With the generous help by the guys at overclock.net, I managed with little to no experience to successfully replace the faulty switch on my Das Keyboard.

Here's the infamous cherry blue and its respective components.


And the tools I used (from left to right)


A Russian(?) soldering flux, a REALLY old 100W soldering gun, some solder and a screwdriver (for opening the keyboard up and removing the melted alloy)

I rarely if ever use the scoll lock key, so I was like fuck it, I'll just swap it with the faulty one, maybe a temporary makeshift fix, I'll see where this takes me.


I used the gun and de-soldered the B and C parts, the encircled A part is what caused me some problems - it's trapezoid shaped and doesn't jump out nicely.

I know, I've burnt it like hell, I'm new to this shut up, I'll get it in time.

I used some solder and popped the scrlk switch onto the faulty S switch. Instead of a drop-like shape, I got a spherical masterpiece which I'm incredibly proud of.


And here it is, fully functional (well, minus the scroll key) in all it's glory. It needs a bit of a cleanup though.



The reason why I "documented" this is because I encourage laymen to give this a shot, even if they're not extremely skilled at soldering.