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Title: help with steelseries 6gv2
Post by: jd4311 on Fri, 08 February 2013, 11:52:48

I need help finding keys that will replace the oversized enter, is there anywhere that sells just that one blank key cap? or is there a method of replacing it with two keys I can use on wasd keyboards.com?

Title: Re: help with steelseries 6gv2
Post by: L4yercake on Fri, 08 February 2013, 12:55:41

I believe feng has a couple sets and I've seen some on taobao, although they've always been parts of a 104/107 set.

WASD doesn't have anything that fits the funky Enter key or replaces both as the upper stabilizer is proprietary to SS.

Title: Re: help with steelseries 6gv2
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Fri, 08 February 2013, 13:20:10

You can use regular ANSI 2.25 enter and make a dummy 1.5 key above to fill the space. It's probably the easiest way to solve the problem unless you want one of those full matching sets like these (http://www.ebay.com/itm/KBC-Purple-on-Black-PBT-Cherry-MX-Key-Caps-for-7G-6GV2-107-keys-included-/230815336287?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item35bdaa875f). Or if you want a doubleshots set there are some older keyboards like Laser (http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=34524.0) that are compatible if you are up for some hunting.

Title: Re: help with steelseries 6gv2
Post by: jd4311 on Sun, 10 February 2013, 15:40:02

so a regular ansi enter key and then i can just add a dumby blank 1.5 key?

so this for enter? - http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/row-1-size-1x2-25-cherry-mx-keycap.html

I actually just pulled the keys out and it loooks like it would work, but theres a long post that goes into the space above the enter key, if i was to put another key cap in it wouldn't be the right height >< i have no idea why steelseries would make a enter key like this

Title: Re: help with steelseries 6gv2
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Sun, 10 February 2013, 17:04:32

Right, basically it would involve cutting out the normal stem on the 1.5 key and making a similar post type solution to affix it in place. I remember someone did it before, but we lost a lot of pictures and content some months back and I can't seem to find it now.

Title: Re: help with steelseries 6gv2
Post by: jd4311 on Sun, 10 February 2013, 23:18:15

I could probably get it to work but meh, i don't understand why they couldn't just go with the standard design. I like this keyboard but its like a hastle to find the key cap now, and i dislike where the \ key is.

Title: Re: help with steelseries 6gv2
Post by: rootwyrm on Mon, 11 February 2013, 14:43:09

If you contact SteelSeries support, they should be able to get you a new one direct.

Title: Re: help with steelseries 6gv2
Post by: jd4311 on Mon, 11 February 2013, 20:10:48

i want a blank key ideally :(