I 100% agree with you. In this instance, those keyboards can go for a fair chunk of change, for some reason. We will say 50 bucks conservatively and without looking up the actual price. If I am paid 34 to 36 per hour that means I would have only cost the employer about 17 to 18 bucks instead of purchasing the 50 dollar keyboard. We cant forget the cost savings on my own sanity by repairing something satisfactorily instead of placing an order for something that is produced in a certain foreign factory that has been shut down for months by the regime because someone got covid there. Forget the supply chain, labour, and import issues, this 50 dollar keyboard is going to take 3 weeks to show up and that's 3 weeks of Carol in HR moaning to me about how long its taking and how much it sucks to type on a screen like every other poor schlub without an IT budget to abuse. By my count I saved the company money, I actually earned my paycheck (for about 30 minutes), and I only had to listen about Carol's upcoming bunyan surgery for 5 minutes when I dropped off her perfectly functioning, albeit MacGyvered, ipad case and keyboard.

Thats why I offer up my own time, its worth nothing.

Edit: People it was a joke... My time is obviously worth something, I collect the paycheck for that time every month.

I work in IT and my coworkers are always jumping to the real nuclear option for stuff like this, which is simply order a new one. I'm just like "no give me a utility knife a bic lighter and 30 minutes of time I'd otherwise be spending on YouTube".

Meanwhile Jamie Hyneman: I did it on tv 18 years ago, what more do you need?