So I would like to say a big thank you from the bottom of my heart because this saved my keyboard. You are the best and I can't wait to see more stuff from you.
I'd recommend putting a drop or two of super glue on each hotswap socket before inserting the switches. That way the stress is not applied to the solder points but instead reinforced by the glue. Also be careful to avoid getting glue in the holes where the pins from the switch will be plugged in. Especially if you're going to be pulling out your switches every year to clean your keyboard or something like that. Cheers!
You are the goat. I was ready to throw my pcb away, then I followed this and after 45ish minutes of getting the wire soldered juuuust right I got it working. Thank you
I know this is two years late, but the reason why this usually isn't possible is because the soldering pads themselves also come off the pcb so there isn't anything for the solder to stick to.
will it work if you just glue the hotswap socket to where it fell off on the keyboad? because right now i have one that fell off when i was building my keyboard recently and so i taped it back to the pcb and the key works evey now and then but not all of the time and i dont have access to the other materials?
So a friend of mine had me replace the switches in a ducky varmillo board, but it doesn't have hot swap sockets. I somehow managed to ruin both pads on one of the switch sockets despite having worked on soldered boards several times before, if I add a hot swap socket to that switch hole, would this fix work in that case?
Pretty much anything will work. It's easiest to use something pretty fine, like 28awg or similar. I often use wires pulled from inside old USB or LAN cables for repairs like this.
@@Ryieru The insulation is the enamel coating on the wire. You heat it up real hot, like 750F (typically the wire spool has the correct temp listed) to burn off the coating and reveal the copper wire beneath.
The diagnosis would be identical. Rather than soldering to the hotswap, you'd simply be soldering the leads directly to the switch pins. Because the switch is normally held in place by the solder, you'd need to glue it in place.
Hey, can you share your discord, I need to ask some questions about an IC pad (the silver round thing in which the switches fit.. being damaged while desoldering) can we repair them?
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This was perfect! I lifted a pad and couldn't find a good explanation of how to bridge and what to bridge until I found this. Thank you!
So glad to hear you found it helpful!
How do you know if the pads are done? Can't you just solder the socket to the pad?
This saved my DZ60RGB PCB, man. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! Liked and Subbed.
Glad to hear it helped! Thanks!
So I would like to say a big thank you from the bottom of my heart because this saved my keyboard. You are the best and I can't wait to see more stuff from you.
Thanks so much! I really appreciate the feedback. There is definitely more on the way!
had to do this repair today. Thx for the multimeter explaination. This made it very easy.
I'd recommend putting a drop or two of super glue on each hotswap socket before inserting the switches. That way the stress is not applied to the solder points but instead reinforced by the glue. Also be careful to avoid getting glue in the holes where the pins from the switch will be plugged in. Especially if you're going to be pulling out your switches every year to clean your keyboard or something like that. Cheers!
Great suggestions, thanks!
But then you can't replace it if it gets loose
You are the goat. I was ready to throw my pcb away, then I followed this and after 45ish minutes of getting the wire soldered juuuust right I got it working. Thank you
Glad to hear it! Thanks.
thank you so much! i honestly thought my keyboard was toast before i watched this lol
this is great but wish it was zoomed in a bit on the trouble area
can you just solder the pins normally?
Something about the pads being done
I know this is two years late, but the reason why this usually isn't possible is because the soldering pads themselves also come off the pcb so there isn't anything for the solder to stick to.
Thank you man !! U saved my keyboard u deserve a sub
Great to hear! Thanks!
Thanks for the video - I just ripped one off of my Lily58... Will give it a shot!
I hope for someone to upload how to repair a row of Keys auto-typing
cant u just solder in a metal in the torn off place then place the sockets? or it just doesnt work like that?
Super useful, thank you.
A full column of 4 keys stopped working in my rk61. How do i a full column?
do a video on how to remove them sockets
I imagine it'd be easy to just desolder them. Not a bad thing, long as you haven't ripped off the pads.
will it work if you just glue the hotswap socket to where it fell off on the keyboad? because right now i have one that fell off when i was building my keyboard recently and so i taped it back to the pcb and the key works evey now and then but not all of the time and i dont have access to the other materials?
If you're very lucky it could work from just the contact between the broken parts, but in most cases solder will be required.
how do i solder sockets
So I pushed to hard when I was putting switches into my hotswap keyboard and the socket got disconnected can I just use glue
Would this stop a whole column of keys to stop working I popped mine out modding and now the whole column doesn't work
YES! one socket loss = collateral damage! works for non hotswap keyboards too.
Possible to solve the problem of the keyboard 6 buttons not working after the update k580 VATA
Sounds like it's best to be slow and gentle when swapping keys.
So a friend of mine had me replace the switches in a ducky varmillo board, but it doesn't have hot swap sockets. I somehow managed to ruin both pads on one of the switch sockets despite having worked on soldered boards several times before, if I add a hot swap socket to that switch hole, would this fix work in that case?
Assuming you can get it to fit, then yes it could work. Really though you can just solder directly to the switch and get the same result.
hello! what wire can be used to connect the diodes?
Pretty much anything will work. It's easiest to use something pretty fine, like 28awg or similar. I often use wires pulled from inside old USB or LAN cables for repairs like this.
@@sixdeuces6825 Oh I see. thanks for the reply! subbed
I have rk68 and it has ghosting how can I solve it?
Do you need a jumper cable to do this or can you just solder them back together because my hotswap socket completely broke off
If there's metal there to work with you can certainly solder it back in place. Sometimes it's just easier to run jumpers.
@@sixdeuces6825 could I use some enamel copper because I found some and some people used that instead of ribbon cable.
@@Ryieru Yes, definitely. You need high heat to burn off the insulation though. I often use it when handwiring.
@@sixdeuces6825 is the insulation the part of the copper? Where you connect it to other hot swap sockets
@@Ryieru The insulation is the enamel coating on the wire. You heat it up real hot, like 750F (typically the wire spool has the correct temp listed) to burn off the coating and reveal the copper wire beneath.
Would you do the same thing with a non-hotswap pcb? If not what would you do if you lifted a pad on one of those?
The diagnosis would be identical. Rather than soldering to the hotswap, you'd simply be soldering the leads directly to the switch pins. Because the switch is normally held in place by the solder, you'd need to glue it in place.
Hey, can you share your discord, I need to ask some questions about an IC pad (the silver round thing in which the switches fit.. being damaged while desoldering) can we repair them?
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What cables do u use
I use strands of 28AWG ribbon cable, which you can find in 1 meter lengths on my site at: www.diykeyboards.com/parts/product/p10p-rainbow-ribbon-cable
@@diykeyboards2522 can you use 20 AWG or do you need to use 28
@@findponcho Either will work fine.