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>Sorry engineer guys, we have two tv reapir businesses and get
>an enormous amount of rubber keypad failures, one of our simple
>easy money jobs. We even purchase the rubber compound paint in
>bulk to re-paint the bottom of the rubber keypads.

Engineer guy with 5M+ systems in the field, and several years working with
the repair departments.
The only "failures" we get are a direct result of mechanical trauma
(bullets, 2x4s) or various tasty beverages.


>Don't use rubber keypads or similar technology anywhere you
>are going to get high volume usage. They are cheap & nasty
>and make me frown. Can't you source an alternative with metal
>contacts?

They can certainly be made "cheap and nasty".

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