I have a flaky keyboard key

[ubuysa]

I have a Corsair K70, which has served me well for over a year. In the last few days one of the keys has become intermittently unresponsive. It's the full stop/period key so it's kind of important. If I hit it fairly hard it works every time, but if I use a normal touch it fails to input about 40% of the time.

Is there any special cleaning stuff I can spray in that key to fix this, or am I looking at trying to replace the key?

 

[SpyderTracks]

I have a Corsair K70, which has served me well for over a year. In the last few days one of the keys has become intermittently unresponsive. It's the full stop/period key so it's kind of important. If I hit it fairly hard it works every time, but if I use a normal touch it fails to input about 40% of the time.

Is there any special cleaning stuff I can spray in that key to fix this, or am I looking at trying to replace the key?

You can remove the caps on the Corsair keyboards a factually replace the individual switch if you find it's that that's problematic. It's a bit fiddly but quite fun of you're used to a soldering iron

But to clean it, if you remove the key cap, you may get lucky and it's just a bit of dirt

You can use isopropyl alcohol with a microfiber cloth to clean the switch

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[ubuysa]

Thanks for this, but that's what I was trying to avoid. I am well used to soldering small parts on circuit boards but I'm not sure I want to be bothered. I was hoping there might be some magic contact cleaner spray that I could spray in there.....?

I'm going to be replacing the PC next year (delayed from this year) and I'll probably just buy a new keyboard as well.

 

[SpyderTracks]

Thanks for this, but that's what I was trying to avoid. I am well used to soldering small parts on circuit boards but I'm not sure I want to be bothered. I was hoping there might be some magic contact cleaner spray that I could spray in there.....?

I'm going to be replacing the PC next year (delayed from this year) and I'll probably just buy a new keyboard as well.

Yeah, totally get that.

If you get a replacement keyboard, a lot of the new ones have properly replaceable hot swappable switches, like Duckys or Wootings.

It's become much more standardised now, although not so much on the major brands I think.

 

[ubuysa]

UPDATE.

The key is now working normally. We have problems with dust from a building site across the road, so I removed the key cap and gave the key itself a good blow out. Fixed!