Rubber Keypad Repair Kit BW29K

I have a few suggestions. You can give these a shot if you wish:1. If your remote isn't working, first put in fresh batteries and make sure they're installed the right way. Find the little glass bulb on the end of your remote and make sure there isn't peanut butter or whatever stuck over that. Do some of the functions work, but one or two or three buttons don't? If so, go on to step #2. If NOTHING works and you have fresh batteries and a clean bulb, you're probably better off buying a new remote. You can try steps #2 through #6 anyway, though.2. Get a small flat screwdriver and a small Philips head screwdriver, a bottle of denatured alcohol (or rubbing alcohol), and a bunch of Q-tips and some cotton balls. Take the batteries out of the remote, remove the little screws. They're usually inside the battery housing and they're small so look carefully. Get them all out and put them in a safe space. Once the screws are out, use the flat screwdriver and slowly and carefully work your way around the remote, prying the halves apart. Work slowly and carefully, and gradually increase the amount of force. You'll be a bit nervous about cracking it apart and ruining it, but that probably won't happen if you're slow and careful.3. Once it pops apart, remove the rubber button sheet. My Lord, it's disgusting, isn't it? Make up, cookie crumbs, milk, who knows what else. I like to take it over to the sink and bathe it in warm, soapy water. Letting it soak for a minute is a good idea. The amount of gunk that comes off it is staggering. You can gently loosen the gunk with your fingers. Rinse it off and set it out to dry, It must be totally, 100% dry before you reassemble the remote. I usually pat it dry with a towel and then ever so gently hit it with a hair dryer, very low heat.4. Once the rubber sheet is bone dry, clean the back, the part that touches the circuit board, of the buttons with the alcohol and a Q-tip. Concentrate on the buttons that aren't working.5. Clean the circuit board with the alcohol and Q-tips and cotton balls. The amount of gunk you get off will be astounding. Get the Q-tip soaked in alcohol, and then gently rub it over the board. Don't scrub hard, instead make little swirling motions, and let it dissolve the gunk and then quickly wipe it up with a clean Q-tip. You will go through A LOT of Q-tips.6. Make sure everything is clean and dry, and then reassemble. Try it out. 75% of the time that's all that's needed. What happens is some gunk gets in there and insulates the circuit so even though you're pressing the button, nothing is happening.7. If #s 1-6 don't solve your problem and if you're only having trouble with one or two or three buttons, now is the time for the ButttonWorx repair kit. You've already cleaned everything, so all you do is put one of these jobs on the circuit board where the button isn't working. Put it on there, reassemble, and you're good to go. The instructions that come with the kit are good.This is a good product. It works well and can save a remote that's only having minor problems.

Works like a champ! The hardest thing to do was seperating the two halves of the remote. I opened the remote before ordering this product. I repaired my Sony TV remote in about 10 minutes. The mute, volume, and channel buttons were totally worn out. They all now work perfectely! After cleaning the circuit board with rubbing alchohol, peel and stick a new button on the circuit board, and then reassemble the remote. Thanks for designing this valueable and reasonably priced product. This really gets ten stars**********Seller- you may want to put the product video on Amazon. I found more product info and the video on ebay.

This really works beautifully! The instructions were straighforward but slightly confusing. I thought the stickers should be attached to the worn-out buttons but they're supposed to be stuck onto the circuit board. The sticker floats above the contacts, forming a sandwich with membrane, conductive pad, and a gap a fraction of a millimeter wide. I was worried that there would not be enough space between the old button and contacts to put another rubber contact but now that I see how it works it makes sense.

On a 30 (!) year old Kenwood Receiver that continues to work superbly the remote buttons most used were not working. Strangely, there are a couple features on the remote that ARE NOT ON the front panel. There are some challenges for using this kit. First make note of the buttons that are not reliable. I made a photocopy of the front and made notes on that. You will have to open the remote up, maybe using thin and strong case prying tools to avoid damaging the case, to get access to the board with the buttons. Because once the board is removed all the buttons may come out of place you may want to first put some masking/painter's tape gently on the front of the remote so it sticks to the buttons to help hold them in place. You may have to remove a bunch of tiny screws to lift up the board to get access to the buttons. It is the conductive material on the side of the button facing the circuit board that has worn out. You will be cutting out, with an Exactor knife or tiny sharp scissors, and sticking replacement contact pads directly on the circuit board. When you remove the screws from the board you should put them in a container or one or more of them is bound to go missing. . .I GUARANTEE :-) Once you can see the circuit board with the little "finger print" areas that sense the button press you will want to use a cotton swab and some mild solvent like 91% alcohol to clean the pads and the area around then.You will need to use small and very sharp scissors or an Exacto knife to cut each and every button replacement. The button replacements stick to the circuit board and have a replacement pad in them that floats above the contact sensor. These are a bugger to work with because you have to cut out each replacement and they are SMALL and you have to then peel a tiny protective paper covering the adhesive. (If you find this easy to do you might want to become a doctor and do heart valve replacement surgery!) Make sure the area the new pad will adhere to is cleaned gently with the cotton swab damp with alcohol and that it has dried. I ended up using almost every pad in the kit.As I remounted the board in the case I figured out I might have to reopen it to fix ones that might be pressed down or just not work. AMAZINGLY when all back together the remote worked like when it was brand new! And the different sized buttons and shapes on the sheet worked perfectly, fitting one at a time, for the Kenwood remote. Every time I use the remote, and that is multiple times a day, I am so pleased my heart surgery project was such a success!Live Long and Prosper!