My first mechanical keyboard failure; the socket on my Matias Tactile mini has fallen off:
I'd only used the keyboard a handful of times, and it's only a few months old, which leads me to suspect it's just a bad soldering job rather than a fault with the design, although the socket doesn't seem to have any protection against mechanical stress. For some reason my phone camera makes it look like the housing and pads are rusty; they're not.
Anyway, my question is, does anyone have any ideas how this can be fixed? The solder pads on the board itself look too small to solder with a standard soldering iron, which seems to put out permanently wiring in a USB cord. I can't really see how I can reattach the socket as the pads sit underneath it, which mystifies me how they were put on in the first place. It could be they're just pressure connected and it's the two pins on either side that hold the socket down, in which case I guess I could try sourcing another one of these sockets and try soldering it at those two points, but again it does seem a bit of a weakness if the entire socket is only held on by those two small pieces of metal. Would this work?
If Mr Matias reads this, if the above doesn't work, do you have supplies of these little boards for purchase, if possible? I miss the clicky goodness of the Tactile mini.
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