these pads had
vanished. Well, its sort of expected, with the third law of thermodynamics
messing with our lives. No process is perfectly reversible. So right now,
three of my keys are sunk in and are not working. I shuffled the missing ones
for the least used ones. One of them happens to be 'Enter' on the numeric pad
on the right. The other two (the Windows logo one and another one to its
right), I've never used.

But I'd still like to have my keyboard without any of them sunk in. So if you
have some spare pads (which provide the key contacts inside), I'm accepting
donations. And I'll be always indebted to you. Well, at least till this
keyboard continues to work.

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