Fixing my Wife’s $150 Keyboard for $1
Fixing my Wife’s $150 Keyboard for $1
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Repairing your old hardware isn’t as hard as you may think – with some basic electronics tools and a bit of patience you can keep your gear running for years and years. In this video we’re showing you how to replace a faulty keyboard switch in Yvonne’s aging keyboard.
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0:00 Intro
0:52 Harp Linus Revealed
1:34 Frosted Tips Linus
2:11 Then and Now
2:46 Keyboard Tester
4:56 Disassembly
5:12 NSFLungs
7:50 Switch Removal
9:22 Morse Code
9:49 New Switch Install
11:29 Soldering and Re-install
12:58 Big Reveal
Some say to this day that editor is still stuck in the den
When you spend over 500 on a keyboard just for the sound 😅 we too far down the hole bois
SERIAL EATER (noone can stop him)
I looked at the thumbnail and almost thought it is a new detachable half keyboard
No clean flux is not corrosive otherwise it wouldnt be no clean
Love this, but $1 is a massive stretch
Can’t wait for the follow-up vid in 2 weeks, when the space bar key dies…
Your wife is a psychopath… ISO enter and 1u backspace?!
my pc died please help me get one again i beg you
Damn, that was one of my first mechanical keyboards, had a 6g before, basically the same thing
I have the same toque
Dearlord, dont use unleaded solder if you’ve never soldered before. That’s how you melt traces and nuke PCBs.
hi guys pls help, is it worth to pay 320$ to used pc
spec :
cpu i5 7400
rx 560 4gb
ram 8gb
nvme ssd 240gb
hdd 1tb
evga 600w 80+
he said that graphic driver crashing in desktop but not in game.
When I had keys that stopped working, 9 times out of 10 the switch didn’t need to be replaced. It just needed cleaning of the internal contacts. No tools needed but screwdrivers and a pencil eraser. Disassembled, rubbed contact with eraser, reassembled and tested. That tenth time was the switch.
You could always just 3d print her a wrist rest shell with that exact slope for any mechanical keyboard she wants
help me i am trapped on the editing den
"He knows i’m a cereal eater.." Oh that wasn’t at all what i was thinking he meant…. :O
Why not just 3d print one of those extended wrist rests for a newer/standard keyboard?
Held the 3 key on the video, pure music
manscaped would have been a great sponsor for that segway
1 миллион людей посмотрели как перепаять кнопку в старой клавиатуре. И я тоже….
I have that same soldering iron…what tip do you find to be the best for this type of work?
"lead or non-lead… if you want to be environmentally friendly…"
Even though lead is a natural element on the periodic table. 😛
omg i love this video… about a year ago now i had bought some key switches to fix some of the ones that are going bad on my keyboard. didn’t realize that you can’t just pull the switches off per-builts. so i just fuck it and have dealt with it ever since. NOW I CAN ACTUALLY FIX THIS THING thanks you soo much for making this video
dont check my keyboard….
My $20 keyboard lasting 15 years no issues. Your $200 (Canadian) keyboard breaks after 10 🤔
not even lubing the switch, smh
90% isopropyl alchohol. That is what is used in the factory as a wash that wont rust your device. 99% actually but 90 is easier to get at a pharmacy. Just well ventilate and wear gloves.
Louis yelling : give the board heat, it needs more heat lol
Where was this video when I broke my keyboard trying to fix it DX
CM Quickfire M im on your side
make a gamepad but with a keyboard chipset, hence it will be fully modifiable.
9:23 Don’t worry editor. Message received. Help will arrive in the next 8-12 years, depending on covid restrictions.
I like how a 150$ keyboard is not hot swappable but mine 40e redragon is
They E Key died?
Press F to pay respect
why is the backspace backwards?
‘Blacked’
0:56 THANK GOD he didn’t say "Like I get intimate with my wife … X"D
baby Linus looks like the Sherminator
6:25 "cereal eater"
Nice save
2008! Me, oh that was like weeks ago. F*** I’m getting old.
Imagine he would have found a lot of red pubic hairs in the key gaps…..sorry hon your screen has better visuals for adult content
Still daily driving my Logitech g150 for work from 2012. It seems no one no longer makes keyboards with 18 macro keys and three profiles. I use it for AutoCAD macros every single day all day.
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I always buy my keyboards pre-built. Guess I’m a pleb
How to fix Rubberdom ?
I did this with my mouse, been going since 2010. The most shocking part was that the £100 mouse had buttons rated for 5 million clicks even though 50 million click buttons are a few pence more expensive. The most positive way to think about it is the manufacturer cheaped out. The most likely reason is they want their mice to break faster so you buy them more often
I’m not a lawyer, but getting intimate with sponsors MIGHT be a conflict of interest
why not replace T A and O as well? they must be worn too