Hello,

So I used to have an Ajazz Ak33 which I gave away a while ago...
I just ordered a new one and remembered that the two different sets of keycaps that Iv'e tried on it did not fit properly (because of the keyboard's aluminum plate which is mounted above the PCB).
Would anyone happen to know which type of keycaps I should be looking for?

Thanks,

It's the keycap sizes which will cause a problem. I'm not aware of any sets which will cover this one.
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I'm actually just looking to replace the letter keycaps...
If I remember correctly the problem I had last time was the height of the keycap's "skirt", it simply required longer travel distance than the board can allow (due to the raised aluminum plate above the actual PCB).

I don't know how the plate could cause a problem. That type of assembly is quite common. Here's a very popular keyboard, the Poker 3, and folks have no problem swapping keycaps on that one.
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You got me thinking, and it might have actually been a different keyboard and not my Ajazz (I did have a similar Chinese one at the time) I was having that problem with... However, it was indeed the problem I've described.
The plate was raised way above the switches and mounting "normal" keycaps was possible but it would not actuate due to the "skirt" hitting the plate and preventing further travel of the raised stem.

You got me thinking, and it might have actually been a different keyboard and not my Ajazz (I did have a similar Chinese one at the time) I was having that problem with... However, it was indeed the problem I've described.
The plate was raised way above the switches and mounting "normal" keycaps was possible but it would not actuate due to the "skirt" hitting the plate and preventing further travel of the raised stem.

I don't know what keyboard you're talking about but that sounds really weird...

Most keyboards have plates, even if they're not a floating key design where the plate doubles as the top housing they're still there.  MX switches (assuming they were MX switches...) are designed to mount into plates in only one position.  If they somehow positioned things so that the plate was above the normal mounting point then the plate wouldn't actually be doing anything because it wouldn't be holding the switches in place.

So either:
1. It was a super-thick plate that extended significantly higher than a normal plate.  But why would anyone do that, especially cheap Chinese keyboard makers since it would increase material costs with no real benefit?
2. They weren't MX switches at all (could still have an MX-compatible mount though).  But even then most switches are designed similarly so I don't know what they would be...
3. You're misremembering something.

Quote from: Row009 on Tue, 22 May 2018, 17:49:58

You got me thinking, and it might have actually been a different keyboard and not my Ajazz (I did have a similar Chinese one at the time) I was having that problem with... However, it was indeed the problem I've described.
The plate was raised way above the switches and mounting "normal" keycaps was possible but it would not actuate due to the "skirt" hitting the plate and preventing further travel of the raised stem.

I don't know what keyboard you're talking about but that sounds really weird...

Most keyboards have plates, even if they're not a floating key design where the plate doubles as the top housing they're still there.  MX switches (assuming they were MX switches...) are designed to mount into plates in only one position.  If they somehow positioned things so that the plate was above the normal mounting point then the plate wouldn't actually be doing anything because it wouldn't be holding the switches in place.

So either:
1. It was a super-thick plate that extended significantly higher than a normal plate.  But why would anyone do that, especially cheap Chinese keyboard makers since it would increase material costs with no real benefit?
2. They weren't MX switches at all (could still have an MX-compatible mount though).  But even then most switches are designed similarly so I don't know what they would be...
3. You're misremembering something.

Unless you had a prototype of the Vortex R4ce with low-profile cherry switches (still unreleased) that still doesn't make sense.

I guess I'll just have to wait until it arrives. By the way, the other keyboard I referred to was a LINGBAO something (although it's obviously an OEM with many generic brands).

I found this topic via Google while I'm looking for full set of keycaps for Ajazz AK33.

Anyways, seems like you said that you're only looking for keycaps for letter. So I created this account to reply your topic. Hope that bump 3 months old topic isn't against the rules here.

I switch my Razer BlackWidow(2012)'s letter keycaps with AK33 and it's seems to fit perfectly (like you can see in the pictures). A bit bigger in width/height and thinner than AK33's button, but still fit. I think you could try the same thing by buy letter keycaps for BlackWidow and replace it on AK33.