How To Repair Space Bar On Logitech K350 Keyboard
#1 
Posted 02 September 2010 - 01:34 PM
Hey,
I finally got sick of having to look at my dead peel and hairs (amidst other things) inside my keyboard, and so I decided it was time to take it apart. I've got a Logitech G15 V2, and so I googled information technology earlier I merely took it autonomously, because I didn't know how the backlighting worked, or how the LCD brandish continued. I found a guide, and I followed along with it.
So I got it all apart fine, took some time cleaning it all out, and put it back together. It was great, the keys looked brand new, and and made almost the same 'clunk'ing audio as when it was brand now. I tested every unmarried cardinal and they all went downwardly and came support brilliantly - except the spacebar.
I've had some minor bug with the spacebar before, merely nothing too major. Mostly it was when I was playing a game of tetris, hitting the spacebar on the very left side a lot, it would somewhen -kind of- get stuck down, and i'd have to press it quickly and firmly like 20 times in the centre-right and it would be fine again. I even thought I fixed this when I popped the central off, gave it a quick make clean, and popped it back on.
The problem I have at present is a lot worse. To assistance explicate it i'll ready a lilliputian scenario. Presume the keyboard is in it's two halves. There'due south the pinnacle one-half which houses all the keys & LCD brandish, and the bottom half which has the silicon (is it silicon) pad which the keys printing onto. When I place the top (keys) half back onto the bottom (silicon) half, and snap it into place, the keys all sit in the right 'up' position - including the spacebar. Merely unlike the rest of the keys, if I push the space bar downwardly, it stays down and won't come back up. Unless I pop it back up manually, and and so it stays until I printing it again.
Here'due south some more than info I tin can give - Both the 'latches' (for lack of a better word) that concord the metal bar in place are still in tact and solid. All of the clips on the bottom are nonetheless fine and working. Nothing is noticably broken on it. From looking around online, i've only really establish two 'possible' problems/solutions.
i. Apparently if something on the inside is even slightly out of place, you tin can get problems with your space bar. By looking down the pigsty that goes onto the silicon pad, it looks like the center of the pad may be SLIGHTLY out of place, just I don't even know if this is what the posting person was referring to.
2. The square scrap on the bottom of the key that locks information technology in and presses on the silicon pad has cracked or warped slightly, so it sticks out more on one side and makes the fundamental stick downwardly.
And so i'm at a bit of a loss equally to what to exercise hither, whatever assist or communication would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Seltox
#2
Posted 02 September 2010 - 01:45 PM
I wasn't able to notice the schematics online but a lot of space-confined are either spring loaded, probably merely a rubber cup. Or they have a metal bar that keeps them aligned in their spot. Make certain that if you lot have a metal bar under your spacebar you get it dorsum in the slot correctly. It may just click in information technology's spot by itself. I wish I had images of the associates but I can't discover them. I am considering the G15 as my next keyboard buy.
#3
Posted 02 September 2010 - 02:17 PM
Information technology has a metallic bar nether the fundamental, and it's in identify properly. I'll run across if I tin can take a few quick pictures to evidence what it's similar. Gimme a scrap. I've got to notice my camera!
#4
Posted 02 September 2010 - 02:21 PM
Hmmm...I've taken apart a few keyboards in my time. A good shut-up photograph of the underside of the key & the empty spot in the keyboard where it goes would be adept.
Edited by Magnificent Exploding Head, 02 September 2010 - 02:24 PM.
#5
Posted 02 September 2010 - 02:28 PM
Alright, one of these is the underside of the primal, and where it goes - pitiful if it's not also articulate. I can take another if necessary.
The second one shows something I forgot to mention in the commencement mail service. In the 2nd photo, information technology's only the 'top half' of the kayboard, so the keys should just drib freely whichever way gravity takes them. If I manually push the spacebar up, information technology stays there (pictured) when all of the other keys just driblet dorsum downwardly equally they should. That could be useful info.
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#half-dozen
Posted 02 September 2010 - 02:46 PM
If I manually push the spacebar up, it stays there (pictured) when all of the other keys only drop back down equally they should. That could exist useful info.
Aye. I remember that may be the problem. If the primal is stiff enough to stay up, it's probably stiff plenty to stay down, too.
It might only be getting stuck on something else. If yous can figure out what it's getting stuck on & clear it out that might solve the problem.
If it at that place isn't anything else in the way, then the stiffness might exist in the peg things on the bottom of the central.
Hmm... are you lot certain that you put the key back on "frontways". Some spacebars look symetrical on height, but the clips on the pegs may not be. If it'southward put on backwards the clips might stick inside the holes they get in, intead of moving freely..
Try turning it 180 ( if information technology volition go in that way)and meet if that frees the movement.
#7
Posted 02 September 2010 - 02:l PM
Likewise. Where do the bent ends of the metallic bar get? Is there anything that holds them in place in the keyboard spot?
#8
Posted 02 September 2010 - 03:07 PM
In the picture with the bottom of the primal, and the slot information technology goes in, at the very left and correct of the slot is where the metal bar slides in. And i'm 97% sure it'due south in the correct way, beacuse the keys have a small grove on i side to show which way information technology's meant to get in, but i'll become see if it's possible to throw it in the other style simply to be sure.
EDIT: Information technology wouldn't even get in the other way, and then i'k sure it was the correct way around. I'm starting to suspect it's the square fleck that goes in the hole and presses the pad. Mayhap i of the clips on that has started sticking out a little, merely I dunno how I could fix a problem like this.
Edited past Seltox, 02 September 2010 - 03:11 PM.
#ix
Posted 02 September 2010 - 03:46 PM
Well, if the metallic bar is in it'southward proper identify it should work.
I looked at the picture over again & it looks like you could curve the clips inward.
You might endeavor (carefully) trimming the clip with an exacto knife, but be careful not to trim off also much.
And, of form, exist careful with the knife!
If that doesn't work I don't know what will. Information technology just might non exist fixable.
If you tin't prepare the clip, I suggest finding out if you tin can get a replacement primal from Logitech.
Scrounging around garage sales & such for some other keyboard with a compatible spacebar is a bit of a longshot, but you lot could effort. Who knows? Y'all might at to the lowest degree find a working keyboard on the inexpensive.
Sorry, I tin't be of more than help. That'south just how life is sometimes though.
I spent most of my formative years taking things autonomously, & I know sometimes they just won't go back together right.
Good luck.
#ten
Posted 02 September 2010 - 03:52 PM
I've contacted Logitech in regards to run into if a replacement is possible - also included what my effect was to see if they had any ideas. We'll see how things get. Thanks for the advice you provided 
#xi
Posted 02 September 2010 - 06:18 PM
Alright, this is slightly embarassing, but I stock-still the trouble.
You know the metal bar on it? I was examining the spacebar and noticed that the ii outer sides stuck out a flake further than they should - it was then that I noticed that what I thought were just guides for information technology to sit in were actually clips. So I pushed the bar dorsum in and was greeted with that oh-so satisfying "click" sound. When I did information technology I was kind of similar "...I can't run into how that tiny amount if difference will change information technology that dramatically", simply it did.
The central is working perfectly now, and my keyboard feels like it was simply a month quondam!
Source: http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/topic/285702-cleaned-keyboard-spacebar-stuck
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