One of my blue keys dosen't click

[Wulfre]

I am not sure if the switch is just dirty or if it is broken, but the "I" key on my blue switched keyboard doesn't sound nearly as satisfying as the rest. It almost feels like a red or a really worn out brown.

[CPTBadAss]

You could try desoldering it and cleaning it with isopropyl alcohol. Remove it from the keyboard, open it up, clean it all down with alcohol, reassemble switch and solder back onto the keyboard.

If it doesn't work, replace the switch completely.

If you're not comfortable with doing soldering work, look up some people who are in that business.

[ctm]

QFR? I had exactly the same issue. What I did is desolder that switch and replace it with a new one.

[BrewCaps]

Blow air in it.

[Wulfre]

QFR? I had exactly the same issue. What I did is desolder that switch and replace it with a new one.

Yeah it was the QFR. The thing is, I only bought it a week ago.

[rowdy]

I have a couple of muted MX blue switches in one of my Duckys.

I totally spammed the switch - it was the up arrow IIRC - pressing it thousands of times.

Eventually the click improved and now it pretty much sounds like all the other switches.  Except X.

[falkentyne]

Yeah the Q key (MX Green) was muted (and mushy if you pressed it on the right side, and didn't click at all except pressing on the left side) on one of my two shine 69 fire editions.  Mashing it thousands of times in league of legends fixed it right up so now it sounds just like any other switch and clicks fine regardless of where on the key I press it.  It gets muted (but still clicks) but not mushy, if I actively 'tilt' it to the right while pressing (an unnatural force) but if I just press the right side of it, even fully in the valley between Q and W, it feels just like every other key.   So yeah sometimes these switches just need to be broken in

[KHAANNN]

It's not sane to make the switch click and just hope it clicks, I ended up pulling a switch from the plate+pcb by trying to make it click once, not sane

Any external modification make things worse, like lubing etc, when you lube a clicky switch, it never clicks

Some keys probably have warped plastics, therefore they don't click on direct forces, but rather click when you press them sideways (the click is from the separation of the two stem parts, they either like each other so much, or one of them is defective, it might even be the result of the warping of one of the terminals before soldering, most of them have warped terminals, they correct them before soldering)

Long story short, the sanest solution: get 50 blues, replace the switches that you don't like

(This will happen on all keyboards, if you're looking for it / very sensitive)

[KHAANNN]

i) You can also remove the switch
ii) Open the switch
iii) Nudge the metal part towards the stem
iv) Close the switch

But this might make the switch click much stronger instead
So the sanest solution is, once again, replacing the switch