Following a feline attack on my laptop, I need a replacement key cover for the Backspace key. Actually I just need the little white plastic spring that goes underneath the key cover. The laptop in question is a Dell Latitude C640. I’ve scoured the web and E-Bay but can only seem to find entire keyboards for circa $99, which seems a little overkill just for this one little key.
Anyone know where I could order such a part?
Silly suggestion: Is there another key on the keyboard that you don’t use, which you can steal the spring from and place it behind the backspace key? (You don’t reallly need caps lock, do you?)
-lv
That’s not silly at all - I’ll check to see if the Caps Lock key is the same size. Would like to get this fixed properly eventually, though.
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As I was saying before IE crashed, go to eBay and search for non-working Latitudes; you can often get these quite cheap.
At ebay, you don’t need to buy a whole keyboard, write the person with the auctions & ask them if they have a spare key spring handy.
Well, as I know you’re all dying to find out 
I called up Dell, and it seems my laptop is still under warranty. Kudos to Dell - I got straight through (no waiting on hold), the tech told me he’d ship me a whole new keyboard and even send a tech out to install it. No more messing with little plastic springs for me.