There's also a risk of getting it sandwiched between the + and the top of the stem when you force a key cap back on.Ĭorsair seriously needs to upgrade their full keyboard lineup to low profile switches and offer low profile PBT key caps to existing owners.Īt the same time, Cherry needs to get up off their backsides and make more low profile color options besides just red and silver. The issue is this ring by design is meant to sit flush with the switch housing when fully pressed, so trying to reseat a key cap without your dampener coming off is tricky. You would have to fit them to the ring on the switch instead of on the key cap stem. The downside to Cherry's low profile switches is that you cannot (easily) use those silicone rings to damped the clack when keys bottom out. Ultimately though, splitting key cap stems are a result of a flawed original Cherry switch design. My best advice if you haven't gone low profile is to use those silicone dampeners since they do grip the stem somewhat and be gentle on your keyboard. The newer low profile switches have a ring surrounding the + so the key cap stem is supported around the outside, where the bulk of the force on the stem can't do any damage. They shouldn't split in general, but I'd say the bigger culprit is the + used by the Cherry switches. In my case, I just plunked down on a set of replacement PBT keycaps. Did you buy the keycaps separately or did they come with your keyboard? But this is only speculation as I do not know what is causing this.Īnd no, I don't have a habit of taking the keycaps off and on again.Ĭorsair should give you a replacement ASAP. I was thinking that while PBT has a significantly stronger grip than ABS that the cracks are causing some of the keycaps to behave this way, since an ABS keycap, cracked the same way, always bounces back into the upright position when pressed off centre. This worked on most of the keys, namely ESC, F1 and F3 while RIGHT CONTROL and PRINT SCREEN remain "unstable". I managed to improve some of the keycaps by heating the stem up with a hairdryer for a minute and then pinching the top end of the stem together. Unstable in the sense that if you pushed them off centre they will lean in the direction you pressed them, extremely irritating and unacceptable especially when it has occured on the least used keys on the board. There is one of these cracks on every corner of every stem, some more faint than others.Īlso, there were 5 keycaps (now 2) that are "unstable". Was switching the PBT Keycaps from my previous board to the Platinum when I noticed that the keycaps have cracks on the stems (see attached photo).
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