Funny donor keys, but I think it is its own donor key, I mean, who uses this key?
I could try and get a pic from my cell phone, if anyone wants one PM me an email. Not sure how to host pics online, never got into image shacks and such. Though i do know how to upload to my Facebook. And Email it.
Really though, its like this. The brown stem is broke diaganally, and as if someone sliced off its head, the plus sign bit of it. at the lower end of the diagonal break, it is just flush with the base of the brown switch part. it rises half way up. A clean break. The other brown bit is still very much in the keycap. I could fix with a dab of supergule if the glue will hold. While I could not type on it really, it would hold it in place perhaps. I don't use the print screen button anyway. Its just the thought of my plus one hundred dollar keyboard being tarnished that bothers me, so not my first choice anyway.
looking at the keyswitch, there seems to be no way to open it up to just replace the stem. Where would I get just the stem anyway. So I would need to find a Cherry Brown Keyswitch and sodder it on. Don't even know if you can buy em. I will not desodder all of them just for one keyswitch I never depress, that ain't happening, so tell me your all joking on that one.
My dad could help me sodder it, so the real question becomes can I really find a keyswitch in Cherry Brown. I would buy a Cherry Brown switch if it did not run more than 10 dollars.
Thanks for the offer for the free keyswitch there, I will PM you. I guess that would be the way to go. It will keep it on my board at least. I never use the damn thing. I just don't want a big hole in my Keyboard.
What does the Print Screen Button do anyway? I never printed by it, so I guess I don't need it. Plus I dont even own a printer, no plans to really. Come to think of it, I never use any on that row. The pause button and the scroll lock. I never use em. Not even sure what they do. We could stand to lose those windows buttons too.
And thanks for all the help everyone! I was going to email elite keyboards, but I was like you know what, these guys here are faster and better at this stuff. You guys are invaluable.
BTW, the Browns are ok in the long run. I find typing lying down in bed not the best choice for the light keyswitch. lazy hand mode makes too many feather light typos. Better to go with blacks for that. But when I get going on a typing a story or whatever, it is very nice to have the light keyswitch. I still bottom out half the time, I think I have adapted a bit. It use to be all the time. Also, I still want to try the blues, but there have been times when I was like typing and my roomate was sleeping, and I was gratefull for the quiet of the browns. Still the best all arounder really. Browns are nice. Course that's just a theory, I have yet to try others. But I can imagine.
