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dku5h t1_ix5jt08 wrote

Are you pulling these off with a proper keycap puller like the metal wire one? All of these look like you're pulling them off at an angle. Like how are all the caps broken on one side only if even force is applied while pulling them off? Just curious.

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ThatChapThere OP t1_ix5mngi wrote

Yeah, normal keycap puller. Maybe I could have been more gentle I suppose, but everything points to it being an issue with the keycaps. Two broke during keypress, one during keycap removal, and one just happened to be broken when I next looked at the board.

It's not odd imo that they're broken on one side. Objects break at their weakest point first, that's just physics.

Honestly I'd love this to be my fault so that I can guarantee it never happens again, but it's hard to scientifically test how much difference it would make to more carefully add and remove keycaps when 94% are fine regardless and they feel and sound like the cheapest softest ABS there is.

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dku5h t1_ix5o4hh wrote

I understand what you're saying, very interesting how these break on keypresses.

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ThatChapThere OP t1_ix5ogw2 wrote

Yeah, obviously I'm gonna be extra careful with caps in future just in case, but I suspect it's a QC issue.

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Sour-d-elegance t1_ix5xo1k wrote

Yea I've never had this problem and I have 20+ sets of doubleshot clones

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