JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
This may seem off topic for this newsgroup, but I figured I might find
people here who had disassembled devices that have keypads.

I've got a Panasonic cordless phone whose keypad has stopped working unless
I press extremely hard on the buttons. I took the thing apart and found that
the actual keypad is just sort of a plastic "mat" containing the buttons I
push. It rests on top of a circuit board that has corresponding spots on it
for each button (membrane switches?). The Panasonic web site lists a
replacement keypad, which is nothing but the plastic "mat". Although it's
cheap enough to try replacing that part, I'm wondering if these things
really go bad - maybe get fatigued or compressed over a couple of years. Is
this fix likely to work?


Dont' bother go to walmart a get a new one. The parts are probably going
to be more than a newer more powerful unit.