Mechanical keyboard Rapoo v500 cleaning notes

The original intention of the author is to clean up the malfunctioning mechanical keyboard in the case, the ancestral maintenance skills must not be lost, but it is not as simple as imagined...

The V500 of Rapoo in the early years is the entry-level model of mechanical keyboards. It is just over 100 yuan, but it can bring you the pleasure of mechanical paragraphs.

Screenshot of orders in 2017

V500 is a mechanical keyboard with green switches. It has a crisp sound and a strong sense of paragraph. It is more disturbing to use in the office, and it is suitable for use in Internet cafes. Although it is an entry-level model, it has a lot of weight. There is a thick iron plate in the middle, which really weighs the scale. It has been used intermittently for 5 years, which is basically enough. In addition, some keys failed in the early stage, so they were put on the shelf. When I was sorting out the sundries today, I wondered if the keys didn't work because of the dust? So cheap, started the weekend labor class

Happy big boys, the screwdriver is waiting, and the disassembly begins!

First start removing the keycaps

Keycaps all clear

After the keycaps were removed, I used the 2,000-day commemorative ultrasonic cleaner sent by my aunt to go through it. The sound was very refreshing, and there was a landscape painting scene like white smoke around the keyboard caps.

Please watch carefully for the dust details on the keyboard

The reverse side of the keyboard motherboard

If the front is directly exposed to the dust, I can understand, but how did these dirty marks on the back come from? incomprehensible.

The host is a row of jack interfaces with the keyboard case, and the real control logic circuit is in the hidden compartment of the case.

After cleaning the keycaps, let them dry again, and then start to clean the back of the backboard. The alcohol wipes are clean, but a lot of fibers are left.

Next, clean up the frontal main battlefield.

Blow with a hair dryer after cleaning

Neat and beautiful

Cleaned everything up and started assembling. At this step, the painting style becomes a labor class. The protagonists are played by the underage children in the family.

This is the assembled state, basically the same as the new one

However, then... After testing on the computer, I found that there were a few more insensitive keys than before, which completely declared the end of life of this keyboard. It seems that if you want to restore the original appearance, you have to touch this five-year-old kid The soldering iron is gone.