SmellyDwarf1
Good Morning,



I'm having a pretty rough start to my morning, my girlfriend's keyboard which is only a few years old got liquid inside of it. Unlike the previous model of the black widow, the one that I have, with recessed key switches, this model has the key switches lifted off of the board. I've looked online for a good chunk last night and this morning. I've tried to reach out to Razor's support, to find a way to fix this but I'm sort of at a loss. It looks like the key switches have release clips on them. However these clips looks like they're below the level of the board. The only way I can see to remove the key switches is to desolder the two points behind the keyswitch on the board. I'm hoping that I'm wrong and I'm just being stupid and missing how to disassemble the key switches to clean and lube them but I really cannot figure it out. I've watched a few videos on tears downs, but the only way I've seen someone remove a keyswitch was with this method.



To be clear, I am not upset because I'm incapable of doing this if that's what it comes down to. I'm upset that spillage on my previous razor products wasn't a big deal and I've never had to return or have any of my first gen Razor products have a cleaning solution that required soldering. I watched the razor cleaning video and that seems to assume that the key switches did not get liquid inside of the plastic housing.



It's not that the electronics on the board or dead, or that the keyswitch is unrepairable, it's that I do not know how to separate the plastic housing, spring, light tunnel, etc.



Please tell me I'm wrong and that I'm just being stupid, I want to believe that such a poorly thought out design was not implemented.



EDIT: So I decided that my guess was probably right. I looked up the Gateron Green switch since it looked familiar with what the razor green switches are. Maybe the connection locations or light tunnel or something small is different but they look mostly the same in terms of structure, composition, and size. The first picture is not mine I pulled it from a Youtube video. The second image is mine however, and this image shows what happens if you attempt to remove the key switch cover before removing the entire keyswitch from the board.



The answer was my fear and my disappointment. I'll fix it, and glue it back together, but that really the edge of the keys being exposed creates a very significant opportunity for spills to get under the keyswitch.



Thank you