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Title: How to reattach the enter key on a Razer Black Widow?
Post by: DroopySWE on Tue, 25 January 2011, 22:57:04

Hi, guys. The enter button on my Razer Black Widow (Cherry MX Blue) stopped working properly, so I detached the enter button to fix the problem. Little did I know there's a metal pin with two plastic pieces that attach to the metal pin under the enter button. I can't seem to attach it properly now (I don't have any tools for it).

Any recomendations on how to fix this?

Title: How to reattach the enter key on a Razer Black Widow?
Post by: Lethal Squirrel on Wed, 26 January 2011, 09:03:31

i had to take the shift key off. its a little harder to put the keys with stabilizers back on the black widow than it is with my other mechanical keyboards.

Title: How to reattach the enter key on a Razer Black Widow?
Post by: Moogle Stiltzkin on Wed, 26 January 2011, 09:19:07

Quote from: DroopySWE;284891

Hi, guys. The enter button on my Razer Black Widow (Cherry MX Blue) stopped working properly, so I detached the enter button to fix the problem. Little did I know there's a metal pin with two plastic pieces that attach to the metal pin under the enter button. I can't seem to attach it properly now (I don't have any tools for it).

Any recomendations on how to fix this?

Do you see why now i keep endorsing the cherry keyboard stabilizers.


Prone to accidents if not careful
(http://sandy55.fc2web.com/keyboard/chicony/chicony_stb1.jpg)

(http://sandy55.fc2web.com/keyboard/chicony/chicony_stb2.jpg)

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5161/5321981874_0fd4bf8bd9_z.jpg)




Cherry keyboard stabilizers (also in use on Ducky/leopold/archiss clone keyboards)
(http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb40/Zetc/Ducky.jpg)

(http://qq.a.5d6d.com/userdirs/c/4/kbc/attachments/month_0911/091110202555a25722983af0d1.jpg)

Title: How to reattach the enter key on a Razer Black Widow?
Post by: Moogle Stiltzkin on Wed, 26 January 2011, 09:54:56

i think it was one of rippys pics, but even with the cherry stabilizer don't just pull straight out or you can break the switch :x

use slow gradual force.

Title: How to reattach the enter key on a Razer Black Widow?
Post by: 7bit on Wed, 26 January 2011, 10:06:47

Quote from: ripster;285128

As long as the Cherry Corpy style stabilizer bar doesn't come loose.  At that point you have to desolder all the switches on a plate mounted keyboard to fix it.

If nothing is brocken, it usually snaps in again. Even if it doesn't snap in anymore, the stabilizer mounts are not soldered.

(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=13657&stc=1&d=1290718257)

If something breaks, just rip out those 2 stabilizer mounts and swap them!

Title: How to reattach the enter key on a Razer Black Widow?
Post by: 7bit on Wed, 26 January 2011, 10:34:51

Quote from: ripster;285145

Try that on a plate mounted switch keyboard like the Leopold, the Ducky, or the SteelSeries.  The wire is underneath the plate.

Pics are in my Cherry MX Removal Guide.  And since there were two cases this week I have a feeling it's not unheard of for the wire to pop out of the stabilizer.

Sorry!

I did not think about plate mounted ones. I got a keyboard some days ago, where one stabilzer-mount was off. It snapped back into the PCB very easily, so I could snap the stabilizer in as well.