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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: patrickgeekhack on Sat, 16 January 2010, 21:09:47

Title: Customizer Spring
Post by: patrickgeekhack on Sat, 16 January 2010, 21:09:47

While pulling the keys on my CUstomizer to apply some silicone grease, the spring of the backspace key came off. I'm having a hard time to put it back so that the key will fire. Can anyone point me to how I should proceed to put the spring back?

Title: Customizer Spring
Post by: microsoft windows on Sun, 17 January 2010, 09:19:21

That happened to me once, except it was much worse. The spring came off and then got between the membrane and the black plastic part with all the key barrels. I had to break a few rivets to get it out and got the key to work. The key doesn't sound right anymore though (probably because of the rivet).

Title: Customizer Spring
Post by: patrickgeekhack on Sun, 17 January 2010, 19:05:51

I managed to fix the problem about ten minutes after I posted the thread. That being said, while the grease trick does muffle the noise, I think it also changes the feel for the worse. That is just my opinion though. The very sharp change in resistance is just not there anymore. I will probably pull all the keys and spring and remove all the grease when I have some time. The good thing is that keyboard is not my daily driver.