Bought a Black Widow Elite keyboard a couple years ago for my dad and I, both came with the orange switches. I had the 2016 version with green switches and liked the clickiness even though my lady despised it. Wasn't crazy about the orange switches from the start but stuck with them because of the deal I got and I didn't want to have to go through the return process. I really dislike these though, feels like the keys drag on something when they are being pressed, very unpleasing to type on compared to other switches and keys. Does anyone here actually like these? According to other threads and comments people were bummed that these got discontinued but can't see why, lol. Is there anything I can do to make this keyboard better? The volume knob had the flicky issue out of the box and I never got around to fixing. From what I understand I can't lube them because they aren't swappable switches and there is no way I'm going to unsolder and resolder each individual switch. Should I just throw it out the window?
+1Orange switches (2nd gen) are available both as a spare parts and in keyboards like BlackWidow V4 Pro: https://www.razer.com/gaming-keyboards/razer-blackwidow-v4-pro/RZ03-04683500-R3M1 or smaller hot-swappable version: https://www.razer.com/gaming-keyboards/razer-blackwidow-v4-75 - all keys are already factory pre-lubed, so you don’t have to do this :)
Btw. for lubing you don’t have to desolder keys, just pull all the keycaps, press each stem to have some small space so you can apply some lube inside. It’ll be not so effective as desoldering and removing the top housing but it’ll still do the job.
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