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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: scytheR on Thu, 11 October 2012, 04:50:14
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Yeah ive only been here a few weeks but i think im going to get a reputation as keyboard breaker or something (probably have). But when i last posted about how i spilt water into my keyboard, it was all fine, but today when i got home from school/work i noticed that when i press my spacebar there's a ping.. not as metallic as one on a mechanical keyboard, but its sortof like blowing air into a bottle.. a higher pitched thud. if that makes any sense..
Did i break my keyboard :[ Can i stop this somehow? Is it cause i spilt some water into my topre? It wasn't that much.. i swear! Also how the heck do i remove a spacebar.
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Hahahahaha... take it apart, and clean it. You'll never use that warranty anyway, ship to japan, 6 weeks, LOL
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I think I know the sound you're describing. It's probably from moisture underneath the rubber dome making it stick to either the spring or pcb. Nothing to worry about, just annoying. If it doesn't go away in a few days, take it apart, lift up the dome for the spacebar, and wipe it down. To give you an idea of what it looks like:
(http://s13.postimage.org/6p38jssxz/DSC00637.jpg)
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Topre spacebars are a little bit more complicated to take off than MX spacebars.
1. Take off the alt keys
2. Push the left side of the spacebar down, use your right index finger to lift up the right side of the spacebar from the bottom until you hear the stabilizer click (means that it's off)
3. Repeat for the left side
4. Use both index fingers and evenly pull both sides up
5. ???
6. Profit! (or maybe not, if that doesn't fix the spacebar)
Good luck! And don't lose the spring underneath the spacebar.