this is my keyboard there are many like it but this one specifically is mine I
love this keyboard I've customized the key caps I have specific ones that I
like in specific areas it's signed by people on the back including Day N husky
guys from Team Liquid day n's mom which
is probably the favorite signature that I've ever gotten on anything um it has
custom PBT key caps which I love in ninja printing which is my favorite it's
click is perfect perfect there's a
little bit of inconsistency between Cherry switches and I love this
generation of cherry switches the Clack is great the Plastics and the structure
and the keyboard is awesome this is a DK 908 G2 it's a little old and it's
technically broken and I really want it back so let's fix it
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love my keyboard and for many reasons I think it's just spiffy but to see if
it's worth really fixing and not just sentimental reasons I'm going to take it
around see what people think about typing on it okay John try typing on the
keyboard let me know what you think they travel really easily but they
make a lot of noise oh this is
I like the cing feeling but they are too tight I like it cuz it's like feel like
you're breaking little glass things yeah I only type with two fingers
whatever is it going to do something to me no it's not I am not sure what you
are talking about seems fine okay so far
people aren't quite as enthralled with it as I am
I like it I like it I like it a lot Nick
try typ me on my keyboard let me know what you
think okay so people aren't quite as
enthralled with it as I am except for maybe Colton but I'm going to try to fix
it anyways now I have a few broken keyboards having a broken keyboard is
not odd for me this one unfortunately however had its USB receiver cuz it's a
USB detachable keyboard fall inside of
the casing now I haven't actually taken it apart yet so I don't know if it's as
simple as some hot glue or if I'm going to have to resolder the connection on
the inside or if I'm going to have to take like a USB extension and chop it
and solder the wires in I have no
idea let's go so first things first I'm
just going to try to take apart the keyboard I've taken three three screws
out and that's all I can see in terms of screws now from there on it's probably
prying the plastic so yeah that looks about right uh you
can find every once in a while there I just hit one there's Clips so there are
clips and I do need to get those off and then get a card down in
there that can hold it open I'm going to
try to find the next one
here we go it's holding on on the sides but I
don't see any Clips
there ah there we go there's one more
then does that mean there's one more on this side
yep okay now the top is off the bottom
must have additional Clips as
well not completely bare as you can see but that top bezel is off and that did
reveal more screws so we can keep on
working okay I think I have the oh as
you can see this is now in two
parts so that tray is disgusting I will clean that out okay
here's the back of the keyboard and here is the culprit and it
actually looks like it straight up broke these two plastic things right here are
anchors that are supposed to be scre screwed on and holding it on and they
actually broke right off of the plastic on the inside so I'm not sure what
happened to the keyboard as I expected hot glue might actually be able to save
it so I'm going to clean this disgusting thing out and maybe do some other
cleaning around the board and then we're going to move on now that we're done
cleaning these things a good idea would be to do some maintenance on your key
caps in terms of cleaning it and cleaning the board and doing all that kind of stuff if you want to check out
maintenance and lubing techniques click up here for a previous video that we've
done it's called the ultimate mechanical keyboard key cap guide and there's a
table of contents thing you can jump to maintenance or lubing now would be a
good time to check that out but I'm going to move on and start trying to fix
things so the problem isn't that the hot glue cracked and broke off the problem
isn't that the solder contacts broke the problem is that the plastic bits in here
actually snapped right off in the mount gave way there were two screws
going through it so I'm just going to
move where those are oh so there's big screw holes here
and here not in all four corners even though there's these two stands nothing
screws into them this is probably a standard backboard for more than just
this keyboards and I think we're back to the hot glue method um I could do this
with other types of adhesives but hot glue is easy to take back off so if this
happens to not work I won't cause any permanent damage anything it's going to
be fine I'm going to put a little dab
right over top of where it was supposed to be screwed in I'm also going to put
some along this line here which should
in theory help keep it against the
plastic and have it not fall back in
okay so it actually seems to be somewhat okay I can try to oh I'm
bleeding um that's probably fine
everything's okay um anyways we can try
to pull it up a little bit nothing really seems to happen and yeah seems
pretty solid so I'm going to try to make sure that I've lined it up properly I'm
just going to try to plug this Cable in
it seems to be fine plug the connection in PCB didn't move at
all I think we're good to go I'm going to plug this into the PCB and try to
type something on it before putting it all back together properly if it works
we're good to go I'll close up the case success if
not we'll have to figure something
out why did my screen go black what the
hell does that make any sense to you no
it doesn't
oh I think there's some problems keyboard tester.com
oh my
goodness I think it works there's some weird things going
on okay the weird things that were going on are no longer going on there was some
crazy lag when I first typed it in or plugged it in after the driver was
installed so I'm not sure what that was about but it does seem to work that's
really exciting this keyboard got me through all of my postsecondary
education um and was there for the
almost the entire time that I had my mineral rig and all that kind of stuff
so I'm really happy to have it
back okay let's put it back
together this is going to be so annoying I have to pry all four Clips up and then
flip them over because they're stuck on a Ledge come
on okay so after more effort that I would like to admit and Brandon's help
we finally got the bezel thing on the trick was there was a guide rail on the
inside so you had to slot it within the confines of the guide rail time to put
the last final three screws inside one
little Easter egg that I noticed you can see just barely the voided warranty
sticker that I pounded right through in order to get that screw off uh nice
little tidbit I like voting warranties it's
fun okay so it works due to the hot glue
it kind of turned into more of a like home arts and crafts project than a
hardcore soldering job that I thought it was going to be oh well I'm happy my
keyboard Works hopefully you guys found that interesting moral of the story even
if this wasn't all that complicated is if your stuff breaks and your far
outside of your warranty like I was with this just fix it if you can it might not
be that complicated as we saw today not that bad at all the thing just came
loose and fell backwards take your stuff apart check it out if you can't fix it
you gained experience from taking it apart if you try to fix it and you fail
well it was broken anyways yeah simple
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