Had a bit of an accident and have melted a couple of keys on my Macbook Pro..... I swear this thing is cursed. I need to get a new ~ key, a ctrl key and an alt key (total of 3 keys).

Powerbook medics have got them for sale at $8.95 apiece, the only problem is they want $30-odd for postage to the UK.

The keys can be bought from here:

http://www.powerbookmedic.com/Powerbook-Keys-MacBook-Pro---Individual-Key-Keycap-p-16753.html

I'll cover all costs obviously....

Ok, lets get this straight from the start

You can't put up a post like that without exact details of how you manage to melt keys on any laptop let alone a brand fire Macbook Pro

Details and pictures please

Cheers

Cris.

It was a late night in Camden, and I was very drunk.... To avoid incriminating myself I'm not willing to say any more.

Are they UK-specific keys or the same as a US keyset? If they're non-specific, I can probably get you some for free when I'm back from China - might be a couple of weeks before I have them in my hands though (my PB team contact is also in china!)

I guess you might be wanting them more urgently than that though....

Hugo

FireFox is buying them on my behalf (so thanks to him)...... There is a difference between the Euro and US keyboards, but it's all around the enter key where it appears to be different.

You could however, source me a cover release button as mine has tarnished badly and I can't find that anywhere.

Did I fail to mention that I received these and mailed them out a few days ago? Saturday 2/24/07 I think. Let me know if you don't see them soon.

Must be a tutorial online somewhere about how to pry those off. Ah, if only every community had a Tony.

I just bit the bullet and yanked them off in the end, I got three of the little frame things that fit underneath so I wasn't too worried about breaking anything.

While I'm on the subject of bottom burstingly delicate operations, I just upgraded the memory in an Intel Mac Mini tonight. It's quite a tense moment when you're trying to crack the case open with what amounts to a sharpened wallpaper scraper!

Assuming the problems go away (Final Cut thrashing away to disk on big projects and eventually crashing) then I've got another 10 of the buggers to do.