keytops (Question)

[Ron Nossaman]

>What it turned out to be - those few (actually quite a few) remaining
>hard-to-level keys - after taking the keys out and examining them closely -
>it was the keytops that were far, far from level. They were wavy. High here,
>low there, sloping over here on this one (I could get height variations of
>up to 0.025" on an individual keytop, depending on where I put the leveling
>stick). I would level with my leveling bar over the keypin position, and
>look at the front edge of the keys to see how nice and level they were and
>they would be all over the place.
>
>Amazing what flat keytops can do for leveling them!  :-)
>
>Terry Farrell


Another excellent reason for not only removing the keytop, but planing the
key flat too. 

Ron N