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Title: remove shift key
Post by: sinani206 on Mon, 16 May 2011, 21:28:51

i have a razer blackwidow
is it safe to just pull of the large keys like all of the others?
which direction should i pull in to not break the stabilizer?

hooray for lazy grammar

Title: remove shift key
Post by: sinani206 on Mon, 16 May 2011, 21:41:55

wait, so do the shift, enter, and bspace keys have stabilizers?

Title: remove shift key
Post by: sinani206 on Mon, 16 May 2011, 21:47:21

oh i see i have to use tweezers to remove the stabilizers from the hinges first.

Title: remove shift key
Post by: Rockferd on Mon, 16 May 2011, 21:53:57

Did you remove the front faceplate first? If so, how? I'd like to do some looking around myself, but can't seem to figure out how to get that off.

Title: remove shift key
Post by: sinani206 on Mon, 16 May 2011, 22:03:13

ok that was exhausting taking all 4 of those off and putting them back on.
i dont even want to try the spacebar...
the rshift key seems like the keycap itself is okay and the switch is soft.
whatever.

Title: remove shift key
Post by: sinani206 on Mon, 16 May 2011, 22:03:45

no i didnt take the faceplate off

Title: remove shift key
Post by: Rockferd on Tue, 17 May 2011, 00:40:56

Quote from: ripster;347292

Here's a Cherry MX key pulling guide. (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:12649)

Please take a pic of the Enter key stabilizer and the Spacebar one.

Since I have two here, I figured I'd take a try at this. Here's the spacebar
(http://i.imgur.com/fPK4w.jpg)

I'm still working on Shift/Enter/Backspace.

Title: remove shift key
Post by: Rockferd on Tue, 17 May 2011, 00:51:58

Yea, shift looks exactly like that as well.  I guess the way razer shaped the metal, the key cap hits is, so it leads the key to feel "stiff" or mushy? Just a theory, since I'm now 2/2 keyboards with the same issue.

EDIT: For the sake of it, here's the entire right side exposed (This is easy to get the hang of :))
(http://i.imgur.com/8E8rY.jpg)

Title: remove shift key
Post by: bpiphany on Tue, 17 May 2011, 02:41:42

I usually just pull my filco keys straight off (some caution involved of course). The white extra stems usually just slips out and stays on the stabilizer bar. Putting the extra stems in the correct position it is also easy just pushing the keys back on.

Title: remove shift key
Post by: domin8r on Tue, 17 May 2011, 03:00:39

My Laser keyboard had 2 stabilizers on the (big) enter.. 1 horizontal and 1 vertical. Holy crap, that was a challenge to get back on!