Originally Posted by
armygreywolf
That thar be gold you're lookin' at. (Yep it's gold.)
A little lesson on why it's gold. Unlike the other available highly conductive materials, (copper, aluminum, silver and a few others) gold is does not oxidize therefore it's perfect for this type of keyboard (they call it soft touch keys) Every soft touch keyboard, phone, calculator, device will have a gold flashed board that is keyboards without mylars...Although it's not going to be valuable like a cell phone board or finger card....still a buck or so a pound.
Not every one will be gold plated.
I repair business phones and some are like this but others will have a black [carbon?] coating. The same model phone can have ether type. Some old Comdial phones have a keyboard that does not have any green coating on the tracings and all the tracings are gold plated, front and back. The tracings are thin and the gold plating is not very thick so in reality there is not as much gold as it appears.
Chris
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