What a concept!
First let me begin with a moment of silence to all the electronic toys I have dismantled with intention of correcting some (unusally minor) defect only to snap a tiny piece of molded plastic necessary for reassembly. Of course, once you snap it, you know how to get it apart without snapping it, but then it is too late. May you rest in pieces.
Often, I attempt the super-glue repair, but its never quite enough skrumph. ...if only I owned a plastic injection moulding machine, I could fashion a wood model of a brace and then create a cast from the mold and then, oh then, I'd be back in buisiness.
Friendly Plastic is really all I need. I could have saved many injured machines from the landfill doom had I owned a little hunk of moldable plastic. Of course, that's assuming I can adhesive the new to the old...
Much of this is the "Rog" in me. (Roger is my pop). You can't throw it away if it can be fixed, even if you don't know how or where to fix it or don't have time to fix it. We had two of those huge old wooden console TV's in our basement growing up. Neither worked. They might still be there. There is a billiard table with no rubber bumbers (the ball doesn't rebound from the banks) and there were as many as nine cars in our yard at one time (four of them were mine). Now, finally, all that training will pay off!
Recently, I have tackled a few projects which had been previously outside my area of comfort or knowledge. One was indeed my wireless keyboard. My brother paid me the favor of dumping a coke skraight down the middle of it the week I got it. Two years ago. I got it dried out but, over time, dust settled in on the sticky and eventually the buttons would not return to the up position “without tapping it lightly against a hard surface a few times” (we know that means slamming it repeatedly, screaming obsceneties). So I dismantled it, finding it to be both simple and brilliant. There were probably fifty screws in my jar by the time I got to the meat of it but I didn't break anything and now its sparking clean and wrks perfectly. I also build a bench/toy box over the holiday. Brad guns, routers, circular saws... fun! I clear-coated it with automotive enamel. Not standard but super durable and... eyeing that old decrepid Porche in my father-in-law's yard with a new ferver.
The point is: when something seems to hard to be done or likely to end in failure, assess the cost of doing it anyway. If the cost is only time, ie: it's already broken, dive in. Go ahead and break it more. You'll likely gain little bits of knowledge with each disaster, until, one day, someone mentions friendly plastic and the clouds blow away.