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this is my keyboard there are many like it but this one specifically is mine I

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love this keyboard I've customized the key caps I have specific ones that I

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like in specific areas it's signed by people on the back including Day N husky

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guys from Team Liquid day n's mom which

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is probably the favorite signature that I've ever gotten on anything um it has

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custom PBT key caps which I love in ninja printing which is my favorite it's

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click is perfect perfect there's a

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little bit of inconsistency between Cherry switches and I love this

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generation of cherry switches the Clack is great the Plastics and the structure

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and the keyboard is awesome this is a DK 908 G2 it's a little old and it's

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technically broken and I really want it back so let's fix it

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Intel brings ddr4 to the mainstream with their new core i76700 K and core i5

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6600k processors check out the link in the video description to learn more so I

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love my keyboard and for many reasons I think it's just spiffy but to see if

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it's worth really fixing and not just sentimental reasons I'm going to take it

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around see what people think about typing on it okay John try typing on the

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keyboard let me know what you think they travel really easily but they

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make a lot of noise oh this is

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I like the cing feeling but they are too tight I like it cuz it's like feel like

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you're breaking little glass things yeah I only type with two fingers

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whatever is it going to do something to me no it's not I am not sure what you

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are talking about seems fine okay so far

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people aren't quite as enthralled with it as I am

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I like it I like it I like it a lot Nick

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try typ me on my keyboard let me know what you

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think okay so people aren't quite as

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enthralled with it as I am except for maybe Colton but I'm going to try to fix

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it anyways now I have a few broken keyboards having a broken keyboard is

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not odd for me this one unfortunately however had its USB receiver cuz it's a

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USB detachable keyboard fall inside of

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the casing now I haven't actually taken it apart yet so I don't know if it's as

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simple as some hot glue or if I'm going to have to resolder the connection on

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the inside or if I'm going to have to take like a USB extension and chop it

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and solder the wires in I have no

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idea let's go so first things first I'm

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just going to try to take apart the keyboard I've taken three three screws

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out and that's all I can see in terms of screws now from there on it's probably

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prying the plastic so yeah that looks about right uh you

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can find every once in a while there I just hit one there's Clips so there are

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clips and I do need to get those off and then get a card down in

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there that can hold it open I'm going to

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try to find the next one

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here we go it's holding on on the sides but I

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don't see any Clips

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there ah there we go there's one more

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then does that mean there's one more on this side

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yep okay now the top is off the bottom

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must have additional Clips as

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well not completely bare as you can see but that top bezel is off and that did

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reveal more screws so we can keep on

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working okay I think I have the oh as

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you can see this is now in two

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parts so that tray is disgusting I will clean that out okay

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here's the back of the keyboard and here is the culprit and it

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actually looks like it straight up broke these two plastic things right here are

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anchors that are supposed to be scre screwed on and holding it on and they

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actually broke right off of the plastic on the inside so I'm not sure what

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happened to the keyboard as I expected hot glue might actually be able to save

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it so I'm going to clean this disgusting thing out and maybe do some other

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cleaning around the board and then we're going to move on now that we're done

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cleaning these things a good idea would be to do some maintenance on your key

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caps in terms of cleaning it and cleaning the board and doing all that kind of stuff if you want to check out

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maintenance and lubing techniques click up here for a previous video that we've

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done it's called the ultimate mechanical keyboard key cap guide and there's a

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table of contents thing you can jump to maintenance or lubing now would be a

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good time to check that out but I'm going to move on and start trying to fix

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things so the problem isn't that the hot glue cracked and broke off the problem

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isn't that the solder contacts broke the problem is that the plastic bits in here

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actually snapped right off in the mount gave way there were two screws

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going through it so I'm just going to

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move where those are oh so there's big screw holes here

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and here not in all four corners even though there's these two stands nothing

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screws into them this is probably a standard backboard for more than just

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this keyboards and I think we're back to the hot glue method um I could do this

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with other types of adhesives but hot glue is easy to take back off so if this

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happens to not work I won't cause any permanent damage anything it's going to

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be fine I'm going to put a little dab

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right over top of where it was supposed to be screwed in I'm also going to put

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some along this line here which should

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in theory help keep it against the

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plastic and have it not fall back in

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okay so it actually seems to be somewhat okay I can try to oh I'm

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bleeding um that's probably fine

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everything's okay um anyways we can try

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to pull it up a little bit nothing really seems to happen and yeah seems

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pretty solid so I'm going to try to make sure that I've lined it up properly I'm

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just going to try to plug this Cable in

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it seems to be fine plug the connection in PCB didn't move at

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all I think we're good to go I'm going to plug this into the PCB and try to

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type something on it before putting it all back together properly if it works

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we're good to go I'll close up the case success if

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not we'll have to figure something

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out why did my screen go black what the

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hell does that make any sense to you no

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it doesn't

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oh I think there's some problems keyboard tester.com

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oh my

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goodness I think it works there's some weird things going

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on okay the weird things that were going on are no longer going on there was some

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crazy lag when I first typed it in or plugged it in after the driver was

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installed so I'm not sure what that was about but it does seem to work that's

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really exciting this keyboard got me through all of my postsecondary

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education um and was there for the

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almost the entire time that I had my mineral rig and all that kind of stuff

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so I'm really happy to have it

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back okay let's put it back

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together this is going to be so annoying I have to pry all four Clips up and then

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flip them over because they're stuck on a Ledge come

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on okay so after more effort that I would like to admit and Brandon's help

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we finally got the bezel thing on the trick was there was a guide rail on the

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inside so you had to slot it within the confines of the guide rail time to put

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the last final three screws inside one

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little Easter egg that I noticed you can see just barely the voided warranty

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sticker that I pounded right through in order to get that screw off uh nice

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little tidbit I like voting warranties it's

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fun okay so it works due to the hot glue

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it kind of turned into more of a like home arts and crafts project than a

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hardcore soldering job that I thought it was going to be oh well I'm happy my

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keyboard Works hopefully you guys found that interesting moral of the story even

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if this wasn't all that complicated is if your stuff breaks and your far

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outside of your warranty like I was with this just fix it if you can it might not

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be that complicated as we saw today not that bad at all the thing just came

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loose and fell backwards take your stuff apart check it out if you can't fix it

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you gained experience from taking it apart if you try to fix it and you fail

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well it was broken anyways yeah simple

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