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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: egotrippin on Sat, 02 February 2013, 01:27:11
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Forgive me if this is the wrong place to post this. I just started swapping keys on a poker and I think my clumsy ham hocks already broke something. I'm probably freaking out over something easy to fix but I'm not sure how. :confused:
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1366592/2013-02-02%2001.19.41.jpg)
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1366592/2013-02-02%2001.04.48.jpg)
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1366592/2013-02-02%2001.03.34.jpg)
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1366592/2013-02-02%2001.03.26.jpg)
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Just clip the wire back into the slot.
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Just clip the wire back into the slot.
I've been fumbling with it but I feel like a fat kid trying to push a square peg through a round hole. I didn't know if there was a trick of some sort - I'll keep poking and prodding...
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Just take something with a thin enough blunt end and push it down into the slot at an angle from the front.
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It kinda looks like the clip that stabilizer snaps into is broken. To help, however, you should be able to grip the stabilizer stem with a pair of pliers and line all your holes back up and be ok. Or do like I did and remove it since that's just a 1.75x key
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Thank you for the suggestions and thank you for tolerating what is probably a ridiculous question (I feared ridicule). I couldn't figure out if it was broken or what because it wouldn't go in on the left side. After fiddling with it I noticed the two sides were at different heights. The side (stabilizers?) of the switch have two different heights depending on where you put the metal clip. I pulled the clip out entirely, leveled the two sides to match the height of another switch, and put it back in. Ta-Da!
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You should get some fancy klaxon keys for that new board. Be the third person in DFW to get them. Hurry though, technically, I closed orders already.
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Thank you for the suggestions and thank you for tolerating what is probably a ridiculous question (I feared ridicule). I couldn't figure out if it was broken or what because it wouldn't go in on the left side. After fiddling with it I noticed the two sides were at different heights. The side (stabilizers?) of the switch have two different heights depending on where you put the metal clip. I pulled the clip out entirely, leveled the two sides to match the height of another switch, and put it back in. Ta-Da!
You probably were sticking the wire into the upper blind hole on the cruciformed part.
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its supposed to look like this. right under the tabs.
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8501/8293801036_5ab8fd16e2_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/89364707@N02/8293801036/)
1 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/89364707@N02/8293801036/) by lark132 (http://www.flickr.com/people/89364707@N02/), on Flickr
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hahahahaha.. how did this happen? ;D