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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: cromartie on Sun, 01 May 2011, 12:01:26

Title: keys not seating properly?
Post by: cromartie on Sun, 01 May 2011, 12:01:26

Hi guys,

So I got my first mechanical keyboard a little while back and everything has been good so far. But the other day I decided to try to take a few keys off out of curiosity. When I tried to put them back on, I noticed it sat higher than the neighboring keys.

Is there some special way to get the keys to go all way down on the switch stem? What am i doing wrong? I've only taken out the arrow keys so far, so it's not a big deal for me, but now i'm worried about taking off any of the main keys =/

Thanks guys. Awesome forum.

Title: keys not seating properly?
Post by: kaiserreich on Sun, 01 May 2011, 13:06:32

Press harder till you feel that it has fixed into place

Title: keys not seating properly?
Post by: DeltaGunner on Sun, 01 May 2011, 13:08:07

Welcome on GH,
You can press them in quite hard, be sure to wiggle them.
That should work

Title: keys not seating properly?
Post by: cromartie on Sun, 01 May 2011, 14:28:54

Thanks for the advice. After pushing with more force, it seems to have gone in a bit more. not quite all the way, but close enough. I guess I was just being too gentle at first do to this being my first time (with a mech keyboard). :$

Cheers =)