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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: a.justin.wong on Mon, 05 January 2015, 00:28:05
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Just picked up my Shine 3 on Fri, I really love the lighting and keyboard in general, but have some issues with the keycaps on my particular unit.
First, almost every key on the first 2 rows, plus the NUN 7 and Left windows key has a small scraped spot on the back side, deep enough top let light through
The F5, T, ] key has a small spot on the right edge that is letting light through........ I thought it was dust at first
The F5, F8, F9 and home key looks like it is missing a layer of paint
and the Right Shift key a small black spot on the translucent part of the key.
So was I just unlucky or anyone else had this issue with their Shine 3? NCIX is pretty good with this stuff and the guy at the store told me to call the head office tomorrow to have a replacement sent in since they have no more in stock, but I'm just worried that the new once will be the same.
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Im leaning towards bad luck, though it shouldnt have been too hard for them to notice leaking light through quality control. My DS3 keycaps were fine when I got it. TBH, ducky shine stock keycaps are not the best, if anything they are most likely to be the first part of the keyboard to be changed by the owner.
Good luck with your replacement :thumb:
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Sprue marks.
Normal.
All of my Ducky Shine keycaps have those.
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=36151.0
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=44808.0
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Sprue marks.
Normal.
All of my Ducky Shine keycaps have those.
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=36151.0
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=44808.0
Man not sure If I'm happy or not to hear that this is normal. Guess I'll ask NCIX to just send me a new Shift key and replace all those that have a problem on the top side........ I really wouldn't have noticed the sprue marks on the back if I was not re-routing the usb cable....
Thanks again ROWDY
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I dont think ncix stocks spare caps to give out as rma, they'd probably ask you to contact ducky themselves. the only thing that might go wrong is that they say the sprue marks are normal for all the caps.
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Small problems like that with keycaps, not really fair to NCIX to return. They're too common.
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Yea... seems like just typical imperfections you see from plastic moldings. Even my 100$ set of Topre PBT caps, which are considered by many as one of the best keycaps available, have little left-over nubs behind the keycaps.